Synopses & Reviews
Experiments in General Chemistry Lab Manual contains 41 traditional experiments sequenced to follow the text. At least one experiment is provided for each chapter of the text. Each experiment is carefully organized with introductory remarks, a discussion of the experiment's purpose, a pre-laboratory assignment, step-by-step procedures, and a convenient section for results and questions. New to this edition are ten Inquiries with Limited Guidance. Following the conceptual focus of the text, these new experiments allow students to work at their own intellectual levels, design their own experiments, and analyze the data from those experiments without help or prompting from the manual. These are not tied directly to any chapter of the text, and can be integrated at the instructor's discretion throughout the course.
Synopsis
Each experiment in this manual was selected to match topics in the textbook and includes an introduction, a procedure, a page of pre-lab exercises about the concepts the lab illustrates, and a report form. Some have a scenario that places the experiment in a real-world context. In addition, each experiment has a link to a set of references and helpful online resources.
About the Author
Darrell Ebbing has taught general chemistry for more than thirty years and is now retired from Wayne State University. He received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Indiana University.Steven D. Gammon is a professor of chemistry at Western Washington University and a leader in the development of multimedia-based software for chemical education. He has contributed greatly to the increased emphasis on conceptual understanding in the text.