End-of-chapter problems in the e-Text - how to access and use

[Zellmer, Robert]

I've mentioned the end-of-chapter (EOC) problems in various places on my
personal webpages, e-mail and Carmen.  These are literally at the end of a
chapter.  People sometimes have trouble finding the end-of-chapter (EOC)
problems in the e-Text. I know most of you probably know about these but
I'm sure there are some of you who don't.

Here's some steps which might help (using ch 13 as my example).

1)  Get into the e-Text (that's the easy part, hopefully).

2)  Open the menu on the left and click on the Table of Contents.

3)  Click on chapter 13.  It expands to show the sections.  After you finish
     studying a section, you want to do the EOC exercises for the section.

4)  Scroll down.  Click on " Summary and Key Terms " near the bottom
     after the sections. That brings up the "Chapter Summary and Key
     Terms".  Read these when you finish each section.  If you don't
     understand what you're reading you may need to reread the section.

5)  Click on the ">" to the right and it takes you to "Key Equations".

6)  Click on the ">" to the right and it takes you to "Exam Prep".  Save
     these questions until you've finished the chapter or even the
     weekend before the midterm.  I have them in Mastering the weekend
     before a midterm.

7)  Click on the ">" to the right and finally you get to the end-of-chapter
     (EOC) exercises.  The "Visualizing Concepts" are mostly conceptual
     problems.  At the end of each question, it tells you which section you
     need to have read to answer the question.

     At this point just scroll down to get to the other questions in this section.

8)  Click on the ">" to the right to get to the next section of problems.  You'll then
     see problems listed for the various sections.  You'll see the section headings
     but no section numbers.  These generally correspond one-to-one with the
     sections.  Every now and then they'll combine a couple of sections into
     one section of homework (as is done for sections 13.2 and 13.3).  They
     usually do this when one section is really short and closely related to
     another.  When this happens there's generally 2-6 problems covering the
     short section.  If the short section comes first, you'll know when you've
     finished them because you'll get a question which you can't answer
     based on that section.  For instance, in the section covering 13.2 and 13.3
     the first 4 questions cover section 13.2 (saturated solutions and solubility).
     Then the rest of the questions deal with section 13.3.

     There's an error for Section 13.1 (The Solution Process) in that they
     didn't separate it from the "Visualizing Concepts" section.

     While you don't see this in the eText, the problems in these sections
     come in pairs.  13.13 and 13.14 cover the same concept from section
     13.1.  These companion problems may look the same with different
     numbers or might be worded slightly differently but are covering the
     same concept.  If you can't do the one I've assigned, and need help
     from someone, the internet or the solutions manual, do the other one
     to reinforce the help you just got.

     You want to work a section at a time.  Analyze the section and then
     do the EOC exercises for that section.

9)  You'll see a section at the end labeled "Additional Exercises".
     These aren't necessarily harder, but they don't tell you which section
     they're from, although they are generally in the order of the sections.
     Some of the ones toward the end may get more challenging.  They
     are comprehensive questions covering several concepts from the
     chapter and maybe previous chapters (including those from 1210).
     If you can do these it means you really understand the material.

That's pretty much it about how to access the EOC exercises for
each chapter and use them for the best effect.

Dr. Zellmer
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