Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity (with CD-ROM)
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Book Description
Quality writing, seamless technology integration, and a rich ancillary package are hallmarks of John C. Kotz and Paul M. Treichel, Jr.'s CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL REACTIVITY. Now thoroughly revised and enhanced, the fifth edition of this best-selling text will bring students to a new level of understanding and appreciation for chemistry's vital role in their lives. By emphasizing the close interrelationship of the macroscopic, symbolic, and particulate levels of chemistry, Kotz and Treichel provide an important organizing principle that carries throughout the book. The text's significantly revised art program reveals these three levels in engaging detail. This new art program is fully integrated with CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL REACTIVITY'S unparalleled CD-ROM, GENERAL CHEMISTRY INTERACTIVE, VERSION 3.0. With hundreds of guided simulations, animations, and video clips, as well as new Intelligent Tutors that guide students step-by-step through problems, GENERAL CHEMISTRY INTERACTIVE is the benchmark learning tool by which all others are measured--and it is included with every new copy of the text.
About the Author
John C. Kotz, a State University of New York Distinguished Teaching Professor at the College at Oneonta, was educated at Washington and Lee University and Cornell University. He held National Institutes of Health postdoctoral appointments at the University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology in England and at Indiana University.
He has co-authored three textbooks in several editions (INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL REACTIVITY, and THE CHEMICAL WORLD) and the GENERAL CHEMISTRYNOW CD-ROM. He has also published on his research in inorganic chemistry and electrochemistry.
He was a Fulbright Lecturer and Research Scholar in Portugal in 1979 and a Visiting Professor there in 1992. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Chemical Education (University of Wisconsin, 1991-1992) and at Auckland University in New Zealand (1999). He has been an invited speaker at a meeting of the South African Chemical Society and at the biennial conference for secondary school chemistry teachers New Zealand. He was recently named a mentor of the U. S. Chemistry Olympiad Team.
He has received several awards, among them a State University of New York Chancellor's Award (1979), a National Catalyst Award for Excellence in Teaching (1992), the Estee Lecturership in Chemical Education at the University of South Dakota (1998), the Visiting Scientist Award from the Western Connecticut Section of the American Chemical Society (1999), and the first annual Distinguished Education Award from the Binghamton (NY) Section of the American Chemical Society (2001). Paul M. Treichel received his B. S. degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1958 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1962. After a year of postdoctoral study in London, he assumed a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is currently Helfaer Professor of Chemistry. He served as department chair from 1986 through 1995. He had held visiting faculty positions in South Africa (1975) and in Japan (1995). Currently, he teaches courses in general chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and scientific ethics. Dr. Treichel's research in organometallic and metal cluster chemistry and in mass spectrometry, aided by 75 graduate and undergraduate students, has led to over 170 papers in scientific journals.
Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity (with CD-ROM),John C. Kotz,Paul M. Treichel,Brooks Cole,003033604X,Chemistry,Chemistry - General,Science,Science/Mathematics,Science / Chemistry / General
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