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A number of excellent electronic and printed resources are available with this text to aid the instructor in presenting and managing the course and to help the student in exploring and mastering the many facets of general chemistry.

For the Instructor: Electronic Media

The Chang Visual Resource Library (VRL) CD-ROM is an outstanding multimedia product that combines several exceptional resources:

o Essential Animations. New with this edition is a set of top-quality animations, available at the Online Learning Center (www.mhhe.com/essentialchemistry), that vividly demonstrate the core concepts and processes of chemistry. Icons correlate these animations to points in the text, and instructors can use them to augment lecture presentations.

o Text Images. More than 300 images from the text can be used for standalone classroom presentation or can be included in a PowerPoint presentation.

Online Learning Center for the Instructor. Also new with this edition is the Online Learning Center (www.mhhe.com/essentialchemistry), a comprehensive and exclusive web site for both instructors and students. Resources on the site include ChemQuest exercises, Visual Chemistry, additional quizzes, and links to a wealth of data and information sites. For the instructor, the site offers password-protected access to the answers to ChemQuest and Visual Chemistry, as well as additional quiz questions to assign.

For the Instructor: Electronic Media

The Chang Visual Resource Library (VRL) CD-ROM is an outstanding multimedia product that combines several exceptional resources:

o Text Images. More than 300 images from the text can be used for standalone classroom presentation or can be included in a PowerPoint presentation.

For the Instructor: Print Supplements

Instructor's Resource Manual with Solutions, by Vicki Ellis (Gulf Coast Community College) and Raymond Chang, is a complete manual for teaching a general chemistry course based on Essential Chemistry. This unique guide includes demonstrations that can be done in any classroom or assigned for homework, accompanied by discussion questions and tips to ensure success; information on relevant applications; chapter overviews and outlines; and annotated cross-references to other elements of the text package. In addition, this manual provides complete solutions to all end-of-chapter problems in the text.

Test Bank, by Gary Wolf (Spokane Falls Community College), contains more than 2,000 multiple-choice, short-answer, and true-false exam questions. The questions, which are graded in difficulty, are comparable to problems in the text and include multistep problems that require conceptual analysis.

Computerized Test Bank contains all the questions in the print test bank and over 200 algorithm-based questions that instructors can edit to create their own test templates. This supplement is available in Windows and Mac formats.

Overhead Transparencies are a set of 200 full-color acetates of important illustrations from the text.

For the Student:
Print and Media Supplements

o Problem-Solving Workbook with Solutions, by Brandon Cruickshank (Northern Arizona University) and Raymond Chang, is a success guide written for use with Essential Chemistry. It aims to help students hone their analytical and problem-solving skills by presenting detailed approaches to solving chemical problems. Solutions for all of the text's even-numbered problems are included.

o Online Learning Center (www.mhhe.com/essentialchemistry) is a comprehensive, exclusive web site that provides a wealth of electronic resources for instructors and students alike. The site features interactive quizzes for each topic area of the text, which students can use to test themselves. Other offerings on the site include ChemQuest, containing Internet search exercises; Visual Chemistry, with Internet exercises that require students to find and manipulate molecules that are discussed in the text; links to chemical databases; and listings of professional opportunities in chemistry.

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