High School Chemistry

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Essential Ideas
• Chapter 2: Atoms, Molecules, and Ions
• Chapter 3: Electronic Structure and Periodic Properties of Elements
• Chapter 4: Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry
• Chapter 5: Advanced Theories of Bonding
• Chapter 6: Composition of Substances and Solutions
• Chapter 7: Stoichiometry of Chemical Reactions
• Chapter 8: Gases
• Chapter 9: Thermochemistry
• Chapter 10: Liquids and Solids
• Chapter 11: Solutions and Colloids
• Chapter 12: Thermodynamics
• Chapter 13: Fundamental Equilibrium Concepts
• Chapter 14: Acid-Base Equilibria
• Chapter 15: Equilibria of Other Reaction Classes
• Chapter 16: Electrochemistry
• Chapter 17: Kinetics
• Chapter 18: Representative Metals, Metalloids, and Nonmetals
• Chapter 19: Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry
• Chapter 20: Nuclear Chemistry
• Chapter 21: Organic Chemistry
• The Periodic Table
• Essential Mathematics
• Units and Conversion Factors
• Fundamental Physical Constants
• Water Properties
• Composition of Commercial Acids and Bases
• Standard Thermodynamic Properties for Selected Substances
• Ionization Constants of Weak Acids
• Ionization Constants of Weak Bases
• Solubility Products
• Formation Constants for Complex Ions
• Standard Electrode (Half-Cell) Potentials
• Half-Lives for Several Radioactive Isotopes
• Chapter 22: Answer Key

About the Book

Chemistry: Atoms First 2e is a peer-reviewed, openly licensed introductory textbook produced through a collaborative publishing partnership between OpenStax and the University of Connecticut and UConn Undergraduate Student Government Association.

first, it introduces atomic and molecular structure much earlier than the traditional approach, and it threads these themes through subsequent chapters. This approach may be chosen as a way to delay the introduction of material such as stoichiometry that students traditionally find abstract and difficult, thereby allowing students time to acclimate their study skills to chemistry. Additionally, it gives students a basis for understanding the application of quantitative principles to the chemistry that underlies the entire course. It also aims to center the study of chemistry on the atomic foundation that many will expand upon in a later course covering organic chemistry, easing that transition when the time arrives.