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by Valerie Maylin Moseley (Author)
Chemistry is an applied science. Chemistry is all around us, in everything we do and experience from sports to cooking in the kitchen; from gardening and agriculture to manufacturing and the environment. Chemistry is in medicine, life processes and technological processes. Chemistry is in hairdressing and the beauty industry and also in house cleaning. Students of Chemistry should be able to apply their knowledge and understanding of the principles of Chemistry to unfamiliar situations. They should be able to create devices and procedures that will help to solve problems in daily life. Chemistry should help students to design plans and execute research in order to benefit mankind. This book is a student-centred and student friendly, teaching and learning tool that is designed to make seemingly difficult subject material easy to grasp and understand. The language is simple, concise and precise. There are many worked examples of problems and there are questions at the end of most chapters. Students must supplement this book with questions from past examinations, where possible.Advanced Chemistry for Life is personalised, intended to be the student's actual notebook, with provision for questions to be answered in the book. This is the first of two units and it is patterned off of the CAPE syllabus and is appropriate for students sitting Advanced Level Chemistry in Grade 11 and lower sixth forms in the Caribbean, Africa, Britain and the USA.Advanced Level Chemistry for Life covers the fundamental principles of Chemistry, Kinetics and Equilibria and the Inorganic Chemistry of selected Groups and Periods in the Periodic Table.Unit II covers Organic Chemistry, chemistry of Analytical Processes, as well as Environmental and Industrial Chemistry.
Author Biography
Mrs. Valerie Moseley is a graduate of the University of the West Indies Mona. She graduated with B.Sc. honours in Zoology, Botany and Chemistry in 1976. She holds a Diploma in Education from the University of the West Indies Cave Hill campus. Mrs. Moseley taught chemistry at the Saint Michael's Girls School in Barbados and at Jamaica College between 1976 and 1977. She then took up an appointment at Queen's College, Barbados in 1978 and retired in 2007. At Queen's College she taught Chemistry and Biology at both ordinary and advanced levels preparing students for the General Certificate of Education (GCE), the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE). She headed the Physical Sciences department (Physics and Chemistry) and later, the Chemistry department at Queen's College between 1993 and 2007. Mrs. Moseley has been involved with the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) in different capacities: as a member of the CAPE syllabus Committee, as a CSEC Examiner moderating the School Based Assessment, and as a CAPE Examiner, in Chemistry. She also conducted CSEC and CAPE School Based Assessment (SBA) Chemistry Practical workshops in some Caribbean islands on behalf of the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC.) From 2007, Mrs. Moseley has been the Director of Visionary Academy, a science institution located in Barbados.
