Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change - Hardcover

Silberberg, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0697395979 ISBN 13: 9780697395979

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1999

Synopsis

This general chemistry text offers a four-step problem-solving approach to promote learning, not memorizing, and an art program that consistently combines photographs of chemical events with a co-ordinated molecular view and with the equation that describes that event.

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Thinking Logically to Solve Problems.
A four-step problem-solving approach is used to facilitate student reasoning, not memorizing, toward a solution.

Plan. After a problem is stated, the steps are verbally planned to show how to move from what is known to what is unknown.

Solve. Next, the plan is executed by naming each calculation step and then carrying out the math.

Check. The next step is to check that the answer makes sense both chemically and mathematically. Sometimes a Comment appears about common pitfalls and alternative approaches.

Practice. A follow-up problem that requires the same concept to solve it appears immediately after the sample problem, and a brief, worked-out solution is provided at the end of the chapter.
Visualizing the Models of Chemistry.
Text discussions and illustrations work together to emphasize the fact that matter and its changes are ultimately molecular in nature.
Through the latest advances in computer graphics and chemical information software, the book incudes accurate depictions of molecules and crystals, with atoms color-coded by element. A new standard of realism is depicted with this new edition.
3-Level Depictions of Chemical Events.
Ground-breaking art program that consistently combines photographs of chemical events with a coordinated molecular view of that event and with the equation that symbolically and quantitatively describes that event.
'Chemical Connections.'
Interdisciplinary science boxes appear throughout the book to show how chemistry is related to other sciences. Nearly all biochemical topics occur within this feature as do essays on specific topics in geology, industrial technology, environmental issues, and so forth.
'Tools of the Chemistry Laboratory.'
Laboratory boxes that describe some of the instruments commonly used in chemical research. The principle behind the measuring instrument pertains directly to the topic at hand in the text.
Galleries.
Single or multi-page illustrated summaries of concepts and applications. For example, Chapter 11 has a full-page gallery that applies the properties of liquids to everyday events.
Interchapter. Found between Chapters 13 and 14, this is a specially designed, multi-page gallery of text and art that reviews and visually summarizes the major ideas presented in the first semester.
Family Portraits of the Elements.
Two-page summaries of the properties of each group of elements include photographs of the elements in each group and summary graphs.
Wide Range of End-of-Chapter Problems.
The end-of-chapter review problems provide a large amount of additional practice.

Concept Review Questions test students' general understanding of key ideas in the chapter.

Skill-Building Exercises are written in pairs, with one of each pair answered in the back of the book. These exercises begin simply and increase gradually in difficulty.

Problems in Context apply the skills learned to interesting scenarios and examples.

These three types of problems, which are keyed by chapter section, are followed by a group of Comprehensive Problems that are presented in any order, include problems from every section, and often call on concepts and skills learned in earlier chapters.
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About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0697395979
• ISBN 13: 9780697395979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1216