About Introduction to Chemistry

Introduction to Chemistry is designed for a one-term (10 week) stand-alone chemistry course. As such, this textbook provides an important opportunity for students in a short course to learn some core concepts of chemistry and apply those concepts to their lives. The text presupposes no prior knowledge of chemistry, and a minimal mathematical background. As an Open Educational Resource (OER) text, Introduction to Chemistry can be customized by interested instructors in order to adapt it into a form that works for their classroom. The origin of this text is from just such a process: Introductory Chemistry is a modification of CHEM 1114 – Introduction to Chemistry from UBC in Victoria, CN, which is itself a modification of other OER texts.

Coverage and Scope
This textbook adheres to the scope and sequence of many one-term stand-alone general chemistry courses. We strive to make the discipline of chemistry interesting and accessible to students who may come to the course with little experience or developed interest in chemistry. With this audience in mind, the textbook has been structured and organized to provide a logical progression of the most fundamental concepts. Topics are connected to common contexts, are presented with opportunities for extension of learning to new and more challenging contexts, and are reinforced as the book progresses.

The book maintains a comprehensive set of artistic and visual resources from earlier iterations (e.g. CH1114 Introductory Chemistry). End of chapter problems and limited solutions are included.

Curation
To broaden access and encourage community curation, Introductory Chemistry  is “open source” licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC-BYNCSA) license. The academic science community is invited to submit examples, emerging research, and other feedback to enhance and strengthen the material and keep it current and relevant for today’s students.

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Introduction to Chemistry Copyright © 2020 by Carol Higginbotham is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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