So! You Want To Study Chemistry What! You Need To Know

About the Book

This storehouse of knowledge was designed and written primarily for the entry level college student who wanted to pursue a career in the “Hard” science, such as “Chemistry.” Most entry level students in the college arena have difficulty in the hard “sciences,” generally due to a weak mathematics background. This unique book, compiled by an individual who had over thirty years of teaching experience, has accumulated in one single reference source: the essentials of basic arithmetic for the fundamental operations of additions, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers, decimals, fractions, and mixed numbers with some imbedded mathematical short-cuts; the essentials for the mathematical manipulation of exponentially expressed extremely small and extremely large numbers; the essentials of algebraic expressions and manipulations of various formulas with a full explanation of logarithms; the essentials of basic calculus for the comprehension of non-static systems; and finally a chapter on the basic concepts, constructs, and vocabulary associated with discipline known as “Chemistry.” As an additional learning mechanism, the chapter on chemistry has about forty problems presented with an associated “Solutions Manual” imbedded in the appendices of the overall text. Also for the reader’s benefit, within the appendices is a chronological presentation of the “Laws, their formulas, concepts, and vocabulary” associated with any basic course in chemistry as a “ready” reference section in case one needed a quick review on some constructs. In addition, other chapters of the book fully explain the diversity and the many opportunities open to one that has a background in chemistry and the future trends in the overall discipline.

About the Author

Dr. Gaines B. Jackson has accumulated over twenty years of practical and academic experiences in mathematics and the physical sciences. He received a B. S. in Analytical Chemistry from West Texas State University, after which he worked for Sinclair Oil and Gas Company. In 1972, he received his master’s of science degree in Environmental Science from the University of Texas at Houston. Until 1977, he worked for the Oklahoma Department of Health as a wastewater research chemist. In 1983, he received a Dr. of Public Health in Environmental Health with an extensive publication on the reuse of primary treated municipal wastewater using the land application technique called the “Spray Run-off Method”. He has published in numerous national journals and invented the “Water Utility Converter” and “The Jackson’s Water Wheel”, both very practical slide charts that actually work. He has also authored “Applied Water and Spentwater Chemistry—A Laboratory Manual”, “Applied Nomography Training for the Water Utility Operator”, and coauthored with Hellen Sue Way, “Transitional Science”. He is always available for lectures through the Rose State College Retired Professor’s Speaker’s Bureau in Midwest City, Oklahoma.