Chemistry in Quantitative Language

Book excerpt: Chemistry in Quantitative Language is an invaluable guide to solving chemical equations and calculations. It provides readers with intuitive and systematic strategies to carry out the many kinds of calculations they will meet in general chemistry. This book provides innovative, intuitive, and systematic strategies to tackle any type of calculations encountered in chemistry. Each chapter introduces the basic theories and concepts of a particular topic, focusing on relevant equations. Worked examples illuminate each type of problem, with carefully explained step-by-step solutions. Since chemistry problem can be presented in a number of ways, the examples include several versions of each questions. To help students understand and retain the procedures, the solutions discuss not only what steps to carry out to reach solutions, but why. The second edition contains additional problems at the end of each chapter with varying degrees of difficulty, and many of the original examples have been revised. Book jacket.