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Exploring Chemistry
First Edition| ©2012 Matthew Johll
Matthew Johll’s Exploring Chemistry overs the standard topics for the nonmajors course in the typical order, but each chapter unfolds in the context of a single case study that helps students connect what they are learning to real-life situations. For example, students work through t...
Matthew Johll’s Exploring Chemistry overs the standard topics for the nonmajors course in the typical order, but each chapter unfolds in the context of a single case study that helps students connect what they are learning to real-life situations. For example, students work through the often-difficult topics of molecular structure, gas laws, and organic chemistry by learning about the development of powerful new chemotherapy drugs, new technologies for screening airline passengers, and the creation of biodegradable biopolymers. It's the same same case-driven approach that Johll uses in his acclaimed Investigating Chemistry (now in its Third Edition) but Exploring Chemistry goes beyond the other book's specific focus on examples from forensic science to use real-life stories from cooking, athletics, genetics, green chemistry, and more.
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Matthew Johll’s Exploring Chemistry overs the standard topics for the nonmajors course in the typical order, but each chapter unfolds in the context of a single case study that helps students connect what they are learning to real-life situations. For example, students work through the often-difficult topics of molecular structure, gas laws, and organic chemistry by learning about the development of powerful new chemotherapy drugs, new technologies for screening airline passengers, and the creation of biodegradable biopolymers. It's the same same case-driven approach that Johll uses in his acclaimed Investigating Chemistry (now in its Third Edition) but Exploring Chemistry goes beyond the other book's specific focus on examples from forensic science to use real-life stories from cooking, athletics, genetics, green chemistry, and more.
Features
- Chapter 1: Exploring Our Water Supply
- Chapter 2: Exploring Evidence from a Crime Scene
- Chapter 3: Exploring Historical Climate Change
- Chapter 4: Investigating the Chemistry of a Poison
- Chapter 5: Exploring Chemotherapy Drugs
- Chapter 6: Exploring Chemistry in the Kitchen
- Chapter 7: Exploring Antibiotics and Drug-Resistant Infections Antibiotics
- Chapter 8: Exploring Biodegradable Polymers
- Chapter 9: Investigating the Chemistry of Fire and Arson
- Chapter 10: Exploring Airport Security
- Chapter 11: Exploring Green Chemistry
- Chapter 12: Exploring Nuclear Power
- Chapter 13: Exploring Athletic Performance
- Chapter 14: Exploring Genetically Modified Food
Detailed Worked Examples Paired with Practice Problems give students a helpful step-by-step roadmap for problem solving, including the “simple” (often algebraic) steps left out of many textbooks. A practice problem follows each worked example, so students can check their understanding immediately.
In the Lab boxes illustrate the key investigative tools in chemistry, showing students how chemists use modern equipment, laboratory techniques, and analytical methods to examine samples of interest.
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Exploring Chemistry
First Edition| ©2012
Matthew Johll
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Exploring Chemistry
First Edition| 2012
Matthew Johll
Table of Contents
Case Study: Exploring Our Water Supply
1.1 Welcome
1.2 Chemistry, the Global Society, and You
1.3 Matter and Its Forms
1.4 The Periodic Table
In the Lab: Thin-Layer Chromatography
1.5 Learning the Language of Chemistry
1.6 The Most Important Skill of a Scientist: Observation
1.7 Critical Thinking and the Scientific Method
1.8 Case Study Finale: Exploring Our Water Supply
Case Study: Exploring Evidence from a Crime Scene
2.1 Reactions, Properties, and Changes
2.2 Mass, Weight, and Units
2.3 Mathematics of Unit Conversions
2.4 Errors and Estimates in Laboratory Measurements: Significant Figures
2.5 Mathematics of Significant Figure Calculations
2.6 Experimental Results: Accuracy and Precision
2.7 Density Measurements
2.8 Mathematics of Density Measurements
2.9 How to Analyze Glass and Soil: Using Physical Properties
2.10 Case Study Finale: Exploring Evidence from a Crime Scene
Case Study: Exploring Historical Climate Change
3.1 Origins of the Atomic Theory: Ancient Greek Philosophers
3.2 Foundations of a Modern Atomic Theory
3.3 Dalton’s Atomic Theory
3.4 Atomic Structure: Subatomic Particles
3.5 Nature’s Detectives: Isotopes
3.6 Atomic Mass: Isotopic Abundance and the Periodic Table
3.7 Mathematics of Isotopic Abundance and Atomic Mass
3.8 Atomic Structure: Electrons and Emission Spectra
3.9 Mathematics of Light
3.10 Atomic Structure: Electron Orbitals
3.11 Electron Configurations
In the Lab: Scanning Electron Microscopy
3.12 Case Study Finale: Exploring Historical Climate Change
Case Study: Exploring the Chemistry of a Poison
4.1 Regions of the Periodic Table
4.2 Types of Compounds: Covalent Compounds
4.3 Types of Compounds: Ionic Compounds
4.4 Common Names and Diatomic Elements
4.5 Basics of Chemical Reactions
4.6 Balancing Chemical Equations
