Chemistry:Concepts and Applications 1st Edition  (English, Paperback, Zumdahl Steven S.)

Known for helping students develop the qualitative, conceptual foundation that gets them thinking like chemists, this market-leading text is designed for students with solid mathematical preparation and prior exposure to chemistry. The unique organization of the text supports this qualitative-to-quantitative approach. A strong emphasis on models and everyday applications of chemistry combines with a thoughtful, step-by-step problem solving approach to build conceptual understanding.

Key Feature

• Twenty percent of the hallmark end-of-chapter problems, including Challenge exercises, are new. This book's unique organization covers equilibria and acid-base chemistry early, and delays coverage of atomic theory and bonding until the second half of the text
• Chemical Insights boxed essays emphasize applications of chemistry in the real world such as ``The Importance of Oxygen; ``Firewalking: Magic or Science? "; ``Smart Fluids (Magneride system monitor the road surface)
• All of the mathematical operations required for this text are conveniently illustrated in worked-out examples

Table of Contents

• 1. Atoms, Molecules, and Ions
• 2. Stoichiometry
• 3. Types of Chemical Reactions and Solution Stoichiometry
• 4. Gases
• 5. Chemical Equilibrium
• 6. Acids and Bases
• 7. Applications of Aqueous Equilibria
• 8. Energy, Enthalpy, and Thermochemistry
• 9. Spontaneity, Entropy, and Free Energy
• 10. Electrochemistry
• 11. Quantum Mechanics and Atomic Theory
• 12. Bonding: General Concepts
• 13. Covalent Bonding: Orbitals
• 14. Chemical Kinetics
• 15. Liquids and Solids
• 16. Properties of Solutions
• 17. The Representative Elements
• 18. Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry
• 19. Organic and Biochemical Molecules
• Appendix 1. Spectral Analysis
• Appendix 2. Selected Thermodynamic Data
• Appendix 3. Equilibrium Constants and Reduction Potentials
• Answers to Selected Exercises