Resources

Potential textbooks

• Chemistry 2e, an OpenStax resource.
• General Chemistry, The Essential Concepts, 7th ed., by Chang and Goldsby.
• Chemistry, The Central Science, 14th ed., by Brown, LeMay, et. al.

Supplimental open source textbooks

• Introductory Chemistry, David W. Ball of Cleveland State University. This textbook is more fundamental. It does not cover chemical kinetics, thermaldynamics, etc. However, this textbook explains some fundamental concepts in more details. For example, the first two chapters cover a lot pre-colledge knowledge. If you forgot some of the topics, this textbook can help to remind yourself.

Additional resources could be found here:

https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/General_Chemistry.

Table of Content

• Ch01. Introduction
• Ch02. Atoms, Molecules and Ions
• Ch03. Stoichiometry
• Ch04. Reactions in Aqueous Solutions
• Ch05. Gases
• Ch06. Energy Relationships in Chemical Reactions
• Ch07. The Electronic Structure of Atoms
• Ch08. The Periodic Table
• Ch09. Chemical Bonding I: The Covalent Bond
• Ch10. Chemical Bonding II: Molecular Geometry and Hybridization of Atomic Orbitals
• Ch12. Intermolecular Forces and Liquids and Solids
• Ch13. Physical Properties of Solutions
• Ch14. Chemical Kinetics
• Ch15. Chemical Equilibrium
• Ch16. Acids and Bases
• Ch17. Acid-base Equilibria and Solubility Equilibria
• Ch18. Thermodynamics
• Ch19. Redox Reactions and Electrochemistry
• Ch21. Nuclear Chemistry

Notes:

• The outline of this study guide follows Chang’s textbook. Chapter 11 Introduction to Organic Chemistry, Chapter 20 The Chemistry of Coordination Compounds and Chapter 22 Organic Polymers - Synthetic and Natural are not covered. The locations of each topic in OpenStax and Brown’s textbooks are given under the titles. The materials, mainly the figures and the questions, are adapted from wikipedia, OpenStax, and other open resources.

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