Publisher's Synopsis
An introduction to the fundamentals of chemistry, this text is suited to students who need help with mathematical manipulations, as well as reading and writing scientific material.;The book features: extensive use of everyday analogies to introduce chemical principles; use of the periodic table in chapters 4 and 5 for deducing electronic configurations makes configurations closer to physical reality (this approach de-emphasizes mathematics in learning to write electronic configurations); flowcharts in the margin aim to help students work through dimensional analysis and stoichiometry problems, as well as inorganic nomenclature; "items for special attention" at the end of each chapter emphasize the points students often confuse, such as similar sounding chemical terms; end of chapter problems are graduated in difficulty, and of three types - self-tutorial, sectional and general; and algebra review and hints on calculator use can be found in appendix 1.
