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| Atkins' Physical Chemistry | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Atkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $61.60
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (10 reviews)
Sales Rank: 10157
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 8th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1064
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.9
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.6 x 1.7
ISBN: 0198700725
EAN: 9780198700722
ASIN: 0198700725
Publication Date: January 2006
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 Incredible January 27, 2007
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
That is the worst physical chemistry textbook I've ever seen, though I haven't seen too many. To not go into deep detail this is about the material presentation. The choices that the authors made on what to tell and what not to tell as well as what to say about some concepts and issues are against the goal of good understanding and memorizing.
The new edition has colored pictures and "Impact On" sections which is very good, but I can not be silent about the thing that I cannot imagine could come to someone's head: the was an attempt to convert as many units as possible to SI all over the book. Like, it says "dm^3 (decimeter cubed)" everywhere where it would say "l (liter)" in 7th edition.
The atomic energies are expressed in attojoules. Good thing they haven't completely removed the electronvoltes, but it's not that easy to find them now.
The only reason to buy this book is when you have no other choice.
Poor Binding January 6, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I too agree with them, I am a pchem student, and the binding on my book is coming off, I need to tape it in order to save it from falling off. Yes, the derivation are hard to follow, my professor had to give hand outs on majority of them to show what steps were skipped.
Poor quality binding and Poor quality derivations. November 15, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Of the 18 students in my physical chemistry course, at least 6 have lost their covers entirely. This is less than 3 months after the publication of the text. In addition the quality of the derivations, while somewhat better than the 7th edition, are oftentimes difficult to follow, Steps are skipped and it is often assumed that students are not only familiar with mathematical concepts beyond the scope of the course, but that they have the ability to apply these same advanced mathematical abilities to new concepts. In addition many of the problems require you to look up values from non related sources such as the CRC. The solutions manuals have numerous faults and oftentimes use entirely different methods of solving problems than are presented in the chapters. Yes physical chemistry is a very difficult subject, that is expected, however we can at least ask that the covers remain on our texts.
Poor quality binding October 25, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'll reserve my comments on the book content for another time, but I feel compelled to write about the quality of the hardbound book construction. In my class of a dozen students, at least half have bindings that have come off and some have lost pages. In my dozen years as an instructor, I've never seen such shoddy binding. Search out the paperback version (it does exist) and save yourself some money. There are also supposed to be two individual volumes for this book but they have proved impossible to find.
I don't understand it! October 23, 2004
6 out of 23 found this review helpful
Which is the difference between the Prof. Atkins' (and De Paula) 'Physical Chemistry' (december 2001) and this book, written with the Prof. Locke (january 2002). Two editions in 1 month?!?!
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