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Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change by Martin Silberberg has become a favorite among faculty and students. Silberberg’s 4th edition contains features that make it the most comprehensive and relevant text for any student enrolled in General Chemistry. The text contains unprecedented macroscopic to microscopic molecular illustrations, consistent step-by-step worked exercises in every chapter, an extensive range of end-of-chapter problems which provide engaging applications covering a wide variety of freshman interests, including engineering, medicine, materials, and environmental studies. All of these qualities make Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change the centerpiece for any General Chemistry course.
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Excellent College-Level Introductory Chemistry Book.......2007-07-16
Although this book essentially starts from scratch, I'd recommend it to people who have already had high school chemistry. If you haven't had that, you should still do okay, but you may have to spend some extra time and effort since some of the most basic concepts are only skimmed over. They spend much more time on the material that you probably didn't cover in depth in high school chemistry.
First off, I would say that the book's content is excellent. It is an introductory (sort of) textbook, but it covers most of its topics in plenty of depth (at least as much as you would expect from an introductory general chemistry textbook). Also, the book does a great job at explaining the material in a clear fashion and it provides tons of illustrations. It is a very visual text and the author is obviously aware of the fact that visualizing chemical structures is extremely useful in understanding many of the concepts. This is especially useful in the section on covalent bonding.
The book also provides tons of useful exercises at the end of each chapter. The exercises range from very easy to fairly challenging, but they never seem too frustrating. Generally, I'd say that the exercises leaned more towards "easy" and are mostly just straight-forward applications of the material. Note: If you're having trouble, check out the ChemSkill Builder site. The exercises help a lot and it gives you useful feedback.
Whether it's for a class or for self-study, I would pick this book over any other.
great book, great explanations.......2007-06-17
along with chemistry the central science by brown, this is a great book. i think using both books in tandem is well worth it.
chemistry book.......2006-11-06
It is a very good text book and it was cheaper than the bookstores at the university.
book condition good.......2006-08-07
This book is in very good shape. It is a paper back version but the contents are exactly the same as a hardback version. The pages and chapters are the same. The cover of the book has slightly curled edges due to it being used. Other than that, the book is in good condition.
My Story with Chemistry and Silberberg.......2005-06-13
I am a chemistry major, that does not translate to "I like chemistry" but more along the lines that it was the only feasible premedical degree major.
I never did chemistry in High School and suffered tremendously with the thought of majoring in a science that I was unfamiliar with. What if I hated it? What if I wasnt any good at it? these were questions that haunted me prior to starting my degree. When I did commence, I found textbooks to be very costly and wanted the best for my money.
I realized that the price of a textbook does not make it good, nor the length of it. In saying so I started my chemistry studies with two books, one known as Basic Concepts of Chemistry by Malone, published by Wiley and the second was this. Chemistry the Molecular Nature of Matter and Change by Silberberg, published by Mcgraw Hill.
The first book helped establish an understanding of the fundamentals of chemistry, it was an excellant transition from the layman's english into the scientific paradigm. However when one is doing undergraduate chemistry especially in a premedical degree, it ends up not only being a study but a competition.
I found both these books to take me, an Individual who knew absolutely nothing about chemistry without any prior education in the science to someone who is now relaxed even with Organic Chemistry.
My liking and my understanding of chemistry came directly from these two books. I still treasure them to this day and would suggest anyone in my position to get these books.
I have seen and in detail read over 13 general chemistry books from Cheng to Atkins and even Zumdahl. I would deem these two (Malone and Silberberg) to be the best of all of them. However I do suggest that you peruse through various textbooks in a library prior to buying as an author's writing style matters a lot.
Most people who have an issue with Silberberg see him as being too pleonastic however I would think that he gives substantially beneficial explanations to all those concepts which can potentially render an individual confused and perplexed. Another complaint people lodge with Malone is that his style is too generalized and basic....however one is supposed to be a primer and the second to give and individual a robust understanding of a variety of ideas in Chemistry which are used over and over. Therefore both are appropriately written for the purpose they serve.
