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The next step is to learn some chemistry. Depending on your background, you may need to read some or all of the essays that describe how to work with modeling data (this information quickly becomes second-nature, especially if you make working these problems part of your regular study routine). Then tackle the problems beginning with Chapter 1. 

The study of chemistry, like most sciences, involves active participation by the student. We suggest briefly reading in your textbook the lecture material for the day, taking good notes in class, perhaps copying those notes as quickly after class as possible, and then read the material in depth and work problems. This book is designed to help you grasp the basic concepts and to help you learn how to work the problems associated with the material. These specific tips will help you in your study of chemistry. 

For the chemist the most useful unit of concentration is molarity (M), which is the moles of solute per liter of solution. Know how to work molarity problems. 

The four chapters in this part contain general plans of attack — how you approach a word problem and what you do with all those words. I introduce the basic vocabulary of math in word problems, and I outline the steps you use for solving any kind of word problem. You see how to work your way through the various units linear, area, volume, rate. And finally, I use a grand example of handling a math word problem to demonstrate the various techniques you use to solve the rest of the problems in the book. 

We now briefly discuss how thermodynamics can work for us or, better, how thermodynamics functions to solve a problem where it can help to provide the answer. We wish to illustrate this for a relatively simple problem how much work is required to compress a unit of gas per unit time (Figure 2.4) from a low to a high pressure. Figure 2.5 schematically gives the path to the answer and the structure of the solution. In fact, the same steps will have to be taken to apply thermodynamics to problems such as the calculation of the heat released from or required for a process, of the position of the chemical or phase equilibrium, or of the thermodynamic efficiency of a process. 

It is our experience that such questions are not put to their best use unless correct answers are also available. Indeed, answers alone are not enough. If you know how to work a problem and find that your answer agrees with the correct one, fine. But what if you work conscientiously, yet cannot solve the problem You then give in to temptation, look up the answer, and encounter yet another dilemma-how in the world did the author get that answer This solutions book has been written with this difficulty in mind. For many of the problems, all of the reasoning involved in getting the correct answer is spelled out in detail. Many of the answers also include cross-references to the text. If you cannot solve a particular problem, these references will guide you to parts of the text that you should review. 

There are many reactions in which different mole ratios of the reactants result in different products. The following Sample Problem will help you understand how to work with these reactions. 

Examine the following Sample Problem to see how to work with mass and particles. 

If your score on the posttest does not show much improvement, take a second look at the questions you missed. Did you miss a question because of an error you made If you can figure out why your answer was incorrect, then you understand the concept and just need to concentrate more on accuracy when taking a test. If you missed a question because you did not know how to work the problem, go back to the lesson and spend more time working on that type of problem. Take the time to understand basic chemistry thoroughly. You need a solid foundation in basic chemistry if you plan to use this information or progress to a higher level. Whatever your score on this posttest, keep this book for review and future reference. 

Gordon Rausser, the dean of the CNR, gave considerable thought to this problem of how to work with the corporate world. He is an economist, and this is partially reflected in the kind of design criteria he used to frame an invitation to the five corporations to bid for the services of the PMB. (See Box 6.1.)... 

The more complex a problem is, the less likely you will be able to see the answer from the start. Therefore you must begin work on the problem without any clear idea of how to work it. If so far you have always seen the answer from the start, working on a complex problem is, in a way, like flying on instruments through a cloud bank when you are used to visual navigation. Often students will just stare at the problem and wait for the answer to hit them. With difficult problems this can be a very long wait. These tips allow you to pursue the answer actively rather than waiting for it to come to you. 

This problem — how to spread disease in a controlled manner — preoccupied the Americans throughout the fifties and sixties. The fact that at no time did a viable solution seem in prospect was no deterrent to further offensive research. The Chemical Corps went about their work with gusto, regardless of this apparently enormous obstacle. 

Or take a case of a discouraged graduate who says his or her college job was "nothing much"— just clerking in a retail store over the holidays. In fact, this experience is quite marketable. Why Because if you are a sales associate in a store at a high-volume time, you have to quickly master many skills, such as how to work with a team, how to provide customer service, and how to learn the merchandise. All of these are problems. 

Another problem is that the standard C library can t easily be extended to handle user-defined class types. For example, the C stdio library knows how to work with all the built-in types, such as integers, strings, and floating point values, but it doesn t know how to work with, say, the Complex type that was defined earlier in this article. 

Your instructor will tell you how to work these problems as a Learning Group. 

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