Chemistry: The Awesomest Science

After a long time in the works, I’m happy to announce the first installments in my middle school physical science textbook named Physical Science: A Smorgasbord of Knowledge. Though it’s still a work in progress, new chapters will appear as fast as I can write them. If you’re looking for a high school chemistry text instead, try my other text Chemistry: The Awesomest Science.

As always, if you find mistakes in any of these chapters, please email me at misterguch@chemfiesta.com so I can fix them. Enjoy the book! (Updated 10/4/16)

Introduction: (.odt format)(.pdf format)
Chapter 1: What is Science? (odt format)(.pdf format) What is science? Scientific disciplines, scientific method, SI units, data collection and presentation, graphing.
Chapter 2: The Care and Feeding of Matter (.odt format)(.pdf format). Elements, compounds, mixtures, chemical/physical properties and changes.
Chapter 3: Solids, Liquids, and Gases (.odt format)(.pdf format) Intro to the states of matter, intermolecular forces, phase changes, and gas laws.
Chapter 4: Atoms: Our Very Tiny Friends (.odt format)(.pdf format) Models of the atom from the earliest Greek models through quantum mechanics.
Chapter 5: The Periodic table (.odt format)(.pdf format) Everything you want to know about the periodic table, metals/nonmetals/metalloids, and so forth.
Chapter 6: Chemical Bonding (.odt format)(.pdf format) Ionic, covalent, and metallic bonding. Naming compounds.
Chapter 7: The Magic of Chemical Reactions (.odt format)(.pdf format) Equations, moles, stoichiometry, thermodynamics, kinetics, equilibria.
Chapter 8: Solutions, Acids, and Bases (.odt format)(.pdf format) Definitions of each, concentration, pH, neutralization reactions.
Chapter 9: Organic Chemistry (.odt format)(.pdf format) Definitions, some common organic compounds, intro to biochemistry, food labeling.
Chapter 10: Nukes (.odt format)(.pdf format) Radiation, half-life, carbon dating, fission and fusion.

For those of you interested in seeing what’s on the way, here’s the status of the rest of the book as of 10/4/16:

Chapter 11: Moving around. Introduction to speed/velocity/acceleration. Status: Written, awaits editing.
Chapter 12: Force and Newton’s Laws. Newton’s laws, forces. Status: Written, awaits editing.
Chapter 13: Fluids. Forces in air and water. Status: Planning stage.
Chapter 14: Work and power. Work, power, machines, mechanical advantage. Status: Planning stage.
Chapter 15: Energy (again). More complete discussion of energy conversion and law of conservation of energy than in chapter 7. Status: Planning stage.
Chapter 16: Getting Hot in Here! Heat in thermodynamics. Status: Planning stage.
Chapter 17: Ride the Wave. Mechanical and sound waves. Status: Planning Stage.
Chapter 18: Electromagnetic Fun! EM waves, light, color. Status: Planning Stage.
Chapter 19: Taking a Look at Optics. Optics. Status: Planning stage.
Chapter 20: Zap! Electricity in action! Electricity and circuits. Status: Planning stage.
Chapter 21: The Magic of Magnets. Electromagnetism. Status: Planning.
Chapter 22: I Am Earth’s Guts. The stuff under the earth. Status: Planning.
Chapter 23: I Am Earth’s Skin. The geology of the surface of earth. Status: Planning.
Chapter 24: The Weather Blows. Climate, seasons, water cycle, etc. Status: Planning.
Chapter 25: Earth’s Neighborhood. The solar system. Status: Planning.
Chapter 26: Taking a Long Trip. The Universe. Status: Planning.

Other information: The book, like most things I’ve written lately, is licensed via Creative Commons CC-BY-NA 4.0 license. Feel free to use it without asking, but don’t sell it!