📘 How the book is laid out. There are 21 chapters in two parts. General Chemistry 1 runs from chapter 1 to chapter 11. General Chemistry 2 runs from chapter 12 to chapter 21. Each chapter has six sections, four or more figures drawn for it, a worked example wherever there is math, a glossary and twelve check-yourself items. Each of the six sections has its own interactive built into the page.
General Chemistry 1
Chapters 1 to 11Essential Ideas
Matter, measurement and the language of chemistry.
Atoms, Molecules and Ions
What everything is built from, and how we name it.
Composition of Substances and Solutions
Counting atoms by weighing them.
Stoichiometry of Chemical Reactions
Equations that balance, and what they let you predict.
Thermochemistry
Where the energy in a reaction goes.
Electronic Structure and Periodic Properties
Where the electrons live, and why that sets the table.
Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry
How atoms join, and the shapes that result.
Advanced Theories of Covalent Bonding
Orbitals that overlap, mix and spread out.
Gases
The state we can predict with one equation.
Liquids and Solids
What holds condensed matter together.
Solutions and Colloids
Mixtures that behave like one substance.
General Chemistry 2
Chapters 12 to 21Kinetics
How fast a reaction runs, and what controls it.
Fundamental Equilibrium Concepts
Reactions that run both ways at once.
Acid-Base Equilibria
Protons on the move.
Equilibria of Other Reaction Classes
Solubility, complex ions and coupled systems.
Thermodynamics
Which way a change goes on its own.
Electrochemistry
Chemistry that moves electrons through a wire.
Representative Metals, Metalloids and Nonmetals
The main groups, group by group.
Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry
The d-block, its colors and its complexes.
Organic Chemistry
Carbon, and the families it builds.
Nuclear Chemistry
Changes inside the nucleus.