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Title: General Chemistry : Text with Student Technology Package by Darrell Ebbing, Steven D. Gammon ISBN: 0-618-14101-4 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $134.76 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.1 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is extremely helpful.
Comment: I am a XIIth standard student, and learning concepts of the science. I was very scared of general chemistry before I read this book. Ten days ago, I bought this book and even in real shortage of time, I read this book thoroughly, and I liked it so much that I never liked any book before it. It has great information in very simple words that a rookie like me can also understand easily. It has been written very systematically and logically with probably great efforts. Now I am not a bit scared from general aspects of chemistry and can solve even some tough problems. This book is no doubt a very nice book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good, general, nice diagrams
Comment: We use this text for our freshman chemistry course at Trent University, and have for a number of years (previous editions). It is equal or superior to virtually all other texts that I am aware of for a general course that includes both chemistry majors and others (biology, physics, etc.). Concepts are explained well, diagrams are easy to understand, and there is a profusion of examples in the text. It also includes a biochemistry chapter, which many other texts do not have. With the addition of bichem to many 1st year curricula, this is important.
If teaching a more rigorous/physical course directed solely to chem majors, this book may not be the best choice (perhaps Oxtoby and Nachtrieb would be a better choice).
This book is generally superior in quantity and quality of questions at the back of the chapter. All questions are paired with the odd numbered question having the answer in the back of the book. Students really like this feature.
As an instructor, there are a number of extras that are very helpful, including an alternate example manual (with examples to use in class that are complimentary to the text), a full set of figures on a CD-ROM which are easily transferred to Powerpoint for use in lectures, and a complete solutions manual.
There are a few small problems. The order in the text is not the order I teach in, but the chapters are pretty good at delineating the material so you can teach out of order. For example, Chapter 6 is thermochemistry, and Chapter 18 is the rest of thermodynamics - why 12 chapters between them? (To be fair, this system is used in a number of freshman texts.) Web resources for the student are lacking in that they cost extra (at least, in Canada), something many other publishers offer for free.
All in all, this is a very good text for a general course in freshman chemistry. It is well indexed, and should also be of use to anyone that needs a chemistry reference book.
Rating: 1
Summary: this book is crap
Comment: this book is is crap. I am a Chemistry major and I understand the equations and relations very well, but when I first used this book in my general chemistry classes, it was a waste of my time. The book consists mainly of short examples and the book does not help to understand the relation of the equations. Also, the book as many errors. Because there are errors, you assume that every answer is possibly wrong and that you are doing the work wrong. The errors also do not help when you do have the correct answer. The authors will change the answers and will not inform you as to how they go the answer. If you are taking a Chemistry class and this book is the requirement, I suggest you talk to your professor or use another book for reference, this book is a tragedy.
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Title: General Chemistry: Student Solutions Manual by Darrell D. Ebbing ISBN: 0395925533 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Experiments in General Chemistry by R. A. D. Wentworth ISBN: 0395925525 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $67.16 |
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Title: Chemical Principles in the Laboratory by Emil J. Slowinski, Wayne C. Wolsey, William L. Masterton ISBN: 0030311675 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 02 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $72.95 |
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Title: Biology (6th Edition) by Neil A. Campbell, Jane B. Reece ISBN: 0805366245 Publisher: Pearson Higher Education Pub. Date: 11 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $126.00 |
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Title: Calculus With Analytic Geometry, Seventh Edition by Bruce H. Edwards, Ron Larson, Robert Hostetler ISBN: 0618239723 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 List Price(USD): $151.16 |
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