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For decades, renowned authors Steve and Susan Zumdahl have helped students build critical thinking skills while learning to “think like chemists.”
In “Chemistry: An Atoms First Approach,” Fourth Edition, Steve and Susan Zumdahl, along with new co-author Don DeCoste, build on this approach with a strong emphasis on conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills. Students move fluidly from molecules, structure, and bonding to more complex materials and their properties.
In WebAssign, Cengage’s learning platform, students reinforce course concepts and build learning confidence through interactive problems, instant feedback, and built-in support.
- Learning objectives in every chapter help students focus on key concepts as they read and work through end-of-chapter problems.
- Hundreds of new or revised end-of-chapter questions and problems designed to spark meaningful group discussion have been added to the text.
- Eight new Chemistry Pioneer boxes highlight the accomplishments of Rosalind Franklin, Stephanie Kwolek, St. Elmo Brady, Arnold Beckman, Marie Curie, and more.
- All chapters have been reviewed for clarity, enhanced understanding, and cohesive flow.
- Molecular structure art has been updated for consistency. Updated figures and graphs reflect an accessibility-driven approach in the WebAssign course.
- Students work through a fluid, unified story built around an organizing principle: Start with the smallest element, the atom, and progress from there.
- Students are given tools to help them grow into critical thinkers who ask questions, apply rules, develop models, and evaluate the outcome.
- Students learn how to solve problems by thinking them through, creating long-term, meaningful learning skills that carry them into their careers.
Review: Measurement and Calculations in Chemistry.
1. Chemical Foundations.
2. Atomic Structure and Periodicity.
3. Bonding: General Concepts.
4. Molecular Structure and Orbitals.
5. Stoichiometry.
6. Types of Chemical Reactions and Solution Stoichiometry.
7. Chemical Energy.
8. Gases.
9. Liquids and Solids.
10. Properties of Solutions.
11. Chemical Kinetics.
12. Chemical Equilibrium.
13. Acids and Bases.
14. Acid-Base Equilibria.
15. Solubility and Complex Ion Equilibria.
16. Spontaneity, Entropy, and Free Energy.
17. Electrochemistry.
18. The Nucleus: A Chemist's View.
19. The Representative Elements.
20. Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry.
21. Organic and Biological Molecules.
1. Chemical Foundations.
2. Atomic Structure and Periodicity.
3. Bonding: General Concepts.
4. Molecular Structure and Orbitals.
5. Stoichiometry.
6. Types of Chemical Reactions and Solution Stoichiometry.
7. Chemical Energy.
8. Gases.
9. Liquids and Solids.
10. Properties of Solutions.
11. Chemical Kinetics.
12. Chemical Equilibrium.
13. Acids and Bases.
14. Acid-Base Equilibria.
15. Solubility and Complex Ion Equilibria.
16. Spontaneity, Entropy, and Free Energy.
17. Electrochemistry.
18. The Nucleus: A Chemist's View.
19. The Representative Elements.
20. Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry.
21. Organic and Biological Molecules.
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