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Introduction to General chemistry Lab Manual Chem 2A-Labs
Divan Fard · Shasta College
This introductory chemistry laboratory manual provides students with hands-on experiences that reinforce fundamental chemical concepts while developing essential laboratory skills. Experiments include laboratory safety, the scientific method, measurement and density, separation techniques, physical and chemical properties, chemical reactions and equations, flame tests, empirical formulas and hydrates, decomposition reactions, molecular geometry, gas laws, and intermolecular forces. Through obser
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Non-Isothermal Kinetic Methods
Arhangel'skii et al. · Moscow State University
This application book is intended for senior students of natural science faculties and technical institutes, who use methods of thermal analysis for kinetic studies in their research. The book can help researchers in studies of thermal decomposition, oxidation of various substances and materials, and other similar processes. It can be used in the laboratories of industrial enterprises applying methods of thermal analysis for quality control of raw materials and final products.
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3.4: Maturity
Michael Rygel and Page Quinton · SUNY Potsdam
Textural maturity refers the the size and shape of grains and the nature of interstitial materials. Compositional maturity refers to the composition of framework grains. A complex set of processes influences these characteristics
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Food Chemistry
Divan Fard · Shasta College
This Food Chemistry text explores the chemical composition, properties, and reactions of foods. Topics include water, carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, acidity, flavor, physical transformations, Maillard reactions, lipid oxidation, enzymes, and fermentation, with emphasis on how chemistry influences food processing, quality, and stability
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General Chemistry Lab Manual Chem 1A Experiments
Divan Fard · Shasta College
This lab manual is designed to support the first semester of general chemistry. The experiments include Fun with Dimensional Analysis, Density of a Sucrose Solution, Percent Composition, Stoichiometry, Limiting Reactants, Reactions and Solubility, Titration of a Carbonated Beverage, Molar Mass of a Volatile Liquid, Calorimetry, Hess’s Law, Molecular Geometry, and a Lab Final.
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An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
Leo Moser · University of Alberta
In the contents: 1.01: Compositions and Partitions
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Geochemistry
Stephen Lower · Simon Fraser University
In the contents: 1.01: Composition and Structure of the Earth · 3.01: Structure and Composition of the Atmosphere
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Exploring Weather and Climate
Glen Sampson · Glen Sampson · 2025
This textbook is oriented toward a first or second year college science class, or an advanced high school course. Sixteen chapters are present which fits a 16-week college semester. These chapters may be divided into three sections: 1. Atmospheric processes including structure, composition, energy balance, pressure forces, moisture, stability, and precipitation processes in Chapters 1 through 5. 2. Weather systems including global circulation, tropical and extratropical cyclones, thunderstorms, tornadoes, atmospheric optics, and weather forecasting in Chapters 6 through 10. 3. Climate topics including classification, human influences on the atmosphere, natural climate variability, paleoclimate, climate change due to anthropogenic influences, climate projections, and a changing climate’s affect on extreme weather in Chapters 11 through 16.
