Chemistry: Changes in Matter and Energy

[Janick Beauchamp]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To provide a chemistry textbook
• Image Credit: N/A
• Links: Chemistry: The Central Science, 13th edition, by Brown, LeMay et al. (the source for the table of contents)

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Media Name: Chemistry: Changes in Matter and Energy
• Formats: Book, Holobook
• Distribution: Common
• Length:
  Epic (overall)
• Long (individual tomes)

[*]Description: The series comprise five tomes, with four of them covering one specific area within chemistry, designed to describe each topic in depth and the final one being an appendix of mathematics as well as a table of chemical properties, with each book outlining what physico-chemical as well as mathematical knowledge is assumed of the reader, and also a bibliography of resources to consult if the assumption proves incorrect. In addition, each and every chapter comprises practical uses of the material of that particular chapter.
SOCIAL INFORMATION

• Authors: [member="Janick Beauchamp"], Alyssa Hickman, Griet van Vliet (primary authors), others in acknowledgments, none of which are PCs or codexed NPCs
• Publisher: Galaxy News Service
• Reception: Critical response seemed to have been more of a reflection of the factional allegiance of the authors than any real appraisal of its content. As a result, it seems that the chemistry textbook is better received among factions that are allied to the ORC than among its enemies, even though none of its enemies have actually banned the book. In non-aligned space, the textbook's reception is mostly neutral with no real feelings either way.

CONTENT INFORMATION

This table of contents is by no means an exhaustive compendium of the books' contents. It only outlines the chapters' titles.

Volume 1: Stereochemistry

• Chapter 1: Atomic structure and the electron shell
• Chapter 2: The periodic table of elements
• Chapter 3: Covalent and ionic bonds
• Chapter 4: Molecular geometry: valence electron pair repulsion
• Chapter 5: Spectroscopy

Volume 2: Thermochemistry

• Chapter 6: Laws of thermodynamics
• Chapter 7: Endothermal/exothermal reactions, enthalpy, entropy and free energy
• Chapter 8: Activation, lattice energies and active complex
• Chapter 9: Temperature, atomic and molecular motion
• Chapter 10: Phase transition, pressure and latent energy
• Chapter 11: Eutectic and azeotropic systems

Volume 3: Analytical chemistry

• Chapter 12: Chemical reactions in solutions
• Chapter 13: Physical properties of solutions
• Chapter 14: Chemical kinetics: this chapter is devoted to the study of the reaction speeds and the factors that change them
• Chapter 15: Chemical equilibrium: this chapter is devoted to the study of the equilibrium constant, the châtelier principle, as well as the change in equilibrium constants when temperatures change (the van't Hoff equation)
• Chapter 16: Acids and bases: this chapter is devoted to the study of what makes an acid or a base a strong or a weak one
• Chapter 17: Acido-basic equilibrium and solubility equilibrium: this chapter is devotd to the study of titration when mixing a strong base and a weak acid (or vice-versa), or two weak bases, and also the solubility equilibrium
• Chapter 18: Introduction to electrochemistry: this chapter is devoted to the study of notions such as oxydoreduction reactions, balancing them, as well as the reaction voltage, anodes and cathodes

Volume 4: Crystallography and spectroscopy

• Chapter 19: Bravais lattices in 2 and 3 dimensions
• Chapter 20: Miller notation
• Chapter 21: Bragg diffraction patterns
• Chapter 22: X-ray diffraction
• Chapter 23: Crystal growth
• Chapter 24: Crystalline defects and impurities

Volume 5: Appendices

• Appendix A: Mathematical supplement (including but not limited to, algebra, exponentials and logarithms)
• Appendix B: Chemical substance properties (including, but not limited to, density, refraction index, melting and boiling points)
• Appendix C: Chemical reaction properties at STP (such as enthalpy change, equilibrium constants)
• Appendix D: Significant figures and uncertainty rules: absolute uncertainties, relative uncertainties, significant figures when performing calculations whose uncertainties, absolute or relative, are known

HISTORICAL INFORMATION
After the success of the Asobi 95% Tihaar at popularizing chemistry among the Outer Rim's alcohol-drinking youth, on the back of two of the three authors advertising azeotropic goodness, the Utai Magic Circle began to write a series of chemistry textbooks, including more detailed explanations of thermochemistry notions such as azeotropism, latent energy and eutectics. Since the UMC did not possess the infrastructure for publishing what amounted to a series of advanced chemistry textbooks, the ORC branch of Galaxy News Service ended up printing the books to a wide circulation. The end result ended up being a rather detailed compendium of chemical knowledge that had to be broken up into five tomes, with the last one being a compendium of chemical properties.

 

[Ashin Varanin]

[member="Janick Beauchamp"]

• 'Goodreads' didn't create the book or its cover art; Goodreads is a social media network, and we typically don't allow those as image sources unless they're the actual source of the image. Can you please redo the citation?
• Copying the title and cover of an IRL book isn't kosher. Can you please do something else for the title and cover?
• What's the source you adapted or copied for the table of contents?

 

[Janick Beauchamp]

[member="Cradossk"] So I removed the cover altogether, but that specific book I was using for cover is now the source for the table of contents as listed in the Links section.

 

[Ashin Varanin]

[member="Janick Beauchamp"]

[member="Cradossk"] So I removed the cover altogether, but that specific book I was using for cover is now the source for the table of contents as listed in the Links section.

I'm not aiming to be unnecessarily strict here, but you're saying you lifted the entire ToC -- half your submission -- from the IRL book (along with its title and cover) and didn't cite it until now? I'd strongly recommend reading this for a clearer understanding of what constitutes plagiarism. Some points of note:

All of the following are considered plagiarism:
turning in someone else's work as your own
copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)
Most cases of plagiarism can be avoided, however, by citing sources. Simply acknowledging that certain material has been borrowed and providing your audience with the information necessary to find that source is usually enough to prevent plagiarism.

On the recommendation of the Codex Admin, I'd suggest thoroughly rewriting all the material you copied, either here/now or in Pre-Codex. Your call.

 

[Janick Beauchamp]

[member="Cradossk"] After re-reading the table of contents of the original source, the original source was very bare-bones and put virtually no meat whatsoever around the chapter titles. But I also changed the IC title of the book, too, while retaining the source for the chapter titles.

Even then I'd rather archive it if it was, in fact the best way to go forward.