The American Chemical Society has launched an activities-based, student-centered approach to the general chemistry course, a textbook covering all the traditional general chemistry topics but arranged in a molecular context appropriate for biology, environmental and engineering students. Written by a team of industry chemists and educators and thoroughly class-tested, Chemistry combines cooperative learning strategies and active learning techniques with a powerful media/supplements package to create an effective introductory text.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Absolutely awful,
This review is from: Chemistry: A General Chemistry Project of the American Chemical Society (Hardcover)
Even if you're a student who wants to "discover" knowledge, there's no way you'd bother using this book. It delves into the surface levels of topics, and horribly at that. Its explanations are terrible, and are based on data that you should have collected from experiments you're supposed to perform. And that's fine, if you've got test tubes, pipettes, turpentine and potassium pemanganate lying around in your dorm room. Or how about well plates, ferric thiocyanate, materials to make a salt bridge and a pair of electrodes? Oh, you don't? Darn. Well, good luck trying to make sense of the rest of the chapter.
Some of us would like to have an idea what we're doing before we go about potentially performing an experiment. Even if you're a student who's trying their hardest in chem, this book will be sure to hinder you with its innumerable errors. This book gave such a terrible, inconcise explanation of molecular orbitals that our professors had to photocopy explanations from other textbooks in order to give us (all 782 students) a better explanation. It's absolutely awful. Be sure to have a better textbook to study from, such as Brown and LeMay's "Chemistry: The Central Science." It's more in-depth AND far more interesting to read.
22 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
new kind of textbook,
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This review is from: Chemistry: A General Chemistry Project of the American Chemical Society (Hardcover)
This text covers basic chemical principles in the context of important molecules. It does not spoonfeed students chemical "knowledge." Rather, it encourages students to "discover" knowledge with their peers by participating learning activities. Students who have no desire of understanding chemistry might be better off with a more traditional text so that they can "get by" with a "D" in chemistry and forget about it. Teachers who only want to go through the motions should also avoid this text. However, those who are willing to take some risk to really learn and teach chemistry should give this text a try.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Even My Professor Would Not Use It,
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This review is from: Chemistry: A General Chemistry Project of the American Chemical Society (Hardcover)
If I could give this book zero stars, I would, but that's not an option.
Here's the breakdown: Pros: more introduction to organic chemistry and (if this is what you're into) more references to medical applications of what you're learning; this book also, in a certain type of student, could be inspiring in that it tries to make one figure things out for oneself, rather than simply giving the information outright Cons: Where do I begin? For one, this book *cannot* be used as a reference, because it doesn't actually have In the hands of a professor who teaches his/her course according to the book, then some of the teacher exercises actuallyIf you miss a lecture, it will hurt much more than with a real chemistry book. If you like to read ahead and learn for yourself before the professor covers the material (as I do), then you're again out of luck. The worst, though, beyond all these things... and OBJECTIVE measure of this book's flaws rather than issues dealing with my own personal preference... is that a good deal of it is WRONG. My professor refused to use *at all* the chapters for Electrochemistry and Chemical Kinetics (I believe this book refers to it as "Reaction Pathways"). He said, and I quote directly: "There are just too many incorrect assertions in these chapters. I'd like to think that a book put out by my society [ACS], even if it has to be arranged and written poorly, would at least be scientifically accurate." So, if you learn from this book, you'll be learning a lot of chemistry and in a novel way. But you'll also be learning incorrect things as well. And given that I'm assuming most people needing this book don't already know chemistry, it is impossible to sift out the bad from the good. The Chem 1 chapters are all fairly decent, though, because that material is all fairly basic... but again they are arranged in an illogical manner and it is impossible to truly "figure things out" in an axiomatic way. If I had not already taken IB Chem in highschool, I would have been utterly lost when trying to work in advance. And on top of that, it really lacks the detail that books like Chang's have... for instance it hardly even covers antiboding orbitals! In essence, in my point of view, even one of this book's best aspects (making you think before you get), do little more than to cloud, confuse, and waste time. And, on top of that, there are plenty of bad aspects, including being wrong on certain fundamental scientific facts. Get Chang. Seriously. That's what our professor has us use despite this schools' Chem Department's insistence on this one. If you really really really want a general chemistry text that emphasizes (at least more so than the others) medical applications of chemistry, and primes you (at least a little) for Orgo and Biochem, then my advice is to at most buy this book used and as cheaply as possible as an *additional* resource to a true chemistry text. *Not a book for independent studies *Not a book for those who enjoy details *Not a book for a quick, intense course (such as a summer course) *Not a book for people who take Chemistry seriously *A good book for one who wants a glimpse of Chemistry in a novel way, and who likes to spend hours thinking about things they cannot possibly surmise rather than getting the information
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