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The Essential Guide to Planet Earth
Benjamin Burger · Benjamin Burger · 2020
Every moment of your life will be from the perspective of a single planet—Planet Earth. You were born here and you will die here. This textbook is a guide to your home, to your place in the universe. By taking this course, you will learn about your home planet: how it works and how we know it works this way. This course is a user's manual for planet Earth, with direct recommendations for future generations, such as yourself, to maintain its health and natural wonders. As an astute student, you will be introduced to the theoretical principles of science and of how to defend yourself from the spread of ignorance. You will learn about Earth’s dimensions and motions, as well as how to navigate its surface. You will learn how energy originates from the closest star (the Sun), its Moon, and other sources of energy in the Earth’s active core and how this energy can be used and stored. You will learn basic scientific principles of matter, the makeup of substances that form the field of chemistry. You will examine the planet’s atmosphere, the air that you are breathing as you read this, and how that air is slowly changing. You will explore the vast abundance of Earth’s water, covering the planet in enormous oceans, abundant lakes, and rivers, as well as frozen water locked within snow and ice. You will learn how to predict wind and storms and how climates shift. You will lead your own exploration of the solid interior of the Earth, the composition of mountains, rocks, and dirt. You will learn about life, the most unique feature of the planet. You will explore theories of how life arose and how it has evolved and changed over time, learning that you are of Earth and the story of your own origin on this planet. You will undertake an examination of the great biomes of jungles, forests, and deserts and the life that exists within them. You will survey the important field of biology as you learn about life and its interactions with the planet. In the end, you will come to face th
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Inanimate Life
George Briggs · Milne Open Textbooks · 2021
Inanimate Life is an open textbook covering a very traditional biological topic, botany, in a non-traditional way. Rather than a phylogenetic approach, going group by group, the book considers what defines organisms and examines four general areas of their biology: structure (their composition and how it comes to be), reproduction (including sex), energy and material needs, and their interactions with conditions and with other organisms. Although much of the text is devoted to vascular plants, the book comparatively considers ‘EBA = everything but animals’ (hence the title): plants, photosynthetic organisms that are not plants (‘algae’, as well as some bacteria and archaebacteria), fungi, and ‘fungal-like’ organisms. The book includes brief ‘fact sheets’ of over fifty organisms/groups that biologists should be aware of, ranging from the very familiar (corn, yeast) to the unfamiliar (bracket fungi, late-blight of potato). These groups reflect the diversity of inanimate life.
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Linear Algebra Done Right
Sheldon Axler · Springer · 2024
Now available in Open Access, this best-selling textbook for a second course in linear algebra is aimed at undergraduate math majors and graduate students. The fourth edition gives an expanded treatment of the singular value decomposition and its consequences. It includes a new chapter on multilinear algebra, treating bilinear forms, quadratic forms, tensor products, and an approach to determinants via alternating multilinear forms. This new edition also increases the use of the minimal polynomial to provide cleaner proofs of multiple results. Also, over 250 new exercises have been added. The novel approach taken here banishes determinants to the end of the book. The text focuses on the central goal of linear algebra: understanding the structure of linear operators on finite-dimensional vector spaces. The author has taken unusual care to motivate concepts and simplify proofs. A variety of interesting exercises in each chapter helps students understand and manipulate the objects of linear algebra. Beautiful formatting creates pages with an unusually student-friendly appearance in both print and electronic versions. No prerequisites are assumed other than the usual demand for suitable mathematical maturity. The text starts by discussing vector spaces, linear independence, span, basis, and dimension. The book then deals with linear maps, eigenvalues, and eigenvectors. Inner-product spaces are introduced, leading to the finite-dimensional spectral theorem and its consequences. Generalized eigenvectors are then used to provide insight into the structure of a linear operator.
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Hybrid Chem 51 v1
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In the contents: 4.4 Composition, Decomposition, and Combustion Reactions · 5.3 Percent Composition, Empirical and Molecular Formulas
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B-CU: CH-141 General Chemistry 1
Sidney Bolden Jr. · Bethune-Cookman University
In the contents: 6: Composition of Substances and Solutions · 6.E: Composition of Substances and Solutions (Exercises) · Composition of Commercial Acids and Bases
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Physical Geology
Steven Earle · Vancover Island University
In the contents: 4.02: Magma Composition and Eruption Style
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Physical Science for Educators Volume 1
Timothy Evans, Kylee Ford, Kenneth Henry, Yogita Kumari, Claude Mona & Suzanne Wakim · Coalinga College
In the contents: 5.11: Composition of Substances and Solutions (Exercises)
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Calculus
Gregory Hartman et al. · Virginia Military Institute
In the contents: 6.05: Partial Fraction Decomposition
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Analysis
CK-Foundation · LibreTexts
In the contents: 1.6.01: Composition of Functions
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CCSF Chemistry Resources
LibreTexts
In the contents: 2.3.02: Formula Mass, Percent Composition, and the Mole · 2.3.03: Formula Mass, Percent Composition, and the Mole (Problems)
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A First Journey Through Linear Algebra
LibreTexts
In the contents: 6.10.03: Isomorphisms and Composition · 6.10.3E: Isomorphisms and Composition Exercises
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Chem 51
LibreTexts
In the contents: 7.05: Composition Decomposition and Combustion Reactions · 8.04: Percent Composition