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1.1: Essential Ideas of Chemistry
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Most everything you do and encounter during your day involves chemistry. Making coffee, cooking eggs, and toasting bread involve chemistry. The products you use—like soap and shampoo, the fabrics you wear, the electronics that keep you connected to your world, the gasoline that propels your car—all of these and more involve chemical substances and processes. Whether you are aware or not, chemistry is part of your everyday world.
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1.2: Atoms, Molecules, and Ions
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This chapter will describe some of the fundamental chemical principles related to the composition of matter, including those central to the concept of molecular identity.
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1.3: Composition of Substances and Solutions
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Quantitative aspects of the composition of substances and mixtures are the subject of this chapter.
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1.4: Stoichiometry of Chemical Reactions
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This chapter will describe how to symbolize chemical reactions using chemical equations, how to classify some common chemical reactions by identifying patterns of reactivity, and how to determine the quantitative relations between the amounts of substances involved in chemical reactions—that is, the reaction stoichiometry.
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