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Overview
The updated 8th edition of "Introductory Chemistry" is the ideal text to help your students take an active approach to developing quantitative skills, applying scientific reasoning, and learning study skills in chemistry. Active examples throughout the text model ways to approach problem-solving, while new problems at the end of each section give students the opportunity to immediately practice their new skills. A flexible organization allows instructors to adapt the text for any common approach to the introductory chemistry course, including atoms-first. The 8th edition is now available in WebAssign, a powerful online learning system with new tools for learning core concepts and dynamic problems that feature just-in-time feedback and point-of-use remediation.
- New for this edition, assignments in WebAssign help students understand core concepts and learn from mistakes with answer-specific feedback and flexible support resources.
- New digital workbooks — available in WebAssign — integrate text, interactives and questions, offering a guided reading experience that helps students engage with the text.
- New problems at the end of each section offer students immediate opportunities to practice what they learn.
- Active examples throughout the text guide students through the process of solving chemistry problems with a four-part process: analyze, identify, construct and check.
- How To features throughout the text offer just-in-time math remediation and can be used alongside Math Readiness Bootcamps on WebAssign that provide even more support.
- Learn It Now boxes throughout the text encourage students to learn how to study efficiently, learn key concepts and develop active learning strategies.
- Chapter introductions relate chemistry to real-world scenarios, showing students why the chemistry course matters.
- A flexible organization allows instructors to teach topics in the order that makes sense for their course, including taking an atoms-first approach.
2. Matter and Energy.
3. Measurement and Chemical Calculations.
4. Introduction to Gases.
5. Atomic Theory: The Nuclear Model of the Atom.
6. Chemical Nomenclature.
7. Chemical Formula and Relationships.
8. Chemical Reactions.
9. Chemical Change.
10. Quantity Relationships in Chemical Reactions.
11. Atomic Theory: The Quantum Model of the Atom.
12. Chemical Bonding.
13. Structure and Shape.
14. The Ideal Gas Law and Its Applications.
15. Gases, Liquids, and Solids.
16. Solutions.
17. Acid-Base (Proton-Transfer) Reactions.
18. Chemical Equilibrium.
19. Oxidation-Reduction (Electron Transfer) Reactions.
20. Nuclear Chemistry.
21. Organic Chemistry.
22. Biochemistry.
Chapter Summaries.
Appendix I: Chemical Calculations.
Appendix II: The SI System of Units.
Glossary.