GENERAL CHEMISTRY

by Peter Atkins

This manual is an introduction and comprehensive reference book in the area of general chemistry. Features include: strategy sections, which help students to problem solve; end of chapter problems at varied difficulty levels in order to test the knowledge students have aquired; case studies with case problems; and numerous pedagogical aids. New to this edition is the addition of extra case problems and guest boxes, and the rewriting of chapters 1-4 with reorganized discussion of the role of electron pairs. Available with this text are a study guide, a solutions manual, an instructors manual, a test bank, overhead transparencies, videotaped lecture demonstrations and a videodisc of lecture demonstrations and chemical illustrations.

Genres: Chemistry, Science, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Reference

989 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Peter William Atkins is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being.

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