Chemistry
An Atoms-Focused Approach
Second Edition
7 July 2017
NOT JUST ATOMS-FIRST, ATOMS-FOCUSED
With Chemistry: An Atoms-Focused Approach, students see the world from a particulate point of view in every chapter. By starting with the smallest particles and assembling them into more elaborate structures, students better understand how the properties of substances are directly linked to their atomic and molecular structures. The authors, who have over two decades of combined experience teaching atoms-first, have gone beyond reorganising the topics and emphasised the particulate nature of matter in the text, art and problems.
NEW AND UNIQUE MOLECULAR VISUALISATION PEDAGOGY
New co-author Stacey Lowery Bretz brings innovative molecular visualisation pedagogy to the text and media. At the beginning of each chapter, Bretz has created a new Particulate Review—a diagnostic about important prior knowledge to interpret particulate images—and Particulate Preview—a short series of questions on a particulate image that ask students to extend their knowledge about upcoming material in the chapter. At the end of each chapter a new Visual Problem Matrix has been added to the Visual Problems.
INNOVATIVE MEDIA SUPPORTS PROBLEM SOLVING AND VISUAL LEARNING
Smartwork5 offers instructors a sophisticated, user-friendly platform that ties directly to the text's new visualisation pedagogy, including extensive answer-specific feedback and hints. Over two hundred new questions are designed to support the new visualisation pedagogy in the text and 150 tutorial problems offer step-by-step assistance by breaking down problems into manageable parts. The second edition features new and improved ChemTour Animations. These ninety-five tutorial animations have been updated to support lecture, lab and independent student learning.
COAST: A CONSISTENTLY APPLIED, EASY-TO-REMEMBER PROBLEM-SOLVING STRATEGY
Chemistry provides an effective and memorable problem-solving model consistently throughout the book, ancillaries and homework system. Using the acronym COAST (Collect and Organise, Analyse, Solve and Think about it), Chemistry's problem-solving model is introduced in the first chapter and applied in every Sample Exercise, Smartwork5 feedback and every problem in the solutions manual. In the second edition, simpler one-step Sample Exercises have combined Collect, Organise and Analyse into one step.
DISTINCT END-OF-CHAPTER PROBLEM-SOLVING SUMMARIES
The Problem-Solving Summary provides a quick reference that includes type of problem, concepts and equations to use, and references to Sample Exercises that model the approach. Students that use the text mostly for problem-solving help can use the Problem Solving Summaries as a guide to the types of problems covered in each chapter.
With Chemistry: An Atoms-Focused Approach, students see the world from a particulate point of view in every chapter. By starting with the smallest particles and assembling them into more elaborate structures, students better understand how the properties of substances are directly linked to their atomic and molecular structures. The authors, who have over two decades of combined experience teaching atoms-first, have gone beyond reorganising the topics and emphasised the particulate nature of matter in the text, art and problems.
NEW AND UNIQUE MOLECULAR VISUALISATION PEDAGOGY
New co-author Stacey Lowery Bretz brings innovative molecular visualisation pedagogy to the text and media. At the beginning of each chapter, Bretz has created a new Particulate Review—a diagnostic about important prior knowledge to interpret particulate images—and Particulate Preview—a short series of questions on a particulate image that ask students to extend their knowledge about upcoming material in the chapter. At the end of each chapter a new Visual Problem Matrix has been added to the Visual Problems.
INNOVATIVE MEDIA SUPPORTS PROBLEM SOLVING AND VISUAL LEARNING
Smartwork5 offers instructors a sophisticated, user-friendly platform that ties directly to the text's new visualisation pedagogy, including extensive answer-specific feedback and hints. Over two hundred new questions are designed to support the new visualisation pedagogy in the text and 150 tutorial problems offer step-by-step assistance by breaking down problems into manageable parts. The second edition features new and improved ChemTour Animations. These ninety-five tutorial animations have been updated to support lecture, lab and independent student learning.
COAST: A CONSISTENTLY APPLIED, EASY-TO-REMEMBER PROBLEM-SOLVING STRATEGY
Chemistry provides an effective and memorable problem-solving model consistently throughout the book, ancillaries and homework system. Using the acronym COAST (Collect and Organise, Analyse, Solve and Think about it), Chemistry's problem-solving model is introduced in the first chapter and applied in every Sample Exercise, Smartwork5 feedback and every problem in the solutions manual. In the second edition, simpler one-step Sample Exercises have combined Collect, Organise and Analyse into one step.
DISTINCT END-OF-CHAPTER PROBLEM-SOLVING SUMMARIES
The Problem-Solving Summary provides a quick reference that includes type of problem, concepts and equations to use, and references to Sample Exercises that model the approach. Students that use the text mostly for problem-solving help can use the Problem Solving Summaries as a guide to the types of problems covered in each chapter.