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Chemical Principles
The Quest for InsightSeventh Edition| ©2016New Edition Available Peter Atkins; Loretta Jones; Leroy Laverman
Written for calculus-inclusive general chemistry courses, Chemical Principles helps students develop chemical insight by showing the connections between fundamental chemical ideas and their applications. Beginning with a detailed picture of the atom, Chemical Princip...
Written for calculus-inclusive general chemistry courses, Chemical Principles helps students develop chemical insight by showing the connections between fundamental chemical ideas and their applications. Beginning with a detailed picture of the atom, Chemical Principles builds toward chemistry’s frontier, continually demonstrating how to solve problems, think about nature and matter, and visualize chemical concepts as working chemists do. It also offers an exceptional level of support to help students develop their mathematical and problem-solving skills.
For the new edition, Chemical Principles takes a modular approach, with coverage organized as a series of brief Topics within 11 major areas of focus, including a refresher on the fundamentals of chemistry and an online-only section on techniques.
Chemical Principles is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform, Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for chemistry students. Achieve includes an interactive e-Book as well as our renowned assessments.
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Written for calculus-inclusive general chemistry courses, Chemical Principles helps students develop chemical insight by showing the connections between fundamental chemical ideas and their applications. Beginning with a detailed picture of the atom, Chemical Principles builds toward chemistry’s frontier, continually demonstrating how to solve problems, think about nature and matter, and visualize chemical concepts as working chemists do. It also offers an exceptional level of support to help students develop their mathematical and problem-solving skills.
For the new edition, Chemical Principles takes a modular approach, with coverage organized as a series of brief Topics within 11 major areas of focus, including a refresher on the fundamentals of chemistry and an online-only section on techniques.
Chemical Principles is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform, Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for chemistry students. Achieve includes an interactive e-Book as well as our renowned assessments.
Achieve features a flexible suite of resources to support learning core concepts, visualization, problem-solving, and assessment. This powerful platform houses all student and instructor resources. You can assign what you want or download resources as you need. Powerful analytics and quick insights in Achieve pair with exceptional content to provide an unrivaled learning and teaching experience.
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- Practice/homework problems with signature hints, targeted feedback, and detailed solutions - In every question, help features are embedded to guide students through common misconceptions. Atkins’ problems directly link to both the complete text and the relevant section level.
- Fundamentals Diagnostic Quiz. This quiz provides an overview of high school chemistry to help students start in the right place for their college chemistry course.
- Cumulative Exercise for each focus area challenges students to combine their understanding from several parts of the Focus.
- Lab videos are connected to figures in the text to help students visualize laboratory experiments and chemical reactions.
New to This Edition
Chemical Principles is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform, Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for chemistry students. Achieve includes an interactive e-Book as well as our renowned assessments. Instructors can assign or download instructor resources and take advantage of powerful analytics and quick insights to inform teaching.
The new seventh edition of Atkins, Chemical Principles includes:
Achieve combines acclaimed automatically graded online homework with a powerful e-book and an extensive suite of engaging multimedia learning resources. Problems feature hints for when students get stuck, answer-specific feedback to help them learn from their mistakes, and solutions to reinforce what they’ve learned.
New Modular Format
- The seventh edition presents its material in 85 Topics modules, organized into 11 Focus areas. This makes the text more flexible for instructors, who now can easily teach or skip topics as their course requires, and easier for students, with briefer Topics modules making homework assignments more manageable. The Focus section on techniques is available online.
Road Maps
- Each Focus begins with a map that illustrates the interconnectedness between each topic. Instructors can use this feature to determine how best to move through the text.
Interludes
- The applications sections appear between Focuses and show how chemistry is put to work in a variety of modern contexts.
Two-Column Approach for Kinetics vs. Thermodynamics
- Specific to Focus 5, a two-column approach juxtaposes kinetics vs. thermodynamics in the coverage of chemical equilibrium, equilibrium calculations, and the response of equilibria to changes in conditions.
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Table of Contents
Introduction and orientation
A Matter and energy
B Elements and atoms
C Compounds
D Nomenclature
E Moles and molar masses
F The determination of composition
G Mixtures and solutions
H Chemical equations
I Precipitation Reactions
J Acids and bases
K Redox reactions
L Reaction stoichiometry
M Limiting reactants
Focus 1: Atoms1A Investigating atoms1B Quantum theory1C Wavefunctions and energy levels1D The hydrogen atom1E Many-electron atoms1F Periodicity Focus 2: Molecules2A Ionic bonding2B Covalent bonding2C Beyond the octet rule2D The properties of bonds2E The VSEPR Model2F Valence-Bond theory2G Molecular Orbital theory Focus 3: Bulk matter3A The nature of gases3B The gas laws3C Gases in mixtures and reactions3D Molecular motion3E Real gases3F Intermolecular forces3G Liquids3H Solids3I Inorganic materials3J Materials for new technologiesInterlude Ceramics and Glasses Focus 4: Thermodynamics4A Work and heat4B Internal energy4C Enthalpy4D Thermochemistry4E Contributions to enthalpy4F Entropy4G The molecular enterpretation of entropy4H Absolute entropies4I Global changes in entropy4J Gibbs free energyInterlude Free Energy and Life Focus 5: Equilibrium5A Vapor pressure5B Phase diagrams of one-component systems5C Phase equilibria in two-component systems5D Solubility5E Molality5F Colligative properties5G Chemical equilibrium5H Alternative forms of the equilibrium constant5I Equilibrium calculations5J The response of equilibria to changes in conditionsInterlude Homeostasis Focus 6: Reactions6A The nature of acids and bases6B The pH scale6C Weak acids and bases6D The pH of aqueous solutions6E Polyprotic acids and bases6F Autoprotolysis and pH6G Buffers6H Acid-base titrations6I Solubility equilibria6J Precipitation6K Representing redox reactions6L Galvanic cells6M Standard potentials6N Applications of standard potentials6O ElectrolysisInterlude Practical cells Focus 7: Kinetics7A Reaction rates7B Integrated rate laws7C Reaction mechanisms7D Models of reactions7E Catalysis Focus 8: Main-group elements8A Periodic trends8B Hydrogen8C Group 1: The alkali metals8D Group 2: The alkaline earth metals8E Group 13: The boron family8F Group 14: The carbon family8G Group 15: The nitrogen family8H Group 16: The oxygen family8I Group 17: The halogens8J Group 18: The noble gases Focus 9: The d-block9A Periodic trends of the d-block elements9B Selected d-block elements: A survey9C Coordination compounds9D The electronic structure of d-metal complexes Focus 10: Nuclear Chemistry10A Nuclear decay10B Radioactivity10C Nuclear energy Focus 11: Organic Chemistry11A Structures of aliphatic hydrocarbons11B Reactions of aliphatic hydrocarbons11C Aromatic compounds11D Common functional groups11E Polymers and biological macromoleculesInterlude Impact on Technology: Fuels Major Techniques (Online Only)1 Infrared and microwave spectroscopy2 Ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy3 X-ray diffraction4 Chromatography5 Mass spectrometry6 Nuclear magnetic resonance7 Computation
Authors

