Chemistry
Principles and Applications
Published in March 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
564 pages
978-0-582-35590-3 (ISBN)
Description
An account of chemistry for students preparing for A levels and similar examinations. The authors worked closely with a consultative committee to ensure their ideas were workable in the classroom and matched the requirements of examinations, both as they are at present and as they are evolving. Each chapter has a variety of devices to help the reader understand the subject. Introductory sentences explain the general thrust of what is to follow, and the text of each chapter is interspersed with examples, so that a particular point can be explained in more detail, a concept illustrated, or an application described. Boxes are used to explain the background to the development of a concept, or to one of its modern applications in industry, medicine or some other aspect of everyday life. Each chapter concludes with what is intended to be a handy revision aid - a summary of the points that have been made. There is also a collection of problems in each chapter to help the student grasp the subject fully.
A synopsis of the central points of the three parts of the book acts as a further revision aid - this includes the most important definitions and formulae from physical chemistry, a summary of useful facts in inorganic chemistry and some reaction schemes from organic chemistry.
A synopsis of the central points of the three parts of the book acts as a further revision aid - this includes the most important definitions and formulae from physical chemistry, a summary of useful facts in inorganic chemistry and some reaction schemes from organic chemistry.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
b&w line drawings, colour and b&w photographs, questions and answers to numerical problems, index
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 210 mm
Weight
1565 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-582-35590-3 (9780582355903)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Introduction: the mole. Part 1 Physical chemistry: atomic structure; chemical bonding; the determination of molecular structure; the properties of gases; solids; changes of state; the properties of mixtures; ions in solution; thermochemistry; equilibrium; the direction of natural change; acids, bases and salts; electrochemistry; chemical kinetics. Part 2 Inorganic chemistry: hydrogen; the s-block elements - group I and II; the p-block elements - group III, IV, V, VI, VII, the p-block elements - the noble gases; the d-block elements. Part 3 Organic chemistry: alkanes - C-H bonds and C-C single bonds; halogenalkanes; alcohols and ethers - C-O single bonds and C-H bonds; carbonyl compounds - the C=O double bond; carboxylic acids and their derivatives; amines - the nitrogen lone pair, chiral molecules; alkenes - the C=C double bond; arenes - the benzene ring; aromatic compounds with functional groups.