…Know your audience for this new edition, we have tried t follow this important advice to writers by attending more to the needs of those students who are taking a serious journey through the material. We also know that most general chemistry students have career interests not in chemistry, but in biology, medicine, engineering, environmental and agricultural sciences, and so on. And we understand that general chemistry will be the only college chemistry course of some students, and thus their only opportunity to learn some practical applications of chemistry. We have designed this book for all these students…
…Throughout the text we provide real-world example to enhance the discussion. Examples relevant to the biological sciences, engineering, and the environmental sciences will e found in numerous places. This should help to bring the chemistry alive for these students, and help them understand its relevance to their career interests. It also, in most cases, should help them master core concepts…
1. Mater-Its Properties and Measurement
2. Atoms and the Atomic Theory
3. Chemical Compounds
4. Chemical Reactions
5. Introduction to Reactions in Aqueous Sulutions
6. Gases
7. Thermochemistry
8. Electrons in Atoms
9. The Periodic Table and Some Atomic Properties
10. Chemical Bonding I: Basic Concepts
etc.