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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 540
EAN num: 9780618491759
Format: Student Edition
ISBN number: 0618491759
Label: Brooks Cole
Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 743
Printing Date: January 26, 2005
Publishing house: Brooks Cole
Age index: Young Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 69580
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Essentials of General Chemistry is an ideal choice for instructors who want a shorter, less expensive core text that still supports a typical general chemistry course. Since the text covers the same topical scope as Ebbing/Gammon General Chemistry, it also presents an attractive option for the growing number of one-semester general chemistry courses. The book is priced 25% below most full-sized general chemistry texts.
The Essentials text retains all of the hallmark qualities of its parent text, including its ability to teach quantitative problem solving, its focus on conceptual understanding and visualization, and its state-of-the-art technology package. Its art program focuses on molecular-level depictions of macro-level phenomena.
- The text features a consistent and proven approach to problem-solving. Each problem-solving skill is introduced in a worked-out 'Example.' Most of these examples include a 'Problem Strategy.' Each Example is followed by a list of corresponding end-of-chapter 'Practice Problems, ' which reinforce skills and concepts.
- 'A Chemist Looks At' boxes connect chemistry to the real world by highlighting its applications to medicine/health, frontiers of science, the environment, and everyday life.
- Chapter 13, 'Solid Materials of Modern Technology,' includes information of particular value to engineering students.
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Rated by buyers -
I wish I had the time to write all of the errors & problems I see with this text so far, but at this writing I'm only in chapter two & have to study twice as hard because so many of the "explanations" don't explaing anything at all! I have to search online or use Cliffs Study Solver.
For instance, when the text is attempting to explain balancing chemical equations (pg. 59) the give an example of an equation of the reactants, the equation of the resulting product, but they do not even touch on the way you need to think to see the math, a little further down they try to explain it, but I see consistantly that information needed right after a new concept is presesnted is either insufficient or is presented later, after more confusing info is thrown at you before the authors completley convey a concept.
I have also found errors, such as pg. 29, problem 1.29, We are asked to list the pure substances present in ice, liquid water and it's vapor. Well I didn't need chemistry to know the answer was water, but we are left complelety befuddeled with the texts inclusion of bromine!!
This is a hard subject, but with a clear text you could grasp all concepts. This text is ridiculously inept at clear explanations.
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Most of the answers in the back and in the solution manual are incorrect. I've contacted the publisher about this problem and they just said that they would take note. They really should issue a free booklet of corrected answers. And the fact that students pay extra for the solution manual with incorrect answers is terrible. The explanations in the text are actually good - but it's useless to try working the problems if you can't check your answers! This text was a waste of money and most professors are switching back to Chang's Gen. Chem. text.
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