Learning Chemistry A Study Plan

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Here you are taking chemistry, perhaps for the first time. Whatever your reasons for choosing to study chemistry, you can look forward to learning many new and exciting ideas. 

Features in This Text Help You Study Chemistiy 

Throughout each chapter, boxes titled Chemistry Link to Health and Chemistry Link to the Environment help you connect the chemical concepts you are learning to real-life situations. Many of the figures and diagrams use macro-to-micro illustrations to depict the atomic level of organization of ordinary objects. These visual models illustrate the concepts described in the text and allow you to see the world in a microscopic way. 

At the end of each chapter, you will find several study aids that complete the chapter. Chapter Reviews provide a summary and Concept Maps show the connections between important topics. The Key Terms, which are in boldface type within the chapter, are listed with their definitions. Understanding the Concepts, a set of questions that use art and models, helps you visualize concepts. Additional Questions and Problems and Challenge Problems provide additional exercises to test your understanding of the topics in the chapter. The problems are paired, which means that each of the odd-numbered problems is matched to the following even-numbered problem. The answers to all the Study Checks, as well as the answers to all the odd-numbered problems are provided at the end of the chapter. If the answers provided match your answers, you most likely understand the topic if not, you need to study the section again. 

After some chapters, problem sets called Combining Ideas test your ability to solve problems containing material from more than one chapter. 

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SAMPLE PROBLEM 1.3 A Study Plan for Learning Chemistry... 

LEARNING GOAL Develop a study plan for learning chemistry. 

A study plan for learning chemistry utilizes the features in the text and develops an active learning approach to study. 

Chapter 1, Chemistry in Our Lives, introduces the concepts of chemicals and chemistry, discusses the scientific method in everyday terms, and guides students in developing a study plan for learning chemistry. 

Chapter 1, Chemistry in Our Lives, introduces the concepts of chemicals and chemistry, discusses the scientific method in everyday terms, guides students in developing a study plan for learning chanistry, and now has a new section of Key Math Skills, which reviews basic math needed for learning chemistry. The section on Writing Numbers in Scientific Notation was moved from Chapter 2 and is now part of the section of Key Math Skills in this chapter. 

Marks, R., Bertram, S., Eilks, I. (2008). Learning chemistry and beyond with a lesson plan on potato crisps, which follows a socio-critical and problem-oriented approach to chemistry lessons - A case study. Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 9, 267-276. 

This chapter will focus on o- and p-quinone methides and will be divided into two parts. The first will present methods for generating quinone methides in photochemical and solvolysis reactions and will emphasize how the structure and stability of quinone methides dictates the pathways for their formation. The second section will discuss the results of experiments to characterize the reactivity of quinone methides with nucleophilic reagents, and the broader implications of these results. The scope of this presentation will reflect our interests, and will focus on studies carried out at Buffalo. We considered briefly writing a comprehensive chapter on quinone methides, but abandoned this idea when we learned of Steven Rokita s plans to edit a 12-chapter text, which presents an extremely comprehensive coverage of the chemistry and biochemistry of quinone methides.9... 

Scientists learn about chemistry in three ways. They observe, or watch, substances. They study substances and they do experiments. They try to make substances change and then record what happens. Scientists carefully plan how they learn about chemistry. They often use a system called the scientific method to answer questions they might have. 

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