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Tour of the Internet Version of Mark Bishop's An Introduction to Chemistry Text and Tools

This page provides a tour of the Internet-based version of my preparatory chemistry textbook, An Introduction to Chemistry, first published by Benjamin Cummings in 2002. The text was written for students who want to prepare themselves for general college chemistry, for students seeking to satisfy a science requirement for graduation, and for students in health-related or other programs that require a one-semester introduction to general chemistry.

There are two versions of my text. The new atoms-first version provides a more complete description of atomic theory, chemical bonding, and chemical calculations early. The chemistry-first version has a early emphasis on descriptions of the structure of matter and the nature of chemical changes, postponing the description of unit conversions and chemical calculations.

Atoms-First Version

Atoms-First Table of Contents

Atoms-First Preface

Chemistry-First Version

Chemistry-First Table of Contents

Chemistry-First Preface

The tabs above and the buttons to the left will take you to the web pages that provide links to each version of the text and to their tools. To see examples of the text chapters and their supporting materials, you can click on the links below.

The Internet chapters for the text have all of the usual components of a printed text and more. For example, there are hyperlinks found in grey boxes that take the reader to supporting computer tools. You can see an example chapter at

http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Book_5_eBook.pdf

There is an audio version of the text at

http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Audio_Book.htm

You can hear an example at

http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Section_5_1.htm

Each chapter has an accompanying study guide chapter that presents a variety of tools to help students, including answers to half of the end-of-chapter problems.

http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Study_Guide_5.pdf

There are Shockwave animations that support many of of the topics in the text. These are meant to help the viewer to develop a better mental image of the particle nature of matter.

http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Neut_frames.htm

Shockwave tutorials allow students to practice some of the skills described in the text.

http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_acid_base_frames.htm

Because of the large quantity of information presented in the typical preparatory chemistry class, it's important that students study efficiently. I help them get organized by providing a study checklist for each chapter.

http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Chem_First_Checklist_5.htm

The Internet versions of my PowerPoint presentations can be useful to instructors in lecture, but they can also provide students with an overview of each chapter.

http://preparatorychemistry.com/5Bishop.pdf

Chapter maps provide a snapshot of the topics covered in each chapter and show how these topics are connected to topics in the same chapter and to topics in earlier chapters.

http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Chapter_Map_5.htm

All introductory classes present a lot of new language, and I think it's extremely important that students master new terms. For this reason, I provide a Shockwave tutorial for each of the chapter glossaries,

http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Glossary_5_frames.htm

Jmol structures provide another tool for developing students' ability to visualize the structure of matter.

http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Jmol_acids.htm

If you want to get more information about each version of the text, you can read their prefaces.

http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Preface.pdf

http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Preface_atoms.pdf

http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Preface_moved_8.pdf

You can see a description of the strengths of the text at

http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Chemistry_Strengths.htm

Thanks for the opportunity to share information about my work. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please feel free to send me an email.

Mark Bishop     markbishop@preparatorychemistry.com