CHEM2: Chemistry in Your World (with OWLv2 24-Months Printed Access Card)

Created by the continuous feedback of a "student-tested, faculty-approved" process, CHEM2 delivers a visually appealing, succinct print component, tear-out review cards for students and instructors, and a consistent online offering with OWLv2 that includes an eBook in addition to a set of interactive digital tools - all at a value-based price and proven to increase retention and outcomes. CHEM2 also offers Go Chemistry and Thinkwell mini-video lectures, as well as online homework available through the OWL learning system.

New to the Edition

• END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS have been added to nearly every chapter.
• POWERPOINT LECTURE SLIDES, completely customizable to your specific classroom needs, help you prep for class faster and more efficiently.
• NEW DETACHABLE EQUATION-SPECIFIC CARDS show students how to properly set up conversion and stoichiometric equations while they do their homework. Each card features a "skeleton version" of the equation as well as an example.
• A MORE USER-FRIENDLY, CHEMISTRY-SPECIFIC DESIGN reflects the needs of today's liberal arts students.
• The #1 online homework and learning system for chemistry, OWLv2, is available for this text - now with new instructor features and enhanced functionality: a Dashboard that consolidates all course materials; easy, intuitive assignment creation and management; ability to preview and select activities/questions for each assignment; new assignment settings and options; improved gradebook; Personalized Study tools to help students focus their time on the key concepts and skills; and MindTap Reader™, a new eBook withh apps and embedded video, audio, annotations, and activities. OWLv2 courses for Gen Chem, GOB, and Liberal Arts now include Quick Prep essential skills assignments that can be taken before the semester begins or during the first few weeks, to help students succeed in the course. For this course, OWLv2 also includes new interactive versions of the end-of-chapter questions from the text, 45 new visual exercises, and new iPad-compatible visualizations, tutorials, and simulations.
• EXTENSIVELY REORGANIZED CHAPTERS 2 AND 16 provide a better flow of subjects to enhance student understanding.
• THE UPDATED ART PROGRAM offers new and more relevant instructive images.
• DETACHABLE "CHAPTER IN REVIEW" CARDS, revised to match the text's narrative, give students a portable study tool packed with pertinent information they can use to prepare for class.
• DETACHABLE "INSTRUCTOR PREP" CARDS - now including a list of the major revisions in each chapter - make class prep quick and easy and include a quick map of chapter content, a list of corresponding PowerPoint and video resources, additional examples, and suggested assignments and discussion questions.
• RELEVANT, REAL LIFE APPLICATIONS have been updated to reflect up-to-date issues affecting the chemical world.

About the Author

John L. Hogg was Professor of Chemistry and Thamann Professor of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M University. He received his B.S. degree in chemistry at Southwestern State College in Oklahoma, his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas, and joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1975. He has about 40 publications in the general areas of physical organic and bioorganic chemistry. He has received numerous teaching awards, including the Texas A&M University Association of Former Students Faculty Distinguished Achievement Awards in Teaching, College of Science teaching award (2002) and the Mervin and Annette Peters Advising Award as the outstanding undergraduate faculty advisor at Texas A&M in 2004. Dr. Hogg was one of the first four faculty members at Texas A&M to receive the title of University Professor of Undergraduate Teaching Excellence (1996), and he was honored with a named professorship in 2002. John passed away suddenly in 2008, and we dedicate this revision to his memory.