Study Guide for Chemistry

About our author 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.

Brief Contents



Matter, Measurement, and Problem Solving
Atoms and Elements
Molecules and Compounds
Chemical Reactions and Chemical Quantities
Introduction to Solutions and Aqueous Reactions
Gases
Thermochemistry
The Quantum-Mechanical Model of the Atom
Periodic Properties of the Elements
Chemical Bonding I: The Lewis Model
Chemical Bonding II: Molecular Shapes, Valence Bond Theory, and Molecular Orbital Theory
Liquids, Solids, and Intermolecular Forces
Solids and Modern Materials
Solutions
Chemical Kinetics
Chemical Equilibrium
Acids and Bases
Aqueous Ionic Equilibrium
Free Energy and Thermodynamics
Electrochemistry
Radioactivity and Nuclear Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Biochemistry
Chemistry of the Nonmetals
Metals and Metallurgy
Transition Metals and Coordination Compounds

Appendix I Common Mathematical Operations in Chemistry Appendix II Useful Data Appendix III Answers to Selected Exercises Appendix IV Answers to In-Chapter Practice Problems