The Chemistry of Everything
Kimberley Waldron

ISBN-10: 0130085227
ISBN-13: 9780130085221

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 672 pp
Published: 02/09/2006

Suggested retail price: $132.00
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For one-semester introductory chemistry courses for nonscience majors.

 

Through innovative themes and fascinating applications, the text provides an engaging introduction to chemistry for non-science majors. Chemistry content is blended with these compelling applications, striking an amazing balance.

How do students actually use a textbook?

 

Students don’t read their chemistry book as many authors intended.  Today’s student needs the author to make the topical coverage focused and keep the students interested throughout.

 

• Highly focused chapter content – Waldron has judiciously chosen which topics to cover in detail.  The title of each chapter is a unique one-word theme that is woven throughout the chapter and linked to compelling applications. There is a comprehensive list of specific chemistry topics covered in each chapter adjacent to the theme title

 

Who are the students in this course?  Given who they are and how much time you have, what is your educational objective in this course?

 

Students in this course may never take another science course.  One major course objective is helping them become scientifically literate so they can read the news and vote in a more informed way.

 

• Scientific literacy emphasis — Extends students’ vocabulary and knowledge of the scientific issues encountered in daily life via news reports, journal articles,and books.

What do you think your students are thinking on the first day of class?

 

Many students wonder why they’re taking chemistry at all.  If they are captured by interesting chemical examples, they’ll learn much more effectively.

 

• Broad range of applications – Woven into the text’s prose and sometimes in boxes, these spice up drier topics with creative contexts, such as studying metric units using a recipe for chocolate brownies (pg 23); the invention of bubblegum (pg 385); issues of ethics in contemporary science and responsible use of world resources; environmental issues; forensics; and compelling career stories of real scientists.

 

Do your students understand chemistry?

 

Many students memorize the material.  It’s critical to give them a conceptual understanding of it.

 

• Conceptualized approach — Visual art program and text together are seamlessly integrated to provide a  truly conceptual approach to understanding chemistry

The “Recurring Themes” thread fundamental chemical principles through the text through margin notes.

 

How can a book for this course help students solve problems?

 

Students are often anxious about having to solve problems.  A great book must be judicious about what to cover but provide enough depth for students to truly “get” how to solve problems.

 

• Balanced mathematics coverage — Includes just enough mathematics to understand basic chemical principles such as pH and unit conversions,and provides Problem Solving hints and examples to assist students with mathematical calculations. Two appendices provide supplemental math help, including a basic algebra review.

 

A complete and detailed instructor's manual, written by the author, is available to adopters.  Suggestions for using the text include several pre-planned pathways:

1)       emphasis on physical and inorganic chemistry

2)       emphasis on organic chemistry

3)       emphasis on biochemistry

4)       teaching a two-semester course

5)       teaching a course with an environmental emphasis

6)       teaching a course with a forensic emphasis

7)       sections that can be skipped

8)       sections that include mathematics

9)       sections that require mathematics

Chapter 1: Everything  

An Overview of the Composition of Matter and the Way that Scientists Study It.

1.1 Atoms—The Basis of Everything

1.2 Our First Chemical Reaction

1.3 A Peek Into Your Medicine Cabinet

1.4 Numbers in Science—SI Units and Conversion Factors

1.5 The Metric Epicurean

            Students Often Ask: What Is the Volume of One Drop?

1.6 Chemistry in the Limelight

Summary

Key Terms

Questions

WWW Resources

 

Chapter 2: Dirt

How Atoms Interact With One Another: An Introduction to Chemical Bonds and Simple Reactions

2.1 What is Dirt?

            Students Often Ask: How Much Gold Is Left In the Ground?

2.2 Why do Minerals Exist?

2.3 Why Neutrons Matter

2.4 Coming to Terms with the Very Large and the Very Small

2.5 Atmospheric Dirt: An Introduction to Redox Chemistry

2.6 Compass or Bacterium?

            Students Often Ask: Why are Gemstones Different Colors?

            Issues in Chemistry: The Dark Side of Chemicals: Asbestos and Baby Powder

2.7 Dirt as Forensic Evidence

Summary

Key Terms

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Chapter 3: Diamonds

An Examination of Carbon Allotropes, Covalent Bonding and the Structure of Simple Organic Molecules

3.1 Why is Carbon Special?

3.2 Do Diamonds Really Last Forever?

3.3 Graphite and the Multiple Bond

3.4 Buckyballs and the Concept of Resonance

3.5 Carbon Baguettes: The Development of Nanotubes

            Beyond the Ordinary: Nanoears

3.6 Organic Molecules and Electronic Bookkeeping

3.7 Molecules on Your Toothbrush

            Students Often Ask: What Makes New Cars Smell So Good?

