Book Description
Authored by Brent and Sheila Iverson, University of Texas, Austin, this comprehensive manual contains detailed solutions to all in-text and end-of-chapter problems. The best way for students to understand and learn the concepts of organic chemistry is to work multiple relevant and interesting problems on a daily basis. With this guide, the authors help students achieve a deeper intuitive understanding of the material through constant reinforcement and practice. The result will be much better preparation for in-class quizzes and tests, as well as the national standardized tests such as the DAT and MCAT. The solutions manual provides instant feedback by giving not only answers, but also detailed explanations.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent.......2007-09-11
The book has signs of wear and tear, but other than that the book was great. With a better price than any bookstore can offer who could pass it up?
You cannot say "No.".......2007-01-04
Without this book, you are pretty much on your own when you are reading the main text. All the problems are solved clearly. Just reading it as a textbook can give you extra tips on somethings that you might have skipped in the book. Sometimes, you might get confused. Well, it is just chemistry. Read carefully.
Book Description
Provides complete solutions for all odd-numbered "Questions" and "Exercises" in the text. Uses the same solutions methods as examples in the text.
Customer Reviews:
Great Buy.......2005-09-24
This was a last minute purchase for school and the book was shipped quickly and arrived on time.
Absolutely necessary for O Chem!.......2005-07-11
if you're taking o chem, then you need this book. the summaries are helpful for review of chapters or in the worst case scenario, in substitution of the chapters. but the most important part of this book are the solutions to the problems. the only way you'll learn organic chemistry, like it or not, is by practicing problems. this solutions manual is the only way to know if you're doing those problems correctly - the text book does NOT contain solutions for problems in the book, beside the worthlessly easy ones contained directly in the chapters. in addition to the solution, it contains an explanation for all problems that require one.
THIS BOOK IS WELL WORTH THE MONEY! you won't be disappointed. if anything, go in on it with a friend that is also taking the course. you WILL need this book.
study guide.......2000-05-15
i think it's quite helpful and gives you some " experience" and more confidence before dealing directly with the exams themselves.!
the questions make you more acquainted with what types of questions u might expect for the exams..and thus you hve more chances of doing better!
Customer Reviews:
MY LIFESAVER.......2006-09-04
I highly recommend getting this book, and if you have to choose between this book and the text, get this one. Science is step-by-step problem solving, not just reading paragraphs of words.
This book takes all the even-numbered problems in the text and goes through them step-by-step with explanations, like a teacher would on a board. Becuase there are many problems of the same kind, you can do the odd-numbered ones easily after reading through the even-numbered ones.
I got a 4.0 in the class, and I never bought the textbook. I only had this book. I used it extensively for studying for the exams, and for working on homework problems. I just borrowed the textbook from the library when I needed it (for example, getting the homework problems).
Opening this book is like turning to your own personal Chemistry professor.
Not really what I was looking for.......2006-09-01
Its interesting to note that this solution's manual only has the answers to the evens. A much earlier version of this solution's manual has all of the answers. Why was it changed? I have no idea. But the change was definatly not a good thing. Especially, if since my teacher keeps giving me the odd problems
It helps me a lot!.......2006-04-12
Although the author said in the book that this book is not a brief from the main text book and you should mainly read the main text book before readind this solution manual, I found that I could understand it even though I didn't read the main text book at all. It did help me reduce my valuable time. I could use that reduced time to read all other textbook for other many subjects.
Student Solution Manual to Accompany Chemistry.......2006-03-22
I found this very helpful. The solutions were worked out and easily understood. I would have liked solutions to all questions.
Book Description
This Student Solutions Manual for CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL REACTIVITY is your ideal homework companion in your general chemistry course. It contains detailed solutions to selected end-of-chapter Study Questions found in the text. To ensure your understanding, solutions match the problem-solving strategies used in the text.
Customer Reviews:
Not incredibly helpful........2007-10-01
Plenty of the problems in this solutions manual have significant figure errors. A few times they forget to actually write in the answer after showing the work they did. I find that some of the problems (especially with equations that need to be algebraically manipulated) are solved in strange ways that are hard to follow. For example, instead of taking the original equation and solving for the desired variable, it substitutes all of the known information and then does the algebra. I find that if I actually try to solve a problem this way, I will almost always make an error. Sometimes the manual just skips steps, or leaves out explanations when it shouldn't.
On the bright side, when I am doing the study problems at the end of a chapter, instead of having to save my place in the book and check my answers in the back, I can leave the page open and check my answers in the solutions manual. Hardly worth the fifty bucks.
