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Title

How to solve general chemistry problems / R.S. Boikess.

Author

Boikess, Robert S.

Publication

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2009.

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Description

ix, 325 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This is a self-teaching text that helps students solve problems found in most general chemistry textbooks. Its sequence of chapters is arranged to coincide closely with the sequence in most popular general chemistry textbooks, making it easy for today's student to use it as a supplement to any general chemistry textbook.

Subject

Chemistry > Problems, exercises, etc

Genre/Form

Problems and exercises

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Chapter 1 How to solve a problem -- Chapter 2 Units and measurement -- The SI -- Conversion of units -- Interconversion of celsius (centigrade) and fahrenheit temperature readings -- Measurement -- Significant figures -- Exponential notation -- Calculations with significant figures -- Chapter 3 Atomic weight, amount, and the mole -- Mass -- amount relationships -- Units of amount -- Unit conversions -- Review -- Symbol -- Chapter 4 Mass -- amount relationships in chemical formulas -- Use of the unit mole -- Mass relationships in chemical formulas -- Determining the formula of a compound -- Calculations from the formula of a compound -- Calculation of the formula of a compound -- Chapter 5 Mass -- amount relationships in chemical reactions : stoichiometry -- Chemical equations -- Chapter 6 The Mass -- amount relationships in chemical reactions : mixtures -- Chapter 7 Gas laws -- Boyle's law -- Standard pressure -- The Effect of change of temperature -- Absolute zero -- Charles's law -- Standard conditions -- Change of pressure and temperature -- Avogadro's law -- The Ideal gas law equation PV = nRT -- Densities of gases -- Partial pressure : Dalton's law of partial pressures -- Stoichiometry of gases -- Vapor pressure -- Relative humidity -- Diffusion and effusion
• Chapter 8 Thermochemistry -- Chapter 9 Quantum theory and the structure of atoms -- Electronic configurations of atoms -- Chapter 10 Structure of molecules -- Resonance -- Hybridization -- Molecular geometry -- Chapter 11 Concentration of solutions -- Mass -- mass expressions -- Volume -- volume expressions -- Amount -- amount expressions -- Mixed expressions of concentration -- Conversion of concentration expressions -- Chapter 12 Properties of solutions -- Chapter 13 Kinetics -- Chapter 14 Chemical equilibrium and equilibrium constants -- The Equilibrium state -- Chemical change and equilibrium -- Equilibrium constants from pressures -- A General method for solving equilibrium problem -- Chapter 15 Acid and base equlibria I -- The Concept of formality and a second definition of molarity -- Conjugate acids and bases -- Other equlibria of weak electrolytes -- Polyprotic acids -- Chapter 16 Acids and bases II Neutralization and equivalents -- Buffers -- The Main reactions approximation -- Chapter 17 Solubility products and complex ions -- Solubility products and hydrogen sulfide -- Equilibrium -- Solubility products and the ammonia equilibrium -- Solubility product equilibria involving selected weak acids -- Complex ions and solubility products
• Chapter 18 Thermodynamics First law of thermodynamics -- Second law of thermodynamics -- Free energy and K -- Chapter 19 Oxidation -- reduction processes -- Balancing redox equations -- The Method of half -- reactions -- The Method of change in oxidation number -- Equivalents in redox processes -- Faraday's law and electrochemical equivalence potentials -- Effect of change of concentration -- Calculation of equilibrium constants -- Free energy and potential -- Calculation of the potential of a half -- reaction from the potentials of other half -- reactions -- Appendix -- Answers to problems -- Index

ISBN

• 9780131542730 (alk. paper)
• 0131542737 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008004254

OCLC

• 191758451
• SCSB-10044895

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library