Versions of An Introduction to Chemistry by Mark Bishop
There are two
versions of my text.
Click here for a description of their similarities and
differences.
Atoms-First
Version
Atoms-First Table of
Contents
Atoms-First Preface
Chemistry-First Version
Chemistry-First Table of Contents
Chemistry-First Preface
The two
versions of An Introduction to Chemistry present the same
information, but they do it in a different order.
Many instructors
like getting to chemical reactions early, and students like
postponing the math-related topics of chemistry. To make this
possible, the chemistry-first version postpones the math
topics until mid-book (Chapters 8, 9, 10, and 13 mostly),
presents a brief introduction of atomic theory and bonding early
(Chapters 2 and 3) that is completed later (Chapters 11 and 12),
and gets to chemical changes earlier than other texts (Chapters
4-6). (Chapter 8 on unit conversions was written so it could be
presented early...after Chapter 1.) You can get more information
on this version from its preface and table of contents.
http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Preface.pdf
http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_TOC.pdf
Many instructors and
students prefer to move from simple to more complex...atoms to
elements to bonding to compounds to chemical changes...in a more
systematic way. The atoms-first version provides a more
complete description of atomic theory and bonding early
(Chapters 3-5) and describes chemical reactions later (Chapters
7-9). It also presents the math-related topics earlier. It has
two fewer chapters because the chemistry-first version's chapter
on energy was separated into parts and put into two other
chapters, and a similar thing was done with the chemistry-first
chapter on mole calculations dealing with chemical formulas.
You can read more about the atoms-first version at
http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Preface_atoms.pdf
http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Book_atoms_TOC.pdf
You can see the
complete books and their tools at
http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Chemistry_First.htm
http://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_Atoms_First.htm
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