Many readers find it difficult to master the fundamental skills that are essential to succeeding in chemistry. Now with this helpful book, they'll quickly learn how to break chemistry down into basic steps. Author David Klein presents the material in a way that will motivate and empower them.

Chapter 1. Numbers and Units. Chapter 2. Counting Atoms and Molecules. Chapter 3. Balancing Reactions and Stoichiometry. Chapter 4. The Ideal Gas Law. Chapter 5. Energy and Enthalpy. Chapter 6. Orbitals, Bonds, and Counting Electrons. Chapter 7. Drawing Lewis Structures. Chapter 8. Molecular Geometry and Hybridization States. Chapter 9. Exponents and Logarithms. Appendix. Answers. Index.

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Numbers in Chemistry  * Units - dimensional analysis  * Significant figures in calculations  * Orders of Magnitude Drawing Molecules  * Chemical formulas  * Lewis Structures (Octet Rule)  * Resonance Structures  * Molecular Masses from Chemical Formulas Naming Molecules  * Molecular  * Ionic The Mole  * Molar mass  * Interconverting moles, mass, and number of chemical entities  * Mass % from the chemical formula Stoichiometry  * Balancing equations  * Limiting reactant  * Theoretical, actual and % yields Gases  * Ideal Gas Law  * Solving Gas problems  * Real Gases: the van der Waals Equation Energy  * Heat and Work  * State Functions vs. Pathways  * Enthalpy  * Hess?s Law  * Enthalpy of Formation Phases of Matter  * Intermolecular Forces  * Hydrogen Bonding  * Phase Diagrams