Atkins' Physical Chemistry | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Atkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 146627
Media: Paperback
Edition: 8th
Pages: 1064
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.9
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.6 x 1.7
ISBN: 0198700725
EAN: 9780198700722
Publication Date: January 2006
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Product Description
Atkins' Physical Chemistry remains the benchmark of achievement for a chemistry degree throughout the world. The judicious choice of topics, the clear writing style of both authors, and the careful exposition of maths, reaffirm the book's position as market leader. In the eighth edition the authors provide a more compact presentation through the careful restructuring and redistribution of material. The coverage of introductory topics has been streamlined, and later topics rationalized, bringing into sharper focus the scope of the text to mirror the needs of today's students and lecturers. Mathematics remains an intrinsic yet challenging part of physical chemistry; the new edition offers greater explanation and support, to ensure that students can master the important mathematical principles, without sacrificing the rigour and depth of its mathematical content. The pedagogical framework, which is a hallmark of Atkins' writing, has been strengthened further: new 'Notes on good practice' provide guidance on the use of terminology and help students to avoid common pitfalls; short 'Commentaries' remind students of the applications of mathematical and physical concepts, and provide useful cross-references to related resources in the book and on the accompanying companion web site. The eighth edition introduces new 'Impact on' sections which integrate the impact of physical chemistry on modern applications such as biology, biochemistry, medicine, nanoscience and astrophysics. All these exciting new features and innovations are presented within a new full colour text design, to stimulate and engage students still further. Online Resource Centre: The companion web site contains Living Graphs, illustrations from the book, and web links. An Instructor's Solutions Manual (free to adopters) and a Student's Solutions Manual are also available. The book is also complemented by a new edition of the 'Explorations in Physical Chemistry' CD, which contains interactive Excel worksheets and exercises related to the Living Graphs, allowing students to visualise, actively explore and test their understanding of the subject.
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 A noble work of the intellect August 13, 2008
Brett Williams (Dallas, TX)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Murray Rothland wrote, "Every once in a while the human race pauses in the job of botching its affairs and redeems itself by a noble work of the intellect". Atkins book is just such a noble work. Rare is it to find a technical text that reads more like a novel, but Atkins does. Not only is the topic fascinating on its own (mostly the physics of molecules), but Atkins raises it to the level of riveting. In those far off years of the university experience for this reader, it was said only a genius could grasp physical chemistry - not true, at least not with Atkins leading the way. Atkins uses varied tools with so many well-chosen angles on description that the reader sees things in nature never realized before. Most often through analogies to what we know well, e.g. the familiar constructive & destructive interference (wave mechanics) applied to wave functions (Schroedinger's sometimes confounding quantum probability description) yielding electron orbitals with shapes that suddenly make sense. That "ah-ha" experience is so frequently felt while reading this book it's simply hard to put it down, for anything. There are apparently several versions of this 2006 8th edition. The two in paperback come in color or black-&-white. There's also 4 years of access to the book's website, including the text, all its figures, spread sheets and MathCad models. A salute to Oxford University Press and Atkins for this remarkable resource.
 Good coverage of material; lousy binding, pics, and ancillaries January 29, 2007
Nate (CA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
As with other editions of Atkins' P-Chem (I own 4th, 5th, & 7th), the topics are covered rigorously and at a level that I think is appropriate for a solid junior undergrad course in P-chem.
For a text that keeps up quite admirably with advancements in science, the diagrams and ancillaries (e.g., living graphs) continue to be weak and well behind the pedagogical innovations that make p-chem more accessible to students.
The quality of the binding is unacceptably poor. Like others on this page, I too have a copy of the text with the cover that has come apart. Freeman ought to republish the text with improved binding. This text should serve as a reference for students to use for many years to come. It absolutely cannot serve that function with the quality of the binding in this version.
Poor Binding January 6, 2007
David Jensen (Ogden, Ut)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I too agree with them, I am a pchem student, and the binding on my book is coming off, I need to tape it in order to save it from falling off. Yes, the derivation are hard to follow, my professor had to give hand outs on majority of them to show what steps were skipped.
Poor quality binding and Poor quality derivations. November 15, 2006
Neil J. Lawrence (Tooele, UT USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Of the 18 students in my physical chemistry course, at least 6 have lost their covers entirely. This is less than 3 months after the publication of the text. In addition the quality of the derivations, while somewhat better than the 7th edition, are oftentimes difficult to follow, Steps are skipped and it is often assumed that students are not only familiar with mathematical concepts beyond the scope of the course, but that they have the ability to apply these same advanced mathematical abilities to new concepts. In addition many of the problems require you to look up values from non related sources such as the CRC. The solutions manuals have numerous faults and oftentimes use entirely different methods of solving problems than are presented in the chapters. Yes physical chemistry is a very difficult subject, that is expected, however we can at least ask that the covers remain on our texts.
Great for a bonfire.... July 11, 2008
WequeMD (Florida)
and that's about it. It was one of the worst science textbooks I have encountered and if I never have to see it again, that's too soon. About 1 question out of every 5 was wrong, and there were huge errors throughout the text. Things were explained poorly and I actually did better when I didn't have the book confusing me. I don't know about this book, but other books by Peter Atkins only get worse with each new addition. I was very happy when I was able to get rid of it.
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