Enhanced with new problems and applications, the Fourth Edition of CHEMISTRY FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS provides a concise, thorough, and relevant introduction to chemistry that prepares you for further study in any engineering field. Updated with new conceptual understanding questions and applications specifically geared toward engineering, the book emphasizes the connection between molecular properties and observable physical properties and the connections between chemistry and other subjects such as mathematics and physics.
- Up-to-date coverage reflects chemistry in the news and technological advances of special importance in the engineering field as related to chemistry.
- Conceptual Problems appear in an end-of-chapter section that emphasizes molecular scale visualization and other nonalgorithmic exercises.
- A problem-solving approach in example problems employs a “think first” approach to help studentsunderstand why a problem is solved the way it is solved and what that means conceptually.
- Chapter-opening "Insights Into" boxes include engineering applications that raise questions that are answered later in the chapter to help students understand the connections between chemistry concepts and engineering applications. These boxes are supported by end-of-chapter problems.
- "Focus on Problem Solving" sections at the end of each chapter support the book's problem-solving emphasis through a mix of multi-step quantitative and qualitative questions that require students to think outside the context of the information given and focus on the process of finding a solution to a problem, not the solution itself.
- “MathConnections” point out the mathematical underpinnings of several of the chemistry concepts presented in the text to help engineering students forge mental connections between other courses of study, such as Calculus.
- New engineering and materials applications and “Insight” themes cover critical materials, natural gas mining, urban air pollution, and lithium ion batteries.
- Enhanced coverage of acid/base chemistry and equilibrium includes new discussions of titrations and titration curves.
- A stronger emphasis on conceptual problems throughout the book is enhanced by a new section of end-of-chapter problems that emphasize molecular level visualization and nonalgorithmic problem solving to help foster conceptual understanding that goes beyond manipulating equations.
- The concept of systems thinking and the role of chemistry in complex systems is introduced in several places in the book.
- Improved molecular orbital art helps students visualize structures and concepts.
- Coverage of ionic size and trends in ionic sizers is now consolidated into Chapter 6.
1. Introduction to Chemistry
2. Atoms and Molecules
3. Molecules, Moles, and Chemical Equations
4. Stoichiometry
5. Gases
6. The Periodic Table and Atomic Structure
7. Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure
8. Molecules and Materials
9. Energy and Chemistry
10. Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
11. Chemical Kinetics
12. Chemical Equilibrium
13. Electrochemistry
14. Nuclear Chemistry
Lawrence S. Brown
Lawrence S. Brown (Ph.D, Princeton University) is a Senior Lecturer and coordinator for the general chemistry for engineers course at Texas A&M University.
Tom Holme
Tom Holme (Ph.D, Rice University) is a chemistry professor at Iowa State University and Director of the ACS Examinations Institute.
