.Principles of Chemistry: A Molecular Approach, 4th Edition. DescriptionFor two-semester courses in General ChemistryThis package includes Mastering Chemistry.Actively engage students to become expert problem solvers and critical thinkers, using a streamlined approachPrinciples of Chemistry: A Molecular Approachpresents core concepts without sacrificing rigor, enabling students to make connections between chemistry and their lives or future careers. Drawing upon his classroom experience as an award-winning educator, Professor Tro extends chemistry to the student’s world by capturing student attention with examples of everyday processes and a captivating writing style. Throughout this student-friendly text, chemistry is presented visually through multi-level images that help students see the connections between the world around them (macroscopic), the atoms and molecules that compose the world (molecular), and the formulas they write down on paper (symbolic).The 4th Edition pairs digital, pedagogical innovation with insights from learning design and educational research to create an active, integrated, and easy-to-use framework. Reach every student by pairing this text with Mastering ChemistryMastering™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and improves results for each student.The fully integrated and complete media package allows instructors to engage students before they come to class, hold them accountable for learning during class, and then confirm that learning after class.
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The Fourth Edition of Niva Tro’s Chemistry: A Molecular Approach reinforces development of 21st century skills including data interpretation and analysis, problem solving and quantitative reasoning, applying conceptual understanding to new situations and peer-to-peer collaboration.
Learn more about.Actively engage students in learning chemistry. Streamlined coverage of all the necessary topics required for a general chemistry course makes this presentation ideal for professors who want a book that only covers the topics they need. At only 19 chapters, this text has no separate nonmetals, metals or coordination compounds chapters. New - 16 Key Concept Videos for a total of 74 combine artwork from the textbook with 2D and 3D animations to create a dynamic on-screen viewing and learning experience.
These short videos include narration and brief live-action clips of author Nivaldo Tro, explaining the key concepts in general chemistry to give students the foundation they need. Students interact when the video stops and poses a question that they must answer before continuing. Each video also includes a follow-up question that is assignable in Mastering Chemistry.
Newly Interactive - Conceptual Connections allow students to interact with all conceptual connections within the Pearson eText, allowing students to study on their own and test their understanding in real-time. Complete with answer-specific feedback written by the author himself, these interactives help students extinguish misconceptions and deepen their understanding of important topics, making reading an active experience. New - 24 Interactive Worked Examples for a total of 125 are digital versions of select worked examples from the text that instruct students how to break down problems using Tro’s “Sort, Strategize, Solve, and Check” technique. The Interactive Worked Examples pause in the middle and require the student to interact by completing a step in the example. Each example has a follow-up question that is assignable in Mastering Chemistry.Help students move from novice to expert problem-solvers. New - Ready-to-Go Study Tools in the Mastering Chemistry Study Area help students master the toughest topics (as identified by professors and fellow students completing homework and practicing for exams).
Key Concept Videos, Interactive Worked Examples, and problem sets with answer-specific feedback are all in one easy to navigate place to keep students focused and give them the scaffolded support they need to succeed. New - Missed This? Feature appears in the end-of-chapter Self Assessment Quizzes and each odd-numbered Problems by Topic exercise. Provides sections to read and videos to watch to help students remediate where necessary. Tro’s four-step “Sort, Strategize, Solve, and Check” problem-solving approach in the worked examples helps students connect the chemistry concepts to the problem and to its solution by developing an explicit conceptual plan for each problem. Reach every student with MasteringTeach your course your way: Your course is unique.
So whether you’d like to build your own auto-graded assignments, foster student engagement during class, or give students anytime, anywhere access, Mastering gives you the flexibility to easily create your course to fit your needs. With Learning Catalytics, you’ll hear from every student when it matters most. You pose a variety of questions that help students recall ideas, apply concepts, and develop critical-thinking skills. Your students respond using their own smartphones, tablets, or laptops. You can monitor responses with real-time analytics and find out what your students do — and don’t — understand.
Then, you can adjust your teaching accordingly, and even facilitate peer-to-peer learning, helping students stay motivated and engaged. Learning Catalytics includes prebuilt questions for every key topic in General Chemistry. Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules provide organized material for every tough topic in General Chemistry.
Created for and by instructors, the modules provide a guide for easy-to-use assignments for before and after class plus in-class activities with clicker questions and questions in Learning Catalytics™. Modules can be easily accessed via Mastering Chemistry. New - Ready-to-Go Practice Modules are available for students to use on their own, even when their professor doesn’t assign the modules.Empower each learner: Each student learns at a different pace.
Actively engage students in learning chemistry. 16 Key Concept Videos for a total of 74 combine artwork from the textbook with 2D and 3D animations to create a dynamic on-screen viewing and learning experience. These short videos include narration and brief live-action clips of author Nivaldo Tro, explaining the key concepts in general chemistry to give students the foundation they need. Students interact when the video stops and poses a question that they must answer before continuing. Each video also includes a follow-up question that is assignable in Mastering Chemistry. Newly Interactive - Conceptual Connections allow students to interact with all conceptual connections within the Pearson eText, allowing students to study on their own and test their understanding in real-time. Complete with answer-specific feedback written by the author himself, these interactives help students extinguish misconceptions and deepen their understanding of important topics, making reading an active experience.
