Loose Leaf Version for Introduction to Chemistry - Rich Bauer,James Birk,Pamela Marks

About the book

Introduction to Chemistry, 2e by Bauer/Birk/Marks offers today's student a fresh perspective to the introduction of chemistry. This new textbook offers a conceptual approach to chemistry by starting first with macroscopic phenomena, and then presenting the underlying microscopic detail. Each chapter opens with a real-life scenario that helps students connect abstract chemical concepts to their own lives. The math found in Introduction to Chemistry, 2e is introduced on a need-to-know basis, with "Math Toolboxes" in select chapters to help support the math skills required in that chapter.

Key features

All new Chapter 17, Biochemistry ¿ In response to many faculty who like the approach of this textbook, but also teach Biochemistry, we added a completely new chapter on Biochemistry. The chapter discusses the four classes of biomolecules; proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids.

Math Toolboxes have been reworked, expanded, and now include accompanying end-of-chapter problems. To help students easily reference Math toolboxes, toolbox icons have been added to the text margin which will point students to the appropriate review material.

The authors believe that the best approach to incorporating math involves development of associated math on an as-needed basis with emphasis on concepts that problems are trying to illustrate. This text integrates need-to-know mathematical ideas that are important to chemists into conceptual discussions. Thorough math reviews are provided in math toolboxes that are referenced within appropriate sections of the text and placed at the end of the relevant chapter.

New and Expanded Applications ¿ Because we know how important it is for students to apply chemistry to their world, we have added or expanded, especially medical and environmentally related applications throughout the text, marginal notes, worked examples and end-of-chapter problems.

New and Revised End-of-Chapter Problems. We think it is important to keep problems fresh and up-to-date, so we have added more than 200 new problems and more than 100 revised problems to this edition.

All chapters begin with a scenario involving students in real-life situations.

The problem-solving approach used in this text is supported by worked example boxes. Problem solving in chemistry is much more than algorithmic number crunching. It involves applying principles to solve conceptual as well as numerical problems. Conceptual problems are those that require students to apply their understanding of concepts instead of applying an algorithm. This text emphasizes the underlying concepts when discussing numerical problems within in-chapter worked examples. Many end-of-chapter problems also emphasize conceptual problem solving.

This textbook takes a conceptual approach, teaching the chemistry first and showing students how to use the math with the chemistry.

It is regarded as having the best art program in the market. A conceptual understanding of chemistry requires students to visualize molecular-level representations of macroscopic phenomena, as well as to connect macroscopic and molecular-level understandings to symbolic representations. To help students connect verbal descriptions to molecular-level representations, this book has an extensive art program. You'll notice many examples of zoomed art where pictures or other macroscopic images have close-ups that show the particular phenomena at a molecular level.