Schaum's Outline of Organic Chemistry

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The new edition of this study guide makes learning organic chemistry much easier than with the usual textbook, and it shows how organic chemistry is applied today in biological chemistry, medicine and industry. Grasping the concepts of this daunting subject is much easier with the clear, concise explanations backed up with hundreds of concrete examples. Students learn how to solve problems step-by-step; they can further hone their skills solving additional problems with answers.

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Planet Orgo..........2003-12-06

I am giving this book 3 stars because I did not receive much help from it. A lot of the information that was covered in this book did not go into enough detail, like an entire subject was explained in two sentences. I needed a little more explanation, but I guess this is why the book is deemed an outline.

I was able to gather some (a very small amount) useful information from it. But, pick the book up anyway, because to master Orgo you need as many resources as possible, especially at 3 in the morning and you are trying to figure out where to place an ethyl group. In addition to this book, grab an elementary type orgo book, like orgo for beginners or orgo for nursing majors. These type of books explain things with great detail using an ABC approach. Then do as many problems as you can! Buy a ring of notecards and write part of the reaction on the front and the rest on the back. Study these cards every night religiously. You should be able to make sense out of the reactions and pass the class with a good grade with a considerable amount of study. (I received an A using the above method)

Practice Makes Perfect.......2001-03-13

Schaum's outlines are perfect for what they propose to do -- give the student as much practice as possible. They are experience tools, not teaching tools. The secret to doing well in genchem/orgchem is to practice, practice practice. The more problems you do, the better you will become. Concepts and theories are only half the game in chemistry.

So you want to do better at Organic?.......2001-03-12

What you should remember about the Schaum's series is that all of them, though they may call themselves "outlines," are in fact rather cheap textbooks. They include many more solved problems than your standard textbook, but they are also not as slick or nice to look at.

The organic chemistry outline can be helpful to you, perhaps. The main draw is that each chapter includes a summary of reactions that might be worth it... if, that is, you already know which reactions are more useful than others. The amount of information is great, and this may make it difficult for you to sort out which ones are worth your attention.

The Schaum's outlines are, in my opinion, great for those motivated students who would like to gain some knowledge of the subject. They can also help when you are stuck with a problem, as chances are you will find a solved problem in the book that is at least similar. Whether that is worth the cost is another question.

it is not helpful.......2000-05-27

Very few of the Schaum's outline series are helpful. This one is no exception. It does nothing to clarify the confusing concepts. All it does is provide more problems. Anyone taking organic chemistry knows that it is hard enough to have time to do all the problems in the assigned textbook let alone do more from this book. Furthermore,the answers to the questions are poorly explained. Save your time and money and check out your school library for other helpful books instead.

Schaum's Easy Outline: Organic Chemistry

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Great study aid
not suitable to non-chem/bio major, some chapters not well written
BEST ORGO STUDY AID- HANDS DOWN!
waste of money
It's easy, so do not expect a lot from it.

Schaum's Easy Outline: Organic Chemistry
Herbert Meislich
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Boiled-down essentials of the top-selling Schaum's Outline series for the student with limited time

What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, it would have to be Schaum's Easy Outline series. Every book in this series is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its predecessor. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, each new title features a streamlined and updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form.

Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials.

Designed to appeal to underprepared students and readers turned off by dense text
Cartoons, sidebars, icons, and other graphic pointers get the material across fast
Concise text focuses on the essence of the subject
Delivers expert help from teachers who are authorities in their fields
Perfect for last-minute test preparation
So small and light that they fit in a backpack!

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Great study aid.......2006-01-23

After reviewing my notes and the assigned chapters in my organic chemistry courses, these outlines were very useful in bringing everything together.

Being able to review information in a new perspective really helps to elucidate on topics that may have been vaguely or ambiguously covered in a traditional text or lecture.

You won't be able to learn organic chemistry using these outlines alone. The book is, however, an excellent study aid that I highly recommend.

I have purchased other supplementary texts for organic chemistry, this one has been the most valuable. It is written in the perspective of someone teaching an organic chemistry course rather than that of chemist writing a reference guide - which cannot be said for a lot of the other material available.

not suitable to non-chem/bio major, some chapters not well written.......2005-09-25

i just finished reading the book. overall speaking this book, as is named, easy outline, give the essential part to the reader. however, i do not satisfy about the match of the figure with text description. say, on the DNA section, there is no remarks on which is base and which is sugar. i have no background at all and so it is very difficult for me to follow. the last chapter is the most important one to me, but worstly written.

chapters after 10 are not well written. some wrong figure. less instruction, less background especially to me, not a chem major, i could not follow. i have to rely on several other O-chem book to get me through.

the book is ok, perhaps to chem/bio major people. but need to be more thoughtful, and taking care with new O-chem reader (say common non-chem/bio student).

BEST ORGO STUDY AID- HANDS DOWN!.......2004-05-27

I just finished organic 1, and I could NOT have made it through without THIS LITTLE GEM! We were assigned the WADE Organic book, which was not bad, the "hints" were useful, but who has time to read through those dense confusing chapters meticulously- it's too much talk when what you really need is the BIG PICTURE of what is going on! This book is a little POWERHOUSE-- it gives you the barebone rules and laws which you can easily read and memorize--over and over again! You can't do reactions without MEMORIZATION-- you need the clear-cut rules first before analyzing anything. Now, it's not perfect, (but what is?), some reactions are not mentioned, but combine this with your NOTES (take down EVERYTHING THE PROF. SAYS of course!) and you'll fill in all the gaps and be able to UNDERSTAND SN1, SN2, E2,E1 and all the fun alkene, alkane, alkyne reactions that will rapidly come your way! With this baby and your class notes, forget about reading those 1000+ pages of bulky verbose confusing textbooks! what a waste of time!
Combine this with your notes and you will "get it"! I was able to make some KILLER clear-cut, one page - reaction charts just from this book! IF YOU NEED ORGO HELP, READ THIS BOOK OVER AND OVER AGAIN, (+your notes) & TRUST ME, YOU WILL GET IT!

waste of money.......2003-10-20

This book does not help you at all, it just confuses you. I'm in organic I now, and I have not used it once. Maybe another author would have been better. It is not a substituion for the text book.

It's easy, so do not expect a lot from it........2003-01-03

"Schaum's easy outline:organic chemistry" is a packbackable book that is affordable for your budget. However, as it is an outline, it only functions as a guideline: briefly contains the very main topics in organic chemistry. My reccomendation is to use this book as a guide only because your organic textbook (whatever it is, mine is Brown and Foote's Organic Chemistry) has more details and good explanations.

Schaum's Easy Outlines: College Chemistry (Schaum's Easy Outlines)

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Schaum's Easy Outlines: College Chemistry (Schaum's Easy Outlines)
Jerome Rosenberg , and Lawrence M. Epstein
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ASIN: 0070527148

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Boiled-down essentials of the top-selling Schaum's Outline series for the student with limited time

Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials.

Designed to appeal to underprepared students and readers turned off by dense text
Cartoons, sidebars, icons, and other graphic pointers get the material across fast
Concise text focuses on the essence of the subject
Delivