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Title: Student's Solutions Manual for Thermodynamics, Statistical Thermodynamics, & Kinetics
ISBN: 0805338519
Author:
Tom Engel
Phil Reid
Publicate Date: 2005-03-14
Publish: 2005-03-14
List Price: $18.20
Average Customer Rating: 2.0
Format: Paperback
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1: The WORST solutions manual i have ever seen
This solution manual is a true waste of money/
First off there aren't even that many solutions, probably a couple per chapter.
Second, the solutions aren't really solutions, nothing is explained just a series of obscure steps and viola the solution.
Third, well, lets just say that this wouldn't be so bad if just the solution manual was crap, but the book is pure crap as well, can't say i have had a worst experience than this.
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2: Difficult Chemistry Made Even Harder
Let me begin by saying - I love chemistry. I love math. I'm a total nerd. But this book turned me off to both. Taking a year of physical chemistry is hard - but this book makes it even harder. This is the first year my professors have used this book, and I think it will be their last.
The key points aren't covered in detail. The math is overly complicated, and the problems don't hit the right points. I don't have a lot of P.Chem textbook knowledge, but there has to be something better out there.
I wouldn't recommend the text at all - but if you buy it, you ABSOLUTELY need the solutions manual.
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3: This book makes Pchem utterly boring
I used this book for my pchem courses and found it to be completely worthless. While it does focus on computational crap that's not very important the first time around. The quantum chapters are pretty poorly done, and well the thermo stuff is just boring. All in all, I found this text to be useless. The derivations include many errors, and often are presented before the text introduces what they're trying to derive thereby further confusing you. You're better off not buying this book, unless you need for class, and buying one of the more used books like Levine's or Macquarrie's.
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4: An excellent book
A modern, clear, and extensive physical chemistry text. It does break tradition with the heavyweights in the field (Atkins, McQuarrie), but does so for good reason: there aren't enough computational background or computer computation applications in the others. Those books do a great job with the theory and mathematics, but this book show's you how to use that mathematics to really understand chemistry. It focuses heavily computational chemistry with actual software and the Spartan Quantum chemistry software that book's authors use is very inexpensive if you buy the student version. As a bonus, this book is the most colorful and well laid-out and edited one available today.
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5: worst book ever
I've used half of the book now. The layout is not very organized. I found the graphical representations useful.
ok, 2nd semester in work. I'd prefer to downgrade this rating to negative 5 if I could. This book has turned into a major disaster. It is so riddled with errors...the derivations are never right. Everytime something doesn't work out right it's because the book is wrong. flat out.
This book gets my strongest disapproval possible. Buying this book is throwing away your money. Thanks engel. Thanks for all those hours lost trying to figure out what mistake I had make working out the derivations in this book only to find the book was wrong all along.
I'm still a little bitter about the false advertising when I got it...re: spartan software student copy that wasn't included.
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