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Introductory Chemistry, 3/E
Nivaldo J. Tro, Westmont College

ISBN-10: 0136003826
ISBN-13: 9780136003823

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2009
Format: Cloth; 848 pp
Published: 01/07/2008

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Introductory Chemistry, Third Edition is designed for a one-semester, introductory or preparatory chemistry course. Students taking this course need to develop problem-solving skills—but they also must see why these skills are important to them and to their world. Introductory Chemistry extends chemistry from the laboratory to the student’s world. It motivates students to learn chemistry by demonstrating how it plays out in their daily lives.

The third edition continues to employ Tro’s proven pedagogical features: the Solution Map provides a visual approach showing students how to think through a problem and formulate a solution strategy; the unique Three-Column Problem-Solving Procedures describe a problem-solving procedure while demonstrating how it is applied to two different examples. In addition, the Conceptual Checkpoint features now include questions that prompt students to visualize the molecular world around them.

Introductory Chemistry, Third Edition can be packaged with MasteringChemistry™, the most advanced chemistry homework and tutorial system available. This online homework and tutoring system utilizes the Socratic Method to coach students through problem-solving techniques, offering hints and simpler questions on request. It tutors students individually with feedback specific to their errors. MasteringChemistry™ helps students learn, not just practice.

Features

CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING

Conceptual Checkpoints — These conceptual questions strategically placed at the end of selected sections enhance understanding of chemical principles, encourage students to stop and think about the ideas just presented, and provide a tool for self-assessment. Answers and explanations are given at the end of each chapter.
Molecular Art – Many concepts are illustrated using a two-part visual image: A photograph of a real-world object and a depiction of what is taking place on the molecular level, either superimposed or shown as a magnified breakout.

DEVELOPING PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS

Solution Maps - Many of the Examples employ a unique visual approach in which students are shown how to draw a solution map for a problem. They are taught to outline the steps, using conversion factors and equations, needed to get from the given to the unknown.
Two-Column Examples - All but the simplest Examples are presented in a unique two-column format. The left column explains the purpose of each step, while the right column shows how the step is executed. .
Three-Column Problem-Solving Procedures - Numerous and specific procedures for solving particular types of problems are presented in a unique three-column format. The first column outlines the problem-solving procedure and explains the reasoning that underlies each step. The second and third columns show how the steps are implemented for two typical Examples.
Skill-builder Exercises - Every worked Example is followed by at least one similar, but un-worked, Skill-builder problem, allowing students to make an immediate test of the problem-solving techniques they have just learned.
For More Practice – Every worked Example is also followed by a For More Practice feature. This links the student to additional in-chapter examples and end-of-chapter problems that will provide an opportunity for students to practice the particular skills covered in each worked example.

VISUALIZATION: CONNECTING THE MACROSCOPIC AND MICROSCOPIC WORLDS

Two-part visual images - These illustrated concepts show a photograph of a real-world object or process, and a depiction of what is taking place on the molecular level, either superimposed or shown as a magnified breakout.
Molecular illustrations - Many molecular formulas in the text are depicted not only with structural formulas, but also with space-filling drawings of the molecules for greater clarity and vividness. In addition, micro/macro illustrations are included.

CREATING INTEREST IN CHEMISTRY

Chapter Openers – Every chapter opens with a description of an everyday situation or practical application that clearly demonstrates the importance of the material covered in that chapter. Also, each chapter opener image combines macroscopic and molecular views that bring the content to life for the student.
Interest Boxes — There are four different interest boxes:

- Everyday Chemistry Boxes — demonstrates the importance of chemistry in everyday situations such as bleaching your hair.

- Chemistry in the Media Boxes — discuss chemical topics that have been in the news such as the controversy over oxygenated fuels.

- Chemistry and Health Boxes — focus on biomedical topics as well as those related to personal health and fitness.

- Chemistry in the Environment Boxes — discuss environmental issues that are closely tied to chemistry, such as acid rain and the ozone hole.

REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT

Chapter in Review - Each chapter ends with a review consisting of two sections:

- Chemical Principles, the left column summarizes the key principles they should have taken away from the chapter and the right column tells why each topic is important for them to understand.

- Chemical Skills, the left column describes the key skills they should know how to do after reading the chapter and the right column contains a NEW worked example illustrating that skill. (Each worked example in the chapter review is new from the in-chapter worked example which means twice as many worked examples in the book)

MORE Student Exercises - All chapters contain exercises divided into four types: questions, problems, cumulative problems, and highlight problems. In this edition, Tro has included over 200 new exercises at the request of our adopters and reviewers.

New To This Edition

MORE! Conceptual Checkpoints – There is a 30% increase in the number of these strategically located conceptual questions that enhance understanding of chemical principles, encourage students to stop and think about the ideas just presented, and provide a tool for self-assessment. These checkpoints now also include questions that prompt students to visualize the molecular world.
MORE! Many more illustrations showing molecular depictions of a real-world object or process have a magnified breakout to better convey a proper sense of scale.
NEW! A new section on the role of energy within chemical and physical change (Section 3.9) has been added to Chapter 3.
NEW! A new section on the stoichiometry of enthalpy (Section 8.7) has been added to Chapter 8.
NEW! p-scale coverage in Section 14.9 has been expanded to include pOH.
NEW! The coverage of balancing of the redox reactions has been expanded in Section 16.4.
NEW! A For More Practice feature has been added at the end of each worked Example that lists the review examples and end-of-chapter problems that provide more opportunity to practice the skill(s) covered in the Example. Students have specifically asked for connections between Examples and end-of-chapter problems,
MORE Student Exercises - All chapters contain exercises divided into four types: questions, problems, cumulative problems, and highlight problems. In the third edition, Tro has included over 200 new exercises at the request of our adopters and reviewers.
MasteringChemistry™ is the most advanced chemistry homework and tutorial system available. This online homework and tutoring system utilizes the Socratic Method to coach students through problem-solving techniques, offering hints and simpler questions on request. It tutors students individually with feedback specific to their errors. MasteringChemistry™ helps students learn, not just practice.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Chemical World

Chapter 2: Measurement and Problem Solving

Chapter 3: Matter and Energy

Chapter 4: Atoms and Elements

Chapter 5: Molecules and Compounds

Chapter 6: Chemical Composition

Chapter 7: Chemical Reactions

Chapter 8: Quantities in Chemical Reactions

Chapter 9: Electrons in Atoms and the Periodic Table

Chapter 10: Chemical Bonding

Chapter 11: Gases

Chapter 12: Liquids, Solids, and Intermolecular Forces

Chapter 13: Solutions

Chapter 14: Acids and Bases

Chapter 15: Chemical Equilibrium

Chapter 16: Oxidation and Reduction

Chapter 17: Radioactivity and Nuclear Chemistry

Chapter 18: Organic Chemistry

Chapter 19: Biochemistry

Appendix: Mathematics Review

Glossary

Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises

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Index

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Nivaldo Tro is currently chair of the department of chemistry at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, where he has been a faculty member since 1990. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University, for work on developing and using optical techniques to study the adsorption and desorption of molecules to and from surfaces in ultrahigh vacuum. He then went on to the University of California at Berkeley, where he did post-doctoral research on ultra-fast reaction dynamics in solution. Since coming to Westmont, Professor Tro has been awarded grants from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, from Research Corporation, and from the National Science Foundation to study the dynamics of various processes occurring in thin adlayer films adsorbed on dielectric surfaces. He has twice been honored as Westmont's outstanding teacher of the year and has also received the college's outstanding researcher of the year award.

Nivaldo Tro lives in Santa Barbara with his wife, Ann, and their four children, Michael, Ali, Kyle, and Kaden. In his leisure time, Professor Tro enjoys reading good literature to his children and being outdoors with his family.

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