Book Description
With each edition, Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change by Martin Silberberg is becoming a favorite among faculty and students. Silberberg’s 3rd edition contains features that make it the most comprehensive and relevant text for any student enrolled in General Chemistry. The text contains unprecedented macroscopic to microscopic molecular illustrations, consistent step-by-step worked exercises in every chapter, an extensive range of end-of-chapter problems which provide engaging applications covering a wide variety of freshman interests, including engineering, medicine, materials, and environmental studies. All of these qualities make Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change the centerpiece for any General Chemistry course.
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This manual contains complete worked-out solutions to all follow-up problems and about half of all the chapter problems. Each chapter of solutions opens with a summary of the text-chapter content and a list of key equations needed to solve the problems.
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kid review format because of privacy issues.......2007-01-21
This book is for the third edition, not the forth in case anyone couldn't tell, but a lot of the problems are the same (a little different order) It wasn't as helpful as I had hope'd since it only has the solutions for the odds, and the odds are already in the back of the book. However, it was nice to see the work on a few problems for which the back of the book had just listed the final answer for. For me it was worth buying, esp with the extremely low used book price.
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review for Chemistry:The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change by Silberberg.......2007-08-31
I used this textbook in my freshman year of college. It is a good buy because in my case it was used for all three introductory chemistry courses. This paperback is a good alternative to the hardcover since it is significantly cheaper and slightly lighter.
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kid review format because of privacy issues.......2007-01-21
This book is for the third edition, not the forth in case anyone couldn't tell. Although my class is using the 4th ed I still found this study guide to be quite relevant to the material of the text.
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This is for the two-semester course. Silberberg offers a logical and unique approach to problem-solving, ground-breaking visualization of atomic/molecular interactions, and essential connections between chemical principles and real-world processes.
The package contains a "Stand Alone Study Partner CD-ROM and a Student Record Keeping Disk".
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There is nothing good about this book.......2006-07-10
The solutions offered are mediocre at best and are only offered for the problems where the answer is already given in the back of the book. Honestly, do not buy this book unless you want to spend $40 for pure frustration and eventual fire kindling.
Worthless.......2003-08-28
This book is completely worthless. It only provides the answers to the questions that already have answers in the back of the book. Don't waste your money, there's nothing worthwhile in this book.
It helps.......2003-01-19
I didn't think the book would help at all but when I spent some time looking at it and reading it, it makes alot of the subjects more clear. I would definitely recommend it to everyone.
Buyer Beware.......2002-11-27
Don't waste you money! I bought this book thinking it would help me with my chemistry class. I hoped it would add extra problems for me to work and help when I was studying, doing the calculations outside the classroom. The only thing it helped was the publisher's profit margin. This book is all but useless. About the only thing it's good for is adding weight to your backpack. It gives you no more information than what's in the back of the book. The only problems worked in the book are the ones with answers in the back of the book. There is really nothing extra. No explanations on how the problems were worked out, no detail in the calculations, no extra examples or problems for practice. Nothing is described or shown in any detail whatsoever. All that's there is the answer and a small portion from the end of the calculation. No explanation as to how the problems are worked or how they arrived at the answer. To top it all off, it was written by grad students and some of the calculations are wrong. After reviewing it, my professor even said it was a waste of money and doesn't recommend buying it. You'd be better off buying the STUDY GUIDE that goes with the text instead of the solutions manual. Again, don't waste your money on this book!
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During the Tertiary, Spain suffered compressional collision between France and Africa, and its Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts have been further modified by extensional rifting. Because it includes sectors of two separate foreland basins, and an intervening craton with basins that have been influenced by extensional and strikeSHslip deformation, Spain provides excellent material for the development and testing of theories on the study of sedimentary basin formation and filling. This book is one of the few studies available in English of the important Tertiary geology of Spain.
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Marty and the Dancing Butterflies.......2004-05-30
After I was being move from one state to another because, my parents got a new job meaning I had to leave all of my friends and family behind, This made me so nervous, that it frighten me because I didn't know what to expect at the new school I will be going to, I was like the little boy in the story nervous. But thanks to my grandma for purchasing this book for me because it help me a whole lot to adjust to meetand make new friends. Thanks for the book I love it and made me feel better about moving to a strange place. This is the book for anyone who is moving for any reason at all. My mom help me with this because she feel this is an excellent book for all parents who have little children in school and have to move them to another school.
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