"Excellent supplements for standard textbooks, offering readers friendly introductions to foundational concepts while using plain language, clear examples, and end-of-chapter quizzes to reinforce key concepts."
—Booklist
 

Vorwort
The Big Fat Notebooks go to high school! A lively, fully illustrated guide to acing high school chemistry, with clear notes on the big ideas, helpful tips for memorizing processes and remembering definitions, and lively doodles that make science easier to understand (and fun to study).

Autorentext

Not only was Jennifer Swanson the kid with the great notes when she was in high school, but she went on to become a National Science Teaching Association award-winning science instructor and the author of more than 25 children's books (her writing has appeared on Booklist's Top 10 Books).
 

Klappentext

Chemistry? No problem! 

This ***Big Fat Notebook ***covers everything you need to know during a year of high school chemistry class, breaking down one big bad subject into accessible units. Learn to study better and get better grades using mnemonic devices, definitions, diagrams, educational doodles, and quizzes to recap it all. 

Including: 

• Atoms, elements, compounds and mixtures
• The periodic table
• Quantum theory
• Bonding
• The mole
• Chemical reactions and calculations 
• Gas laws 
• Solubility 
• pH scale
• Titrations 
• Le Chatelier's principle
• ...and much more!

Inhalt

CONTENTS
 
UNIT 1:  BASICS OF CHEMISTRY

1. Introduction to Chemistry

2. Conducting Experiments

3. Constructing Lab Reports

4. SI Units of Measurement

5. Lab Safety and Scientific Tools  
   UNIT 2:  ALL ABOUT MATTER

6. Properties of Matter and Changes in Form

7. States of Matter and Phase Changes

8. Atoms, Elements, Compounds and Mixtures  
   UNIT 3: ATOMIC THEORY AND ELECTRON CONFIGURATION

9. Atomic Structure and Electron Charge

10. Quantum Theory, Electrons as Waves, and Photons  
    UNIT 4: ELEMENTS AND THE PERIODIC TABLE

11. The Periodic Table

12. Periodic Law, Families, and Trends

13. Energy Levels and Waves  
    UNIT 5: BONDING AND VESPR THEORY

14. Bonding

15. Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VESPR) Theory

16. Metallic Bonds and Intramolecular Forces  
    UNIT 6: CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS

17. Naming and Writing Formulas

18. The Mole

19. Percent Composition and Empirical Formulas  
    UNIT 7: CHEMICAL REACTIONS AND CALCULATIONS

20. Chemical Reactions

21. Chemical Calculations (Stoichiometry)  
    UNIT 8: GASES

22. Common Gases and Units of Measurement

23. Kinetic Molecular Theory

24. Gas Laws  
    UNIT 9: SOLUTIONS AND SOLUBILITY

25. Solubility

26. Solubility Rules and Conditions

27. The Concentration of a Solution  
    UNIT 10: ACIDS AND BASES

28. Properties of Acids and Bases

29. pH Scale and Calculations

30. Conjugate Acids and Bases

31. Titrations  
    UNIT 11: CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM

32. What is Chemical Equilibrium?

33. Le Chatelier’s Principle  
    UNIT 12: THERMODYNAMICS AND REACTION RATES

34. The First Law of Thermodynamics

35. Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

36. Reaction Rates