Description
This work evolved over thirty combined years of teaching general chemistry to a variety of student demographics. The focus is not to recap or review the theoretical concepts well described in the available texts.Instead, the topics and descriptions in this book make available specific, detailed step-by-step methods and procedures for solving the major types of problems in general chemistry. Explanations, instructional process sequences, solved examples and completely solved practice problems are greatly expanded, containing significantly more detail than can usually be devoted to in a comprehensive text. Many chapters also provide alternative viewpoints as an aid to understanding.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Unit Conversions And Density: An Introduction To Problem Solving Methods
Chapter 2 Atomic Particles, Isotopes, And Ions: An Initial Look At Atomic Structure
Chapter 3 Working With Atomic Mass And Nuclear Mass
Chapter 4 Procedures For Writing Formulas And Naming Compounds
Chapter 5 An Introduction To Moles And Molar Mass
Chapter 6 Procedures For Calculating Empirical And Moleculer Formulas
Chapter 7 Writing Chemical Equations
Chapter 8 Techniques For Performing Stoichiometric Calculations
Chapter 9 Precipitation And Acid/Base Aqueous Reactions: Concepts And Methods To Design Complete Balanced Equations
Chapter 10 Oxidation Numbers: A First Look At Redox Reactions
Chapter 11 Solution Concentration, Molarity, And Solution Stoichiometry
Chapter 12 Light, Matter, And Spectroscopy
Chapter 13 Atomic Orbitals And The Electronic Structure of the Atom
Chapter 14 Alternate Methods For Visualization And Constructing Lewis Structures Of Covalent Molecules
Chapter 15 Additional Techniques For Designing And Representing Structures Of Large Molecules
Chapter 16 Determining And Drawing Molecular Geometry And Polarity
Chapter 17 Summary Analysis Of Central Atom Bonding, Hybridization And Geometry
Chapter 18 Concepts Of Potential Energy, Enthalpy, And Bond Energy Calculations
Chapter 19 Thermochemistry Calculations: Heat Capacity And Enthalpy
Chapter 20 Working With Gas Laws
Chapter 21 Guideline For Analyzing Intermolecular Forces And Calculating Enthalpies
Chapter 22 Kinetics Part 1: Rate Laws, Rate Equations And An Introduction To Reaction Mechanisms
Chapter 23 General Techniques For Solving Equilibrium Problems
Chapter 24 Kinetics Part 2: Application Of Rate Laws And Rate Variables To Reaction Mechanisms
Chapter 25 Thermodynamics: Entropy And Free Energy
Chapter 26 Acid/Base Equilibrium, pH, And Buffers