I've had better .......2007-09-29
Those of you who have taken Chemistry know that it's not the easiest class in the world. That is why I went online and bought this solution manual. However, I wouldn't waste my freakin money on it if I were you. It doesnt show crap in it. In fact, the back of my book shows more of a solution than this thing does. I like solution manuals that explain everything, this one assumes you already know what you are doing, which contradicts the purpose of the damn thing.
Excellent condition and good text.......2007-01-06
I am really happy with this book. It helped me with hard problems.
Book Description
Ira N. Levine's fifth edition of Physical Chemistry provides students with an in-depth fundamental treatment of physical chemistry. At the same time, the treatment is made easy to follow by giving full step-by-step derivations, clear explanations and by avoiding advanced mathematics unfamiliar to students. Necessary math and physics have thorough review sections. Worked examples are followed by a practice exercise.
Customer Reviews:
Very good introduction to physical chemistry.......2007-07-23
A previous reviewer stated that physical chemistry is complicated. As a retired NASA researcher with 44 years experience specializing in physical chemistry I readily acknowledge that physical chemistry can be a very challenging subject. But, personally, I have also found it to be immensely fascinating and rewarding. There are several good textbooks on physical chemistry but, in my opinion, none is better than this one. Levine has done a very good job of presenting the material contained in an understandable fashion without compromising scientific rigor.
An earlier reviewer stated that this book is full of inaccuracies, but I strongly disagree with this statement. One example of an alleged inaccuracy which this reviewer cited is Levine`s statement that, at the velocity of light, photons have mass. This is a true statement; photons do indeed have both mass and momentum and thus can cause pressure on objects they strike. I beg you not to be biased against this outstanding book by this flawed review.
The topic of physical chemistry -- in which chemistry, physics, and mathematics overlap and interact -- clearly does not appeal to everyone. Even many chemists shun the rigors of physical chemistry as much as possible. But for those studying this important subject, I highly recommend this book. And some of you may even come to love this fascinating subject as I do.
for those who don't like Levine.......2007-04-25
If you want the most student friendly book get Physical Chemistry , 4/e by Laidler, Meiser, Sanctuary, ISBN 061815292X.
Description on their website says "With its clear explanations and practical pedagogy, Physical Chemistry is less intimidating to students than other texts, without sacrificing the mathematical rigor and comprehensiveness necessary for a junior-level physical chemistry course. The text's long-standing reputation for accessible writing provides clear instruction and superior problem-solving support for students." I second that.
see my review here Physical Chemistry I mention the alternatives as well.
Terrible semester.......2007-03-31
Physical Chemistry is complicated, there is no way of getting around that. This book will go through the derivations, but never include units. That is a huge problem.
Terrible. Absolutely terrible........2006-09-24
I don't know why so many other people think this book is good. I feel just the opposite.
First, it is filled with factual inaccuracies. Let me quote just one howler, from page 604. "At speed c, the photon has a nonzero mass m." Yes, you heard right, Dr. Levine thinks photons have mass. He then goes on to give an incorrect statement and explanation of the De Broglie wavelength. (Among other things, he uses "mv" instead of momentum, which is of course true only in the case of Newtonian mechanics with massive particles. Sigh.) These gaffes are rarely typos, they are generally the sort of thing which someone with a fundamental understanding of the underlying physics cringes at.
Second, Levine is incapable of going a paragraph without interrupting himself. Given the choice of stating something simply, or filling a paragraph with fifteen references (placed in the text, not in footnotes) and a few asides, he always goes for the latter. References are a fine thing, but placing them inside the text and doing it constantly interrupts the reader's thinking.
Taking an example a few pages earlier in the text, it is not sufficient for Levine to start to explain the photoelectric effect, he has to add in a few lines about practical applications of photocells. All fine and well, but it distracts from the flow of the logic, and frankly the applications of photocells aren't germane to what is being taught here, which is that light is quantized. Levine can never resist the temptation to add a little aside -- there are even spots in the book where he interrupts his own interruptions.
Third, Levine is also incapable of writing without making what he discusses somehow seem meaningless and uninteresting. Take thermodynamics. In the hands of a bad author, thermodynamics can seem like a swirling vortex of formula manipulations, but if you read, say, Enrico Fermi's pamphlet from the 1930s, you instead feel as though you're seeing the power of a few ideas applied rigorously to an interesting domain -- you feel the relevance of the topic to the world and you feel the sparkle of the author's intellect. Levine takes this same topic and makes it feel like an endless parade of noise.
Indeed, Levine can take all sorts topics that are full of inherent interest and relevance and make them seem utterly abstract, boring and lifeless. In order to cover up for this, he throws in lots of asides (see above) and the occassional several paragraph digression about the life of some famous scientist. Sadly, you don't make a topic more "interesting for the kids" by throwing in random asides and distractions -- you do it by knowing how to teach. A good teacher can make anything interesting -- a bad one can't make up for it by doing a few juggling tricks.
