Physical Chemistry: Understanding our Chemical World [Paperback]

Paul M. S. Monk (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 31, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0471491810 | ISBN-13: 978-0471491811 | Edition: 1

Understanding Physical Chemistry is a gentle introduction to the principles and applications of physical chemistry. The book aims to introduce the concepts and theories in a structured manner through a wide range of carefully chosen examples and case studies drawn from everyday life. These real-life examples and applications are presented first, with any necessary chemical and mathematical theory discussed afterwards. This makes the book extremely accessible and directly relevant to the reader.

Aimed at undergraduate students taking a first course in physical chemistry, this book offers an accessible applications/examples led approach to enhance understanding and encourage and inspire the reader to learn more about the subject.

• A comprehensive introduction to physical chemistry starting from first principles.
• Carefully structured into short, self-contained chapters.
• Introduces examples and applications first, followed by the necessary chemical theory.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"…a physical chemistry textbook that is interesting, easy to read, and makes the subject comprehensible is overdue…[this book] achieves this goal and does so quire well." (Journal of Chemical Education, May 2006)

"…Monk has a deep understanding of many of the thorny issues in physical chemistry and is able to avoid the unnecessary mystery that plagues other texts." (Clinical Chemistry, June 2005)

“…an original, refreshing and valuable approach to a complicated subject.” (Chemistry and Industry, No.17, 6^th September 2004)

From the Back Cover

Physical Chemistry: Understanding our Chemical World is a gentle introduction to the principles and applications of physical chemistry. The book aims to introduce the concepts and theories in a structured manner through a wide range of carefully chosen examples and case studies drawn from everyday life. These real-life examples and applications are presented first, with any necessary chemical and mathematical theory discussed afterwards. This helps make the book extremely accessible and directly relevant to the reader.

Aimed at undergraduate students taking a first course in physical chemistry, this book offers an accessible applications/examples led approach to enhance understanding and encourage and inspire the reader to learn more about the subject.

• a comprehensive introduction to physical chemistry starting from first principles.
• carefully structured into short, self-contained chapters.
• introduces examples and applications first, followed by the necessary chemical theory.

Product Details

• Paperback: 618 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (May 31, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471491810
• ISBN-13: 978-0471491811
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 1.4 x 9.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,833,150 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for a low level intro course, April 20, 2006

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Jesse voelker (Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This book does a great job at discribing the conceptual aspects of basic p.chem topics like thermodynaics, kinectics and photochemistry. Unfortuently it only breafly explaines the mathmatical aspects and in little detail, making the book unsutible for anythig except a low level class. The book also suffers from a severe lack of practice problems. If you only need to understad the basic concepts of p.chem this book cannot be beat, but if you need to know the nitty gritty mathmatical deatials you will be hurting at test time.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It is what it is, June 9, 2006

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Diego Martinez (Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews
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This book is everything it says it is. I am in school to be a chem teacher and P chem has been mind boggling. The many examples gets a person into thinking like a p chemists and this is invaluable when trying to set up the math problems in an acutal class. If you understand your Calc the math isn't the issue in passing p chem its setting up the math. This book is a must read for any under grad chemist. I am going to write the author this book is a master piece. Simple and to the point with lots of real world examples.