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Help your students succeed in chemistry with the clear explanations, problem-solving strategies and dynamic study tools of CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL REACTIVITY, Eleventh Edition. This progressive and engaging general chemistry text helps students develop a deeper understanding of fundamental chemistry concepts. The text emphasizes the visual nature of chemistry, illustrating the close interrelationship of the macroscopic, symbolic and particulate levels of chemistry with an art program that brings each of these levels to life in engaging detail. In addition, the text showcases the practical applications of chemistry and presents recent advances to make content both interesting and relevant for today's students. The Eleventh Edition also features online learning activities in OWLv2 that can deliver personalized learning experiences for students.
- A new Chemistry in Your Career feature introduces a diverse group of people who are using their backgrounds in chemistry in a variety of professions, making it easier for students to envision a future in chemistry relevant to their specific interests and career goals.
- The authors have carefully revised or reorganized every chapter based on their extensive teaching experience and suggestions from other instructors. Many updates focus on making the text even more readable and accessible to today's students, as well as reflecting the diversity of people working in the field of chemistry. In addition, the authors have checked data against the most recent literature and current practice, and they have updated applications where appropriate, especially in environmental chemistry and energy.
- New Think-Pair-Share questions encourage students to attempt to find answers individually, then discuss their answers with other students and finally present their solution to the class. These questions often ask students to develop a more conceptual understanding of the material or to think about problem-solving methods relevant to the chapter content.
- Newly redesigned Strategy Maps accompany select worked examples to give students a visual overview of the complete problem-solving strategy. In addition, Strategy Maps are now better integrated into the text, and many worked examples have been rewritten for clearer correspondence with the supporting visuals.
- The authors have fine-tuned the Chapter Goals listed for all sections in every chapter, and they have reviewed, edited for clarity and added new content to the Study Questions that correlate to these goals (presented in the Chapter Goals Revisited sections that conclude each chapter).
- A Closer Look features show examples of chemistry solving a specific problem, highlight ways chemistry is involved in aspects of everyday life or provide a more detailed look at a key concept or its history. All of these features have been reviewed for currency and interest, and many have been revised or added as new content for the Eleventh Edition.
- Applying Chemical Principles scenario problems connect key concepts covered in the current chapter with material from previous chapters to address problems in “real-world” chemistry. Featured topics include the colors of fireworks, green chemistry, sunscreens, new forms of carbon and chemistry in the movie The Martian. For the Eleventh Edition, many of these problems have been updated or replaced to incorporate the most recent advances in chemistry.
- The text uses a six-part worked example structure to help students learn how to approach a problem rather than just memorizing problem types and solution approaches. The six parts include 1. Problem statement, 2. "What do you know?," 3. Strategy, 4. Fully worked solution, 5. "Think about your answer" and 6. "Check your understanding" (an additional, similar problem).
- The text features extensive molecular representations to help students move beyond simply plugging numbers into an equation and forge a stronger conceptual understanding of what is happening at a molecular level. Chemical equations often include visual depictions, and space-filling molecular art helps connect problem-solving content to relevant fundamental concepts.
- Problem-Solving Tips features provide advice and insights to help students understand key aspects of how to solve common or challenging types of chemistry problems.
- Numerous questions and problems are included to help students achieve the learning goals of each chapter, and answers to odd-numbered study questions are provided in the text's Answer Appendix.
- Practicing Skills questions are labeled by topic and refer to specific sections and examples relevant to that topic. The goal for these questions is to help students gain greater familiarity with key content in each chapter and more readily master important concepts.
- Summary and conceptual questions focus on drawing connections among diverse topics within a chapter, connecting chapter content to material previously studied or focusing students' attention on important conceptual content.
1. Basic Concepts of Chemistry.
1R. Let's Review: The Tools of Quantitative Chemistry.
2. Atoms, Molecules and Ions.
3. Chemical Reactions.
4. Stoichiometry: Quantitative Information about Chemical Reactions.
5. Principles of Chemical Reactivity: Energy and Chemical Reactions.
Part II: ATOMS AND MOLECULES.
6. The Structure of Atoms.
7. The Structure of Atoms and Periodic Trends.
8. Bonding and Molecular Structure.
9. Bonding and Molecular Structure – Orbital Hybridization and Molecular Orbitals.
Part III: STATES OF MATTER
10. Gases and Their Properties.
11. Intermolecular Forces and Liquids.
12. The Solid State.
13. Solutions and Their Behavior.
Part IV: THE CONTROL OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS.
14. Chemical Kinetics: The Rates of Chemical Reactions.
15. Principles of Chemical Reactivity: Equilibria.
16. Principles of Chemical Reactivity: The Chemistry of Acids and Bases.
17. Principles of Chemical Reactivity: Other Aspects of Aqueous Equilibria.
18. Principles of Chemical Reactivity: Entropy and Free Energy.
19. Principles of Chemical Reactivity: Electron Transfer Reactions.
Part V: THE CHEMISTRY OF THE ELEMENTS.
20. Nuclear Chemistry
21. The Chemistry of the Main Group Elements.
22. The Chemistry of the Transition Elements.
23. Carbon: Not Just Another Element.
24. Biochemistry.
25. Environmental Chemistry: Earth's Environment, Energy and Sustainability.
APPENDICES
Appendix A: Using Logarithms and Solving Quadratic Equations.
Appendix B: Some Important Physical Concepts.
Appendix C: Abbreviations and Useful Conversion Factors.
Appendix D: Physical Constants.
Appendix E: A Brief Guide to Naming Organic Compounds.
Appendix F: Values for the Ionization Energies and Electron Attachment Enthalpies of the Elements.
Appendix G: Vapor Pressure of Water at Various Temperatures.
Appendix H: Ionization Constants for Aqueous Weak Acids at 25ºC.
Appendix I: Ionization Constants for Aqueous Weak Bases at 25ºC.
Appendix J: Solubility Product Constants for Some Inorganic Compounds at 25ºC.
Appendix K: Formation Constants for Some Complex Ions in Aqueous Solution at 25°C.
Appendix L: Selected Thermodynamic Values.
Appendix M: Standard Reduction Potentials in Aqueous Solution at 25ºC.
Appendix N: Answers to Check Your Understanding Questions, Applying Chemical Principles Questions and Selected Study Questions.
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Student Solutions Manual for Chemistry & Chemical Reactivity
ISBN: 9780357851838
This useful manual contains fully worked-out solutions to all of the blue-numbered exercises in the text, giving students a way to check their answers and ensure that they took the correct steps to arrive at an answer.
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OWLv2 is an all-in-one online learning platform for chemistry that delivers an ebook, multimedia learning activities, auto-graded assessments and analytics through an accessible platform. It supports you whether you're teaching synchronous or asynchronous courses; during and outside of class; and whether you teach in-person, hybrid or fully online. You can integrate it into your Learning Management System with automatic grade return. Developed by chemists, OWLv2 elevates thinking through mastery learning, empowering students to work at their own pace to understand each concept and skill. It does this better than other digital products through algorithmic question randomization, high-quality question authoring, instant and question-specific feedback and powerful analytics. The randomization of three variables in a question--chemicals, numbers and context--creates thousands of unique questions and ensures that no two students get the same question, and neither does a single student making subsequent attempts.