Basic Chemistry, 6th Edition © 2020
Basic Chemistry, published by Pearson, combines moderate pacing and engaging materials along with structured blended support to ensure every student comes away from the course with a solid understanding of fundamental concepts.
- New visual program designed to assist with learning and retention
- Lessons incorporate familiar real-life topics to keep students interested
- Stronger emphasis on problem solving skills that can be used beyond the classroom
- This program is accompanied by Pearson's Mastering® platform with eText
High School Chemistry Curriculum with Digital Integration
Show how chemistry impacts the world while helping students master a range of skills they can apply to other classes.
Enhanced Problem-Solving
The challenges and features within the texts and lessons push students to think through the how of science and build up their skills in finding solutions.
Improved Student Engagement
Basic Chemistry connects the subject to what students already know from previous courses and innovations in medicine, health, and the environment to keep them interested.
Better Understanding
Updated illustrations of chemistry concepts help to clarify ideas so students will remember and build upon them throughout the school year.
Reach Every Student
Mastering® Chemistry from Pearson allows teachers to track students’ progress and work with them prior to class so that nobody falls behind.
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Basic Chemistry Key Features
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Build Up Students’ Problem-Solving Skills
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Engage Students with a More Applied Focus
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Increase Student Understanding with the Updated Art Program
Build Up Students’ Problem-Solving Skills
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Deepening ConnectionsMarginal notes, end-of-chapter problems, and an expanded media program deepen the connection between key math skills and why they are so important to success in the course.
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Pedagogical FeaturesNew pedagogical features in the worked examples throughout the text help students build stronger problem-solving skills, setting them up for success in this and future courses.
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Connect FeatureAn updated Connect feature has been added to the Analyze the Problem boxes to specify information that relates the Given and Need sections to help students identify and connect the components within a word problem and set up a solution strategy.
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Practice ProblemsNew Practice Problems appear in the margin, showing students which practice problems align with the content and sample problems throughout the text.
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Challenge QuestionsChallenge Questions at the end of each chapter provide complex questions which promote critical thinking, group work, and cooperative learning environments.
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Study Check QuestionsNew Expanded Study Check Questions within each sample problem help students review problem-solving strategies and their comprehension of the material.
Engage Students with a More Applied Focus
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Engage QuestionsUpdated Engage questions reflect research on the way students learn and retain information and are designed to help students associate new content with knowledge available in long term memory. Students succeed when continually quizzed on new material, which practices the retrieval of new information. Self quizzes appear in the margin.
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Chemistry LinksUpdated Chemistry Links to Health and Chemistry Links to the Environment appear throughout the text and relate chemistry concepts to real-life topics in health, the environment, and medicine that interest students. Topics include weight loss and gain, hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia, antacids, gout, kidney stones, sweeteners, and essential amino acids. Follow-up questions appear throughout the text.
Increase Student Understanding with the Updated Art Program
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Art ProgramThe Art Program presents chemical art that is now more understandable than ever before by incorporating sound pedagogical principles and the best learning design principles from educational research on the way today’s students learn and retain knowledge. In-art captions replace long legends, and the flow and size of the art is updated to improve student understanding.
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Connective IllustrationsMacro-to-micro art illustrations enable students to make connections between recognizable objects and their atomic-level representations, helping them to visualize chemistry in everyday life.
Mastering® Chemistry from Pearson
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Get to know Basic Chemistry with Mastering® Chemistry with Pearson eText
Mastering® Chemistry from Pearson
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Next Generation Science Standards
Our solutions are designed to support and correlate to the Next Generation Science Standards.
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Karen Timberlake Author BioThis social studies program emphasizes project-based learning to explore the world’s places, systems, and cultures. It is available as Eastern and Western Hemisphere editions, or a combined World Geography edition. Each one includes strong ELA connections and multiple teaching options.
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William Timberlake Author Bio
Karen’s husband, William Timberlake, who is the coauthor of this text, is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Los Angeles Harbor College, where he taught preparatory and organic chemistry for 36 years. He received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University and his master’s degree in organic chemistry from the University of California at Los Angeles.
When the Professors Timberlake are not writing textbooks, they relax by playing tennis, ballroom dancing, hiking, traveling, trying new restaurants, cooking, and enjoying their grandchildren, Daniel and Emily.
