General Chemistry : Atoms First
ISBN: 9780321571632 | 0321571630
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 2/12/2009
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For two-semester courses in General Chemistry. McMurry/Fay's atoms-first text progresses from the simplest building blocks to successively more complex concepts enabling the authors to tell a cohesive story about chemistry that follows an intuitive logic. This unified thread of ideas helps students build a better foundation and ultimately gain a deeper understanding of chemical concepts. Students can more easily understand the micro-to-macro connections between unobservable atoms and the observable behavior of matter in daily life, and are brou... MORE
| Brief table of contents | |
| Chemistry: Matter and Measurement | |
| The Structure and Stability of Atoms | |
| Periodicity and the Electronic Structure of Atoms | |
| Ionic Bonds and Some Main-Group Chemistry | |
| Covalent Bonds and Molecular Structure | |
| Mass Relationships in Chemical Reactions | |
| Reactions in Aqueous Solution Chapter 8-Thermochemistry: Chemical Energy | ... MORE |
| Gases: Their Properties and Behavior | |
| Liquids, Solids, and Phase Changes | |
| Solutions and Their Properties | |
| Chemical Kinetics | |
| Chemical Equilibrium | |
| Aqueous Equilibria: Acids and Bases | |
| Applications of Aqueous Equilibria | |
| Thermodynamics: Entropy, Free Energy, and Equilibrium | |
| Electrochemistry | |
| Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Water | |
| The Main- Group Elements | |
| Transition Elements and Coordination Chemistr? | |
| Comprehensive Table of Contents | |
| Chemistry: Matter and Measurement | |
| Approaching Chemistry: Experimentation | |
| Chemistry and the Elements | |
| Elements and the Periodic Table | |
| Some Chemical Properties of the Elements | |
| Experimentation and Measurement | |
| Mass and Its Measurement | |
| Length and Its Measurement | |
| Temperature and Its Measurement | |
| Derived Units: Volume and Its Measurement | |
| Derived Units: Density and Its Measurement | |
| Derived Units: Energy and Its Measurement | |
| Accuracy, Precision, and Significant Figures in Measurement | |
| Rounding Numbers | |
| Calculations: Converting from One Unit to Another | |
| Interlude - Chemicals, Toxicity, and Risk | |
| - The Structure and Stability of Atoms | |
| Conservation of Mass and the Law of Definite Proportions | |
| The Law of Multiple Proportions and Dalton's Atomic Theory | |
| Atomic Structure: Electrons | |
| Atomic Structure: Protons and Neutrons | |
| Atomic Numbers | |
| Atomic Masses and the Mole | |
| Nuclear Chemistry: The Change of One Element into Another | |
| Radioactivity | |
| Nuclear Stability | |
| Interlude -The Origin of Chemical Elements | |
| - Periodicity and the Electronic Structure of Atoms | |
| Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum | |
| Electromagnetic Energy and Atomic Line Spectra | |
| Particlelike Properties of Electromagnetic Energy | |
| Wavelike Properties of Matter | |
| Quantum Mechanics and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle | |
| Wave Functions and Quantum Numbers | |
| The Shapes of Orbitals | |
| Quantum Mechanics and Atomic Line Spectra | |
| Electron Spin and the Pauli Exclusion Principle | |
| Orbital Energy Levels in Multielectron Atoms | |
| Electron Configurations of Multielectron Atoms | |
| Some Anomalous Electron Configurations | |
| Electron Configurations and the Periodic Table | |
| Electron Configurations and Periodic Properties: Atomic Radii Interlude -Compact Fluorescent Lights: Saving Energy Through Atomic Line Spectra Cha | |
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Educated at Harvard and Columbia, John McMurry has taught approximately 17,000 students in general and organic chemistry over a 30-year period. A Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University since 1980, Dr. McMurry previously spent 13 years on the faculty at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He has received numerous awards, including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1969–71), the National Institute of Health Career Development Award (1975–80), the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (1986–87), and the Max Planck Research Award (1991).
Professor of Chemistry Robert C. Fay has been teaching general and inorganic chemistry at Cornell University since 1962. Known for his clear, well-organized lectures, Dr. Fay was the 1980 recipient of the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Harvard University and the University of Bologna, Italy. He has been an NSF Science Faculty Fellow at the University of East Anglia and the University of Sussex, England, and a NATO/Heineman Senior Fellow at Oxford University.
