Introductory Chemistry shows how chemistry manifests in your daily life. The text and every feature in it are meant to help you learn and succeed in your chemistry course. Award-winning instructor and author Nivaldo Tro draws on his classroom experience to actively engage you, capture your attention with relevant applications, and extend chemistry from the laboratory to your world.
The 7th Edition in SI Units delivers a new Predict feature, Self-Assessment Quizzes, and additional end-of-chapter questions, while expanded active learning tools help you in developing problem-solving skills. An extensive diversity, equity, and inclusion review ensures the content reflects the experiences of all students.
Hallmark features for this title
- 4-step process (Sort, Strategize, Solve and Check) helps students learn how to develop a problem-solving approach.
- 2- & 3-column worked Examples break down problem-solving steps: the 1st column outlines the problem-solving procedure and reasoning of each step; the 2nd and 3rd columns show how to implement the steps with examples.
- The Solution Map is a visual aid that helps students navigate problems.
- For More Practice in each worked Example directs students to opportunities to practice skills from the Example.
- Multipart images depicted through macroscopic, microscopic, and symbolic perspectives help students better visualize and understand chemistry.
- Molecular-level views reveal connections between everyday processes and the activities of atoms and molecules.
New and updated features of this title
- Self-Assessment Quizzes help students check their understanding of the material in the chapter and better prepare for exams.
- Quizzes are located at the end of each chapter.
- Predict feature asks students to predict the outcome of the topic they are about to read. After the student reads the section, Predict
- Follow-up confirms whether the student predicted correctly or incorrectly and why.
- End-of-Chapter questions have been added throughout the book, and numerous end-of-chapter questions have been revised. Many new end-of-chapter questions involve the interpretation of graphs and data.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion review ensures the content reflects the diversity, depth, and breadth of all learners' lived experiences.
- Accessibility of the text has been further improved by updating all the art with color contrast and accessibility in mind.
About the Author
Nivaldo Tro has been teaching college chemistry since 1990 and is currently teaching at Santa Barbara City College. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University for work on developing and using optical techniques to study the adsorption and desorption of molecules to and from surfaces in ultrahigh vacuum. He then went on to the University of California at Berkeley, where he did postdoctoral research on ultrafast reaction dynamics in solution.
Professor Tro has been awarded grants from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, from the Research Corporation, and from the National Science Foundation to study the dynamics of various processes occurring in thin adlayer films adsorbed on dielectric surfaces. Professor Tro lives in Santa Barbara with his wife, Ann. In his leisure time, Professor Tro enjoys cycling, surfing, and being outdoors.
