Introduction to Chemical Principles: A Laboratory Approach (Brooks/Cole Laboratory Series for General Chemistry)

The seventh edition of this superb lab manual offers 36 class-tested experiments, suitable for introductory, preparatory, and health science chemistry courses and texts, including INTRODUCTORY CHEMISTRY: AN ACTIVE LEARNING APPROACH, Fourth Edition by Cracolice and Peters. Experiments in this lab manual teach users to collect and analyze experimental data and provide them with a strong foundation for further course work in general chemistry. This edition offers users a wide variety of experiments to customize their laboratory program, including many microscale experiments. All experiments can be completed in a three-hour laboratory period. As in the Sixth Edition, there are Work Pages for each experiment as well as Report Sheets for users to take notes and record experimental data and results, which facilitate instructor grading of experiments.

Susan Weiner was born in Hungary and moved to the United States in 1957, after receiving her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University in Hungary. She earned a Master's of Science in Chemistry from New York University, and worked in research at the New York University Medical School, the University of California, Berkeley, and for the Dow Chemical Company. She is the author of more than twenty publications for various professional journals on Sea Water Conversion and currently teaches at West Valley College, where she served for many years as the Chemistry Department chair. Also an instrument rated pilot, Weiner enjoys flying and spending time with her twin granddaughters.

Dr. Blaine Harrison is a professor of Introductory and Organic Chemistry at West Valley College in Saratoga, CA. He received his B.S. in Biochemistry from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1989 and his Ph.D in Organic Chemistry from UC Santa Cruz in 1998.