Between Levine's self-interruptions, asides and dry presentation, somehow the length of the text always seems an order of magnitude longer than necessary to explain any given subject. I often mentally scream "get to the point already!" as I read.
There is also the question of order of presentation. Honestly, I think that starting a discussion of thermodynamics without first at least glossing to the kinetic theory of gases is a mistake. Abstraction has to be tempered with good mental models of what is going on and why it is going on or the student becomes lost. Even a couple of pages showing that the Ideal Gas Law is an emergent result of a simple classical mechanical model would ground the student better to the material. This sort of thing happens over and over in Levine, with discussion being often both too rigorous and unfounded in basic principles at the same time -- quite a trick to pull off.
Levine's text is, of course, in its fifth edition. Presumably, had the earlier revision been left alone, sales might have flagged as used copies from bored students uninterested in holding on to them filled the market. The publishers have therefore done the usual thing and produced trivial updates every few years to assure that used copies become worthless. Does this new fifth edition come with snazzy new diagrams and all the other stigmata of the modern textbook industry? No. The diagrams in the text -- a text you pay a kings ransom for -- were clearly done in MacDraw and MacPaint in the mid-1980s. I am not that upset about this -- I just find it another irritation. Truthfully, I don't need snazzy illustrations -- my favorite physics and chemistry texts are often decades old -- but if you're going to pretend that you're doing a new edition for some reason other than to keep your sales numbers up, at least have the decency to spend a small amount of money on production to keep up appearances. Milking the students is an embarrassment, especially at the inflated price this book commands.
Oh, and did I mention that the book is insanely heavy? That's not a small thing if you have to haul it around a campus constantly.
As I said, I don't know why other reviewers like this book so much. I'm a confirmed science geek who loves reading science texts for their own sake and I'm having a great deal of difficulty reminding myself that this text (which is being used for a class I'm taking) is not reason enough to find the entire subject of physical chemistry an unbearably boring waste of time -- the topic is in fact interesting, it is this book which is the problem.
To survive the course I'm taking with my mind intact, I've used a succession of small texts by people like Fermi and Pauli. The contrast between people who understand a topic well enough to explain it clearly and simply and the people like Levine that churn out heavy uninteresting textbooks is striking. If you're a professor considering the use of this book, please, please, please don't do it. Find something else. there has to be a decent book on this topic out there somewhere.
As a final comment, let me say this is not the worst text I've ever used. That would be H.J. Pain's "The Physics of Vibrations and Waves". To damn Dr. Levine with faint praise, this book doesn't even come close to being as bad as that other text.
Great Book.......2006-04-22
I took both semesters of P.Chem, failing the first because I took way too many upper level Chem Classes & working as well as a weak background in Calc 3. After studying Calc III by myself over the summer and retaking the class, I am able to absorb so much more and I'm ripping a new one in this class. It is truly an amazing book. Having a solid math background helps one to 'connect the dots' so-to-speak whenever Dr. Levine makes these 'shortcuts'. Tons of worked examples, difficult yet definitely possible homework problems and an acutual intelligent sense of humor are woven into the this book making an extremely complex and difficult subject..... engaging, lol. I spend close to 40hrs. per test and I'm thankful I'm putting myeself through this. Great book, just make sure you have a solid understanding of partial diff eqns. and complex algebra before you take it. Not meant for the weak of mind.
Book Description
This Student Solutions Manual for ORGANIC CHEMISTRY is your ideal homework companion in your organic chemistry course. It contains detailed solutions to all text problems.
Customer Reviews:
Great buy.......2006-11-03
This is one of the best class-related products I have bought through Amazon. The seller provided the book in a very timely manner and it arrived in great condition.
Book Description
By Brandon J. Cruickshank (Northern Arizona University) and Raymond Chang. This supplement contains detailed solutions and explanations for all even-numbered problems in the main text. The manual also includes a detailed discussion of different types of problems and approaches to solving chemical problems and tutorial solutions for many of the end-of-chapter problems in the text, along with strategies for solving them.
Customer Reviews:
it's also a study guide.......2006-09-14
The reviewer is right, but the book does come with a study guide for the entire book, not just the solutions.
Suggestion.......2005-04-16
This solutions manual is my bestest friend! Don't know what I'll do without it. Anyways, to the meat of it all, the solutions manual is actually on the website the book has (pdf format), so you don't really have to buy it, but if you really want a hardcopy then go ahead. I'd rather save $40 bucks. Hope this saves you guys some $$ (=
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