Dr. James Spencer is a professor of chemistry at Franklin and Marshall College. He has received a number of awards and commendations including the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, Bradley R. Dewey Award for Outstanding Scholarship, and the Chemical Manufacturers Association National Award for Teaching. Dr. Spencer was a founding member of the Council on Undergraduate Research, a national organization dedicated to promoting research in all disciplines by undergraduates. He was appointed chair of the ACS Task Force on the General Chemistry Curriculum, served as a member and chair of the Advanced Placement Chemistry Committee and now chairs the Advanced Placement Redesign Panel for Chemistry.
1. Elements and Compounds. 2. The Mole: The Link Between the Macroscopic and the Atomic World of Chemistry.
3. The Structure of the Atom.
4. The Covalent Bond.
5. Ionic and Metallic Bonds.
6. Gases.
7. Making and Breaking of Bonds.
8. Liquids and Solutions.
9. Solids.
10. An Introduction to Kinetics and Equilibrium.
11. Acids and Bases.
12. Oxidation-Reduction Reactions.
13. Chemical Thermodynamics.
14. Kinetics.
15. Chemical Analysis.
Appendix A: systems of Units.
Appendix B: Values of Selected Fundamental Constants, B-2.
Appendix C: Answers to Selected Core Problems.
Appendix D: Checkpoint Answers.
Photo Credits.
Index.
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