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Table of Contents
1 Chemistry in Our Lives
1.1 Chemistry and Chemicals
1.2 Scientific Method: Thinking Like a Scientist
1.3 Studying and Learning Chemistry
1.4 Key Math Skills for Chemistry
1.5 Writing Numbers in Scientific Notation
2 Chemistry and Measurements
2.1 Units of Measurement
2.2 Measured Numbers and Significant Figures
2.3 Significant Figures in Calculations
2.4 Prefixes and Equalities
2.5 Writing Conversion Factors
2.6 Problem Solving Using Unit Conversion
2.7 Density
3 Matter and Energy
3.1 Classification of Matter
3.2 States and Properties of Matter
3.3 Temperature
3.4 Energy
3.5 Specific Heat
3.6 Energy and Nutrition
4 Atoms and Elements
4.1 Elements and Symbols
4.2 The Periodic Table
4.3 The Atom
4.4 Atomic Number and Mass Number
4.5 Isotopes and Atomic Mass
5 Electronic Structure of Atoms and Periodic Trends
5.1 Electromagnetic Radiation
5.2 Atomic Spectra and Energy Levels
5.3 Sublevels and Orbitals
5.4 Orbital Diagrams and Electron Configurations
5.5 Electron Configurations and the Periodic Table
5.6 Trends in Periodic Properties
6 Ionic and Molecular Compounds
6.1 Ions: Transfer of Electrons
6.2 Ionic Compounds
6.3 Naming and Writing Ionic Formulas
6.4 Polyatomic Ions
6.5 Molecular Compounds: Sharing Electrons
7 Chemical Quantities
7.1 The Mole
7.2 Molar Mass
7.3 Calculations Using Molar Mass
7.4 Mass Percent Composition
7.5 Empirical Formulas
7.6 Molecular Formulas
8 Chemical Reactions
8.1 Equations for Chemical Reactions
8.2 Balancing a Chemical Equation
8.3 Types of Chemical Reactions
8.4 Oxidation—Reduction Reactions
9 Chemical Quantities in Reactions
9.1 Conservation of Mass
9.2 Mole Relationships in Chemical Equations
9.3 Mass Calculations for Chemical Reactions
9.4 Limiting Reactants
9.5 Percent Yield
9.6 Energy in Chemical Reactions
10 Bonding and Properties of Solids and Liquids
10.1 Lewis Structures for Molecules and Polyatomic Ions
10.2 Resonance Structures
10.3 Shapes of Molecules and Polyatomic Ions (VSEPR Theory)
10.4 Electronegativity and Bond Polarity
10.5 Polarity of Molecules
10.6 Intermolecular Forces Between Atoms or Molecules
10.7 Changes of State
11 Gases
11.1 Properties of Gases
11.2 Pressure and Volume (Boyle’s Law)
11.3 Temperature and Volume (Charles’s Law)
11.4 Temperature and Pressure (Gay-Lussac’s Law)
11.5 The Combined Gas Law
11.6 Volume and Moles (Avogadro’s Law)
11.7 The Ideal Gas Law
11.8 Gas Laws and Chemical Reactions
11.9 Partial Pressures (Dalton’s Law)
12 Solutions
12.1 Solutions
12.2 Electrolytes and Nonelectrolytes
12.3 Solubility
12.4 Solution Concentrations
12.5 Dilution of Solutions
12.6 Chemical Reactions in Solution
12.7 Molality and Freezing Point Lowering/Boiling Point Elevation
12.8 Properties of Solutions: Osmosis
13 Reaction Rates and Chemical Equilibrium
13.1 Rates of Reactions
13.2 Chemical Equilibrium
13.3 Equilibrium Constants
13.4 Using Equilibrium Constants
13.5 Changing Equilibrium Conditions: Le Châtelier’s Principle
14 Acids and Bases
14.1 Acids and Bases
14.2 Brønsted—Lowry Acids and Bases
14.3 Strengths of Acids and Bases
14.4 Dissociation Constants of Weak Acids and Bases
14.5 Dissociation of Water
14.6 The pH Scale
14.7 Reactions of Acids and Bases
14.8 Acid—Base Titration
14.9 Buffers
15 Oxidation and Reduction
15.1 Oxidation and Reduction
15.2 Balancing Oxidation—Reduction Equations Using Half-Reactions
15.3 Electrical Energy from Oxidation—Reduction Reactions
15.4 Oxidation—Reduction Reactions That Require Electrical Energy
16 Nuclear Chemistry
16.1 Natural Radioactivity
16.2 Nuclear Reactions
16.3 Radiation Measurement
16.4 Half-Life of a Radioisotope
16.5 Medical Applications Using Radioactivity
16.6 Nuclear Fission and Fusion
17 Organic Chemistry
17.1 Alkanes
17.2 Alkenes, Alkynes, and Polymers
17.3 Aromatic Compounds
17.4 Alcohols and Ethers
17.5 Aldehydes and Ketones
17.6 Carboxylic Acids and Esters
17.7 Amines and Amides
18 Biochemistry
18.1 Carbohydrates
18.2 Disaccharides and Polysaccharides
18.3 Lipids
18.4 Amino Acids and Proteins
18.5 Protein Structure
18.6 Proteins as Enzymes
18.7 Nucleic Acids
18.8 Protein Synthesis
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