Peter Atkins
Peter Atkins is a fellow of Lincoln College in the University of Oxford and the author of about 70 books for students and a general audience. His texts are market leaders around the globe. A frequent lecturer in the United States and throughout the world, he has held visiting professorships in France, Israel, Japan, China, and New Zealand. He was the founding chairman of the Committee on Chemistry Education of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and was a member of IUPAC’s Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division.

Loretta Jones
Loretta L. Jones is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Northern Colorado. She taught general chemistry there for 16 years and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 13 years. She earned a BS in honors chemistry from Loyola University, an MS in organic chemistry from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry as well as a D.A. in chemical education from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her physical chemistry research used electron paramagnetic resonance to investigate motion in liquids. Her chemical education research focuses on helping students to understand the molecular basis of chemistry through visualization. In 2001, she chaired the Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science and Education. In 2006 she chaired the Chemical Education Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS). She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the coauthor of award-winning multimedia courseware. In 2012 she received the ACS Award for Achievement in Research in the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry.

Leroy Laverman
Leroy E. Laverman is a teaching professor and holds a split appointment between the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Washington State University and received his Ph.D. from U.C. Santa Barbara where he studied ligand exchange reaction mechanisms in metalloporphyrins. He has been teaching chemistry at UCSB since 2000 and continues to instruct students in general chemistry and upper division laboratory courses.
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