3.8 Molecules in Three Dimensions

            Students Often Ask: When drawing an Electron Dot Structure for a Tetrahedral Molecule, Does It Matter Which Atom I Show at Which Vertex of the Tetrahedron?

3.9 Silicon: Carbon’s Big Sister

            Students Often Ask: Is a life form based on Silicon Rather than Carbon Possible?

Summary

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Chapter 4 Salt

The Study of the Behavior of Ions, Including Acids and Bases, and The Notion of Equilibrium

4.1 Ionic Liquid: A Contradiction in Terms

4.2 Egyptian Mummies and the Polyatomic Ion

4.3 Keeping Your Mummy Dry

4.4 Gatorade and the Chemistry of Electrolytes

            Students Often Ask: Is Fortified Water Useful for Ion Replacement or Is It Just Very Expensive Water?

4.5 Not Your Father’s Tomato

            Students Often Ask: How Do Home Water Purifiers Remove Ions ?

4.6 The Autoionization of Water

            Chemistry At The Crime Scene: Determining Time of Death

            Beyond the Ordinary: Polka Dotted Airplanes

4.7 Bad Air, Bad Water

Summary

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Chapter 5 Film

The Study of Light and How Electrons Respond to It

5.1 Electron Headquarters

5.2 Electrons on the Move

5.3 Smile! Electrons Moving Through Film

            Students Often Ask: How Do Photogray Sunglasses Turn Dark Outdoors?

5.4 More Rambling Electrons: Electrochemical Cells

5.5 Working Batteries

            Students Often Ask: Do Electric Eels Really Have Electricity In Them?

5.6 Electron Movement in Organic Molecules: Free Radicals

            Students Often Ask: Why does some fruit turn brown when you cut it?

5.7 Still More rambling Electrons: Light Driven Reactions

5.8 Electrons At the Beach and In the Darkroom

            Students Often Ask: How Are Colors Incorporated into Color Film?

Summary

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Chapter 6 Sunshine

A Study of Nuclear Events and the Inherent Instability of (Some) Atoms

6.1 Weight Gain for Atoms: Fusion

6.2 Alchemy

            Students Often Ask: How are New Elements Confirmed and Who Gets to Name Them?

6.3 Weight Loss for Atoms: Radioactive Decay

            Issues In Chemistry: Three Women

6.4 It’s A Wonderful Half-Life

            Beyond the Ordinary: A New Old Way of “Seeing” Alpha Particles

            Students Often Ask: How Do Smoke Detectors Work?

6.5 Power from the Nucleus: Fission

6.6 Living Organisms and Radiation

            Issues In Chemistry: Who’s Going to Take the Trash Out?

            Issues In Chemistry: The Tragedy at Chernobyl

Summary

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Chapter 7 Water

A Look At Intermolecular Interactions, Particularly Those Involving the Unique Properties of Water

7.1 Songbirds and Hydrogen Atoms

7.2 Water with Water

            Students Often Ask: How Can Insects Walk on Water?

7.3 Solid Water

            Students Often Ask: Why is Salt Used to Melt Ice on Wintry Roads?

            Students Often Ask: Can it Really be Too Cold to Snow?

7.4 Shifting Phases

7.5 How to Boil Water

            Students Often Ask: Does Adding Salt to Water Make Pasta Cook More Quickly?

7.6 From Aerosol Cans to Scuba Diving

7.7 Like Dissolves Like

            Chemistry At The Crime Scene: Death By Drowning

            Students Often Ask: How Do Detergents Get Greasy Dirt Out of Clothing?

Summary

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Chapter 8 Air

A Study of the Gaseous Atmosphere in Which We Live and the Laws That Dictate the Behavior of Gases

8.1 Trouble in Tokyo

8.2 “Better Killing Through Chemistry”

            Beyond The Ordinary: Mind Your Own Bees-ness

8.3 Keep a Lid On It

            Students Often Ask: Why are tires filled with air instead of being solid?

8.4 Under Pressure

8.5 Turn Up the Thermostat

            Students Often Ask: How does a thermos keep hot things hot and cold things cold?

            Students Often Ask: Why is it more difficult for an airplane to take off at high altitude or on a hot day?

