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For one-semester courses in Preparatory Chemistry Builds 21st century and problem solving skills, preparing students for success Now in its 6th Edition, the best-selling Introductory Chemistry continues to encourage student interest by showing how chemistry manifests in students’ daily lives. Author Nivaldo Tro draws upon his classroom experience as an award-winning instructor to extend chemistry from the laboratory to the student’s world, capturing student attention with relevant applications and an engaging writing style. The text provides a superior teaching and learning experience, enabling deep conceptual understanding, fostering the development of problem-solving skills, and encouraging interest in chemistry with concrete examples. Extending chemistry from the lab to the student’s world, the text reveals that anyone can master chemistry. Refined to meet its purpose of teaching relevant skills, the 6th Edition includes new questions, data, and sections to help students build the 21st century skills necessary to succeed in introductory chemistry and beyond. Already a visual text, in this edition the art has been further refined and improved, making the visual impact sharper and more targeted to student learning. The new edition also includes new Conceptual Checkpoints, a widely embraced feature that emphasises understanding rather than calculation, as well as a new category of end-of-chapter questions called Data Interpretation and Analysis, which present real data in real life situations and ask students to analyse and interpret that data. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

Introductory Chemistry, SI Edition

• Title Page


• Copyright Page


• Contents


• Preface


• 1 The Chemical World


• 1.1 Sand and Water


• 1.2 Chemicals Compose Ordinary Things


• 1.3 The Scientific Method: How Chemists Think


• EVERYDAY CHEMISTRY: Combustion and the Scientific Method


• 1.4 Analyzing and Interpreting Data


• Identifying Patterns in Data


• Interpreting Graphs


• 1.5 A Beginning Chemist: How to Succeed


• Self-Assessment Quiz


• Key Terms


• Exercises


• Answers to Skillbuilder Exercises


• Answers to Conceptual Checkpoints


• 2 Measurement and Problem Solving


• 2.1 The Metric Mix-up: A $125 Million Unit Error


• 2.2 Scientific Notation: Writing Large and Small Numbers


• 2.3 Significant Figures: Writing Numbers to Reflect Precision


• Counting Significant Figures


• Exact Numbers


• CHEMISTRY IN THE MEDIA: The COBE Satellite and Very Precise Measurements That Illuminate Our Cosmic


• 2.4 Significant Figures in Calculations


• Multiplication and Division


• Rounding


• Addition and Subtraction


• Calculations Involving Both Multiplication/Division and Addition/Subtraction


• 2.5 The Basic Units of Measurement


• The Base Units


• Prefix Multipliers


• Derived Units


• 2.6 Problem Solving and Unit Conversion


• Converting Between Units


• General Problem-Solving Strategy


• 2.7 Solving Multistep Unit Conversion Problems


• 2.8 Unit Conversion in Both the Numerator and Denominator


• 2.9 Units Raised to a Power


• CHEMISTRY AND HEALTH: Drug Dosage


• 2.10 Density


• Calculating Density


• Density as a Conversion Factor


• CHEMISTRY AND HEALTH: Density, Cholesterol, and Heart Disease