4.7 Mathematics of Chemical Reactions: Mole Calculations
4.8 Mathematics of Chemical Reactions: Stoichiometry Calculations
4.9 Types of Reactions
4.10 Mathematics of Chemical Reactions: Limiting Reactants and Theoretical
Yields
In the Lab: Spectrophotometry
4.11 Case Study Finale: Exploring the Chemistry of a Poison
Case Study: Exploring Chemotherapy Drugs
5.1 Nature of Covalent Bonds
5.2 Lewis Structures of Ionic Compounds
5.3 Lewis Structures of Covalent Compounds
5.4 Resonance Structures
5.5 VSEPR Theory
5.6 Polarity of Bonds and Molecules
5.7 Molecular Geometry of Fats and Oils
5.8 Drug Receptors and Brain Chemistry
In the Lab: Immunoassay Methods
5.9 Case Study Finale: Exploring Chemotherapy Drugs
Case Study: Exploring Chemistry in the Kitchen
6.1 Aqueous Solutions
6.2 Solution Properties
6.3 Solubility
6.4 Mathematics of Solutions: Concentration Calculations
6.5 Acid Chemistry
6.6 Base Chemistry
6.7 Neutralization Reactions
6.8 The pH Scale and Buffers
6.9 Mathematics of Solutions: Calculating pH
6.10 Net Ionic Reactions
6.11 Case Study Finale: Exploring Chemistry in the Kitchen
Case Study: Exploring Antibiotics and Drug-Resistant Infections
7.1 Intermolecular Forces and Surface Tension
7.2 Types of Intermolecular Forces
7.3 Mixed Intermolecular Forces
7.4 The Process of Dissolution
7.5 Rate of Dissolving Soluble Compounds
7.6 Colligative Properties: Boiling Point of Solutions
7.7 Mathematics of Boiling Point Elevation
7.8 Colligative Properties: Freezing Point of Solutions
7.9 Mathematics of Freezing Point Depression
7.10 Colligative Properties: Osmosis
7.11 Mathematics of Osmotic Pressure
In the Lab: HPLC 208
7.12 Case Study Finale: Exploring Antibiotics and Drug-Resistant Infections
Case Study: Exploring Biodegradable Polymers
8.1 Introduction to Organic Chemistry
8.2 Alkanes
8.3 Alkenes and Alkynes
8.4 Branched Isomers
8.5 Cyclic Compounds
8.6 Ethers, Ketones, and Esters
8.7 Amines
8.8 Alcohols, Aldehydes, and Carboxylic Acids
8.9 How to Extract Organic Compounds: Solubility and Acid–Base Properties
In the Lab: Infrared Spectroscopy
8.10 Case Study Finale: Exploring Biodegradable Polymers
Case Study: Exploring the Chemistry of Fire and Arson
9.1 The Chemistry of Fire
9.2 Combustion Reactions
9.3 Redox Reactions
9.4 Thermochemistry of Fire
9.5 Heat Capacity and Phase Changes
9.6 Mathematics of Heat Capacity
9.7 The First Law of Thermodynamics and Calorimetry
9.8 Mathematics of Calorimetry
9.9 Petroleum Refinement
In The Lab: Gas Chromatography
9.10 Case Study Finale: Exploring the Chemistry of Fire and Arson
Case Study: Exploring Airport Security
10.1 Explosives 101
10.2 Redox Chemistry of Explosives
10.3 Kinetic-Molecular Theory of Gases
10.4 Gas Laws
10.5 Mathematics of the Gas Laws
10.6 The Combined and Ideal Gas Laws
10.7 Mathematics of the Combined and Ideal Gas Laws
10.8 Mathematics of Advanced Ideal Gas Law Problems
10.9 Detection of Explosives: Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures
In the Lab: Mass Spectroscopy
10.10 Case Study Finale: Exploring Airport Security
Case Study: Investigating Green Chemistry
11.1 Introduction to Chemical Kinetics
11.2 Collision Theory
11.3 Kinetics and Temperature
11.4 Kinetics and Catalysts
11.5 Zero-Order Reactions
11.6 First-Order Reactions
11.7 Half-Life
11.8 Case Study Finale: Investigating Green Chemistry
Case Study: Exploring Nuclear Power
12.1 The Discovery of Natural Radioactivity
12.2 Radiation Types and Hazards
12.3 Balancing Nuclear Equations
12.4 Half-Lives and Risk Assessment
12.5 Medical Applications of Nuclear Isotopes
12.6 Investigative Application of Carbon-14
12.7 Nuclear Power
12.8 Military Uses of Nuclear Isotopes
12.9 Nuclear Transmutations
12.10 Nuclear Terrorism
In the Lab: Neutron Activation Analysis
12.11 Case Study Finale: Exploring Nuclear Power
Case Study: Exploring Athletic Performance
13.1 Chemical Equilibrium
13.2 Dynamic Equilibrium
13.3 Values of the Equilibrium Constant
13.4 Le Chatelier’s Principle
13.5 Solubility Equilibrium
13.6 Mathematics of Equilibrium
13.7 Chemistry of Poisons
13.8 Case Study Finale: Exploring Athletic Performance
Case Study: Exploring Genetically Modified Food
14.1 Lipids: Fats, Waxes, and Oils
14.2 Carbohydrates
14.3 Proteins
14.4 DNA Basics
14.5 DNA Analysis
14.6 Mitochondrial DNA
14.7 Genetic Genealogy
14.8 Case Study Finale: Exploring Genetically Modified Food
Authors

Matthew Johll
Dr. Matthew Johll is Professor of Chemistry and Adjunct Professor of Forensic Science at Illinois Valley Community College, where he teaches introductory and general chemistry courses. Dr. Johll received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, and his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Iowa State University. In addition to his twenty years of teaching, he has also served as an expert witness/consultant for several murder cases in the United Kingdom, including a BBC investigation into a serial killer. He has also consulted on a Jane Doe case in central Illinois, in which new scientific methods are being employed to identify the victim. When he is not writing, editing, grading, or teaching, he can be found camping with his three sons and serving as Scoutmaster for their Boy Scout troop. He was recently honored with the National Outstanding Eagle Scout award for his professional achievements.
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