Chemical Principles (Zumdahl)

Key differences between 8th and 7th editions

• Time lapse between current and previous publications: 4 years (2016 vs 2012).
• The First edition of Zumdahl's Chemical Principles text was published in 1992.
• New ChemWork problems ans end-of-chapter questions.
• A list of Key Terms has been added at the end of each chapter along with an Outline that reviews each chapter.
• An interactive and customizable electronic version of the text -- the Cengage YouBook -- features a text edit tool that allows to modify the textbook narrative as needed.
• Chapter 3: New section 3.11 on complex problem solving process explains that usually there is more than one solution method.
• Chapter 9: New Chemical Insights box on hydraulic fracturing.
• Chapter 15: New Chemical Insights box Fern to chemistry.
• Chapter 16: New Chemistry Explorers box on Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, a pioneer in the use of X-ray crystallographic techniques.
• New Appendix 6 Deriving the Integrated Rate Laws
• Hybrid version of the textbook contains the same content as the full text, but end-of-chapter questions are supplied online in OWL online system. Access to this OWL is included with every new hybrid text.