Edited 12-19-23
So often, introductory chemistry textbooks aren’t helpful. They’re boring, they’re confusing, and they contain a lot of extra bonus “features” that distract and annoy the reader. This textbook, Chemistry: The Awesomest Science, is designed as a replacement for these textbooks. Whether or not you end up using it with your class, hopefully it will give them an alternative to the usual corporate textbook nonsense.
If you’ve got middle school students, you may prefer the in-progress textbook “Physical Science: A Smorgasbord of Knowledge“, which can be accessed HERE.
Chemistry: The Awesomest Science:
- About This Book: Read First
- Chapter 1: The scientific method and safety and stuff
- Chapter 2: Takin’ Data (units, conversions, sig figs, precision/accuracy)
- Chapter 3: Elements and Properties and Stuff
- Chapter 4: Old Models of the Atom (Greek, Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford)
- Chapter 5: Light, Bohr, and the Quantum Model
- Chapter 6: The Periodic Table and Periodic Trends
- Chapter 7: The Groups and Regions of the Periodic Table
- Chapter 8: Ionic Compounds and Metals
- Chapter 9: Covalent Compounds
- Chapter 10: Blowing Stuff Up: The Story of Chemical Reactions
- Chapter 11: The Mole – Not Just a Defective Rat Anymore
- Chapter 12: Stoichiometry – Fun to Say, Fun to Do
- Chapter 13: Solids, Liquids, and Gases
- Chapter 14: Let Loose the Gases!
- Chapter 15: The Solutions to All of Your Problems
- Chapter 16: Thermodynamics for the Truly Lazy
- Chapter 17: Kinetics
- Chapter 18: Don’t Drop the Acid: Acids and Bases
- Appendix
If you’d prefer to see this book in a editable document format, you can download the chapters here by clicking the links below.
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Appendix1
I don’t claim that this book is perfect. But it’s the book I would have wanted as a young chemistry student. Hopefully, you’ll find it to be the same.
Happy reading!
Ian Guch