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24 Interactive Worked Examples for a total of 125 are digital versions of select worked examples from the text that instruct students how to break down problems using Tro’s “Sort, Strategize, Solve, and Check” technique. The Interactive Worked Examples pause in the middle and require the student to interact by completing a step in the example. Each example has a follow-up question that is assignable in Mastering Chemistry.Help students move from novice to expert problem-solvers. Ready-to-Go Study Tools in the Mastering Chemistry Study Area help students master the toughest topics (as identified by professors and fellow students completing homework and practicing for exams). Key Concept Videos, Interactive Worked Examples, and problem sets with answer-specific feedback are all in one easy to navigate place to keep students focused and give them the scaffolded support they need to succeed. Missed This? Feature appears in the end-of-chapter Self Assessment Quizzes and each odd-numbered Problems by Topic exercise.
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Provides sections to read and videos to watch to help students remediate where necessary. 64 For Practice problems in the Pearson eText provide wrong-answer feedback and links that direct students to correlating places in the eText and media.Empower students to visualize and understand chemistry. Chapter 5 creates more topically-focused coverage–Chemical Reactions and Solutions have been divided into two separate chapters (now Chapters 4 and 5): one on chemical reactions (including stoichiometry), and another on solutions (including aqueous reactions). This new organization allows a sharper focus in each chapter and reduces the cognitive load for students.Reach every student with Mastering. Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules provide organized material for every tough topic in General Chemistry.
Created for and by instructors, the modules provide a guide for easy-to-use assignments for before and after class plus in-class activities with clicker questions and questions in Learning Catalytics™. Modules can be easily accessed via Mastering Chemistry.
New - Ready-to-Go Study Tools are available for students to use on their own, even when their professor doesn’t assign the modules. 16 Key Concept Videos for a total of 74 videos that combine artwork from the textbook with 2D and 3D animations to create a dynamic on-screen viewing and learning experience. These short videos include narration and brief live-action clips of author Nivaldo Tro explaining every key concept in general chemistry. 24 new Interactive Worked Examples for a total of 125 add to the digital versions of select worked examples from the text that make Tro’s unique problem-solving strategies interactive. These digital versions instruct students how to break down problems using Tro’s “Sort, Strategize, Solve, and Check” technique. Like the Key Concept Videos, Interactive Worked Examples stop in the middle and force the student to interact by completing a step in the example.
The examples also have a follow-up question that is assignable in Mastering Chemistry. Updated - Data Interpretation and Analysis Problems help students build skills in analyzing and interpreting data. Now more easily Assignable in Mastering Chemistry, this new category of questions called Data Interpretation and Analysis questions uses real data from real life situations to ask students to analyze, interpret and interact with data, providing practice in reading graphs, digesting tables, and making data-driven decisions. New - Learning Objective Tagging maps tutorials, end of chapter problems, sections and figures from the book and other instructional content in Mastering for the general chemistry course. A new view of the content in Mastering clusters content together so instructors can easily select a 'group of problems' and rich media and see how assigned content works together to meet learning objectives. Table of Contents1.
Matter, Measurement, and Problem Solving2. Atoms and Elements3. Molecules and Compounds4. Chemical Reactions and Chemical Quantities5.
Introduction to Solutions and Aqueous Reactions6. The Quantum-Mechanical Model of the Atom9.
Periodic Properties of the Elements10. Chemical Bonding I: The Lewis Model11. Chemical Bonding II: Molecular Shapes, Valence Bond Theory, and Molecular Orbital Theory12. Liquids, Solids, and Intermolecular Forces13. Solids and Modern Materials14. Chemical Kinetics16.
Chemical Equilibrium17. Acids and Bases18. Aqueous Ionic Equilibrium19. Free Energy and Thermodynamics20. Radioactivity and Nuclear ChemistryAppendix I Common Mathematical Operations in Chemistry Appendix II Useful DataAppendix III Answers to Selected ExercisesAppendix IV Answers to In-Chapter Practice Problems. About the Author(s)Nivaldo Tro has been teaching college Chemistry since 1990 and is currently teaching at Santa Barbara Community College.
He received his Ph.D. In chemistry from Stanford University for work on developing and using optical techniques to study the adsorption and desorption of molecules to and from surfaces in ultrahigh vacuum. He then went on to the University of California at Berkeley, where he did postdoctoral research on ultrafast reaction dynamics in solution. Professor Tro has been awarded grants from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, the Research Corporation, and the National Science Foundation to study the dynamics of various processes occurring in thin adlayer films adsorbed on dielectric surfaces.
Professor Tro lives in Santa Barbara with his wife, Ann, and their four children, Michael, Ali, Kyle, and Kaden. In his leisure time, Professor Tro enjoys mountain biking, surfing, and being outdoors with his family.
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