Zumdahl Chemistry

Key differences between 9th and 8th editions

• Time lapse between current and previous publications: 5 years (2012 vs 2008).
• The Zumdahl's Chemistry text was first published in 1986.
• New emphasis on systematic problem solving now appears in the applications of dimensional analysis.
• New critical thinking questions have been added throughout the Ninth Edition of Zumdahl's text.
• New Interactive Examples, end-of-chapter questions and problems.
• New CHEMWORK Problems have been added to the end-of-chapter problems throughout the text to test students' understanding of core concepts.
• Revised and updated art program.
• New section 1.6 Learning to Solve Problems Systematically in Chapter 1.
• New section 3.11 The Concept of Limiting Reactant in Chapter 3, which emphasizes calculating the amounts of products that can be obtained from each reactant.
• New section 9.6 Photoelectron Spectroscopy (PES) in Chapter 9 covers the technique that can be used to determine the relative energies of electrons in individual atoms as well as in molecules.
• Enhanced OWL (online web learning) integration: for the Ninth Edition, OWL now includes more parameterized end-of-chapter questions.
• InfoTrac Student Collections are specialized databases expertly drawn from the Gale Academic One library.
• HYBRID Version contains the main printed text while delivering all the end-of chapter exercises online in OWL, the online learning system for chemistry.