Energy, Matter, and Change

William Tucker’s passion for chemistry was inspired by his high school teacher Gary Osborn. He left Maine to pursue Chemistry at Middlebury College, and after graduating in 2010 he decided to pursue a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Sandro Mecozzi, where he developed semifluorinated triphilic surfactants for hydrophobic drug delivery. After earning his Ph.D. in 2015, he took a fellowship at Boston University as a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow. There he co-taught organic chemistry while working in the laboratory of Dr. John Caradonna. In the Caradonna laboratory, he worked on developing a surface-immobilized iron-oxidation catalyst for the oxidation of C–H bonds using dioxygen from the air as the terminal oxidant. Throughout all of this work, his passion has always been for teaching and working with students both in and out of the classroom. He has been lucky for the past six years to work at Concord Academy, where his students have, through their questions, pushed him to think deeper and more critically about chemistry. Their curiosity inspires him, and their inquisitiveness inspired his writing.

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Matter and change

Chapter 3 Measurement and significant figures

Chapter 4 Conversion factors, dimensional analysis, and chemical amounts

Chapter 5 Energy

Chapter 6 Atomic structure

Chapter 7 Nuclear change

Chapter 8 Electron configuration

Chapter 9 Periodic trends

Chapter 10 Chemical formulae and nomenclature

Chapter 11 Bonding

Chapter 12 Three-dimensional structure

Chapter 13 Intermolecular interactions

Chapter 14 States and physical changes

Chapter 15 Describing and quantifying chemical change

Chapter 16 Chemical reactions: electron transfer and electron sharing

Appendices