Exploring Creation With Chemistry Full Set with Solutions and Tests [Hardcover]

Jay L. Wile (Author), Marilyn Durnell (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 193201229X | ISBN-13: 978-1932012293 | Publication Date: March 31, 2003 | Edition: 2nd Bundle

Prerequisites: Algebra I

This is a two book set that includes both the student textbook and the Solutions and Test Manual.

In order to be able to understand this text, the student needs to have completed algebra I. This course is designed to be a first-year high school chemistry course and gives the student a rigorous foundation in chemistry, in order to prepare him or her for a college-level course. The course covers significant figures, units, classification, the mole concept, stoichiometry, thermochemistry, thermodynamics, kinetics, acids and bases, redox reactions, solutions, atomic structure, Lewis structures, molecular geometry, the gas laws, and equilibrium. Students who take and understand this course will be very well-prepared for a tough university chemistry course.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Apologia Educational Ministries Inc; 2nd Bundle edition (March 31, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 193201229X
• ISBN-13: 978-1932012293
• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 8.8 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #835,253 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Acclaimed in the Homeschool Community, February 27, 2006

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M. Chao - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Exploring Creation With Chemistry Full Set with Solutions and Tests (Hardcover)

The other reviewer is very misinformed. This site is for the second edition, which explains and practices sig figs, the factor-label method, and basically everything else very clearly. I feel like everything I'm learning in this book is a piece of cake, and have thus wondered whether this book is rigorous enough for homeschoolers, but looking around more, I find that this book does teach hard chemical concepts, but somehow makes them feel like second grade math.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent chemistry program, July 11, 2008

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J. Alexander - See all my reviews
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We have a son who is a rising senior in an engineering program at a well regarded "secular" state school. He sailed through his freshman chemistry there, since he had seen it all before in this book at home. His math wasn't so good, so he traded chemistry help for math help.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent chemistry text, August 4, 2008

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Linda Edwards (Honea Path, SC USA) - See all my reviews
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For the past 4 years, I have taught homeschool chemistry classes in my home using this text, as well as Biology and Physics with Wile's curriculum. Wile's texts are so truly readable, making the concepts very understandable. In reading his texts, even I as a teacher have had some "aha" moments, as he has connected some things for me that had not been clear before. If you want your student to truly understand the concepts in addition to being able to work problems, get this text. I do enjoy adding extras to my class, including more high-powered labs, to make an honors class, but this course (as is) is certainly sufficient for a college-bound student. I have taught out of several different texts over the years, and this one is by far my favorite. Most texts are so unreadable that I never assigned reading, using the text only as a source of problems, but with Wile's texts, my students read from cover to cover.