8.6 Designer Gas Laws

            Issues In Chemistry: Do Human Pheromones Really Exist?

8.7 Stay Cool: Ozone and Global Warming

            Issues In Chemistry: The Tuvalu Blues

Summary

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Chapter 9 Explosives

A Study of Organic Molecules with Simple Functional Groups and The Forces Within Them

9.1 The Smoking Gun

            Beyond the Ordinary: Disappearing Ships

9.2 Keeping Track of Hydrocarbons

            Students Often Ask: What is the meaning of the octane number reported for gasoline?

9.3 Cocktails and Anesthetics

            Issues In Chemistry: MBTE in Gasoline

9.4 Bigger Bangs

            Students Often Ask: Why do people with heart conditions take nitroglycerin?

9.5 High Explosives, Low Explosives

            Students Often Ask: What’s the most explosive compound known?

9.6 Chaos

9.7 Arson and the Analysis of Explosives

            Chemistry At the Crime Scene: The Dog Nose Knows

Summary

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Chapter 10 Chains I

A Study Of Synthetic Polymers And The Ways They Improve Everyday Life

10.1 Dubble Bubble

10.2 Monomers to Polymers

            Students Often Ask: If superglue adheres immediately to everything it touches, why doesn’t it adhere to the inside walls of the superglue tube?

10.3 Groovy, baby: The Science Behind Polyester

10.4 Design-Your-Own Plastics

10.5 Get Out of My Way!

            Chemistry At The Crime Scene: Synthetic Fibers

10.6 The Weakest Link

            Students Often Ask: If esters are hydrolyzed by water, why can we wash polyester clothes?

            Issues In Chemistry: University of Arizona Garbage Project

Summary

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Chapter 11 Chains II

A Survey of Natural Polymers, Including Proteins and Nucleic Acids

11.1 Tapping Mother Nature

11.2 Amino Acids: Nature’s Building Blocks

            Students Often Ask: What is the difference between a peptide and a protein?

            Issues In Chemistry: Transgenic Plants—Friend or Foe?

11.3 Protein: Nature’s Jack of All Trades

11.4 The Secret Language of Chains

11.5 Genetic Engineering: The DNA Shuffle

            Chemistry At The Crime Scene: DNA-- True to Life

Summary

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Chapter 12 Groceries

The Chemistry of the Foods We Eat

12.1 The Fat Tax

12.2 Organized Fat

            Students Often Ask: What are Trans-Fats, and why should I worry about them?

12.3 Bite, Chew, and Swallow

            Beyond the Ordinary: The Most Amazing Enzymes Known

12.4 Sugar, Sugar

            Students Often Ask: Are artificial sweeteners really okay to eat?

            Chemistry at the Crime Scene: A Practical Guide to Dining Out Before Being Murdered

12.5 Weight Watching

12.6 Fake Food

            Issues In Chemistry: Honey-Mustard Glazed Irradiated Pork Tenderloin with Grilled Vegetables

Summary

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Chapter 13 Drugs

How Drugs Are Designed to Benefit the Human Body

13.1 Eat Your Broccoli!

13.2 The Ideal Drug

            Students Often Ask: Why do patients undergoing chemotherapy for cancer so often get sick from the medicine?

13.3 Gumming Up the Works

13.4 On the Other Hand…

13.5 Left or Right, Right or Wrong?

            Students Often Ask: How do time-release medications work?

Summary

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Chapter 14 Drugs II

The Dark Side of Drug Use

14.1 That Ubiquitous Nitrogen Atom

            Students Often Ask: What causes bad breath?

14.2 “Speed”

            Students Often Ask: What is the difference between Ecstacy and Speed?

14.3 Are You On Drugs?

14.4 The State of the Art

            Chemistry At The Crime Scene: Drug Testing at Sporting Events

14.5 Cocaine, Coca-Cola, Crack

            Students Often Ask: Does Coca-Cola really contain cocaine?

14.6 Smoke and Mirrors

Summary

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Dr. Kimberley Waldron is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Regis University where, in addition to lower division courses for majors and nonmajors, she teaches advanced courses in the fields of inorganic and biological chemistry.  She also serves as Director of the Regis Environmental Studies Program.  Dr. Waldron received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Virginia and her doctoral degree in inorganic chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University.  She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology in the area of bioinorganic chemistry before joining the faculty at Regis University as a Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemistry.  Dr. Waldron lives in Denver, Colorado with her family, along with two dogs and one cat.

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