Chemistry, AP* Edition (Chang), 11th Edition

What's New

New Author Kenneth Goldsby, Florida State University, has joined Raymond Chang as an author on the eleventh edition of Chemistry. Ken's background in inorganic chemistry has added insight into content and problems, and his extensive work with undergraduate students, both in the classroom and in the laboratory, reinforces Raymond's long tradition of understanding and respecting the student's view of the material as well as the teacher's.

New organization with the chapters in the latter part of the text reorganized as follows:
Chapter 17: Entropy, Free Energy, and Equilibrium
Chapter 18: Electrochemistry
Chapter 19: Nuclear Chemistry
Chapter 20: Chemistry in the Atmosphere
Chapter 21: Metallurgy and the Chemistry of Metals
Chapter 22: Nonmetallic Elements and Their Compounds
Chapter 23: Transition Metals Chemistry and Coordination Compounds
Chapter 24: Organic Chemistry
Chapter 25: Synthetic and Natural Organic Polymers

Reorganization of these chapters enables those who teach nuclear chemistry to introduce this material right after the coverage of electrochemistry. In addition to recognizing the growing importance of nuclear medicine and the ongoing debate about the role nuclear power will play in addressing future energy needs, the placement of nuclear chemistry before atmospheric chemistry aids the discussion of radon pollution.
Numerous new end-of-chapter problems have been added to this new edition. A number of these problems test the student's ability to interpret graphical data and explain concepts. A new type of problems, called Interpreting, Modeling & Estimating, has been added to this edition. These problems are designed to teach the students to solve real-world problems, and they require the art of estimation based on appropriate assumptions, finding the necessary information, and formulating a plan for obtaining ballpark answers in many cases. In Section 1.10, the new problem type is described and a worked example is provided.

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New Review of Concepts sections have been added to most chapters. This is a quick knowledge test for the student to gauge his or her understanding of the concept just presented. The answers to the Review of Concepts are available in the Student Solutions Manual and on the companion website in Connect.

New Chemistry in Action boxed essays are added to Chapter 7 (Quantum Dots), Chapter 12 (Dialysis), and Chapter 13 (Pharmacokinetics). We have also updated Chemistry in Action boxed essays on White Fat Cells, Brown Fat Cells, and Cure for Obesity in Chapter 6, Buckyballs and Graphene in Chapter 10, and the Shroud of Turin in Chapter 13.

Many chapters and sections have new and revised content based on the comments from reviewers and users. Some examples include:

• Chapter 1—new Section 1.10 on Real-World Problem Solving: Information, Assumptions, and Simplifications including new Example 1.9.
• Chapter 3—revised Section 3.9 Limiting Reagents including new Example 3.16 showing how synthetic chemists often have to adjust excess reagents to compensate for side reactions.
• Chapter 4—new Example 4.4 on writing molecular, ionic, and net ionic equations involving weak diprotic and triprotic acids.
• Chapter 6—new is the change of the symbol E to U for internal energy to be consistent with accepted usage.
• Chapter 7—new Example 7.6 on quantum mechanics.
• Chapter 9—Example 9.11 provides insight into drawing Lewis structures for compounds containing elements in the third period and beyond, and addresses the controversy in drawing these structures.
• Chapter 13—new section on pseudo first-order reactions.
• Chapter 19—expanded and updated coverage of medical application of carbon-14 dating and new content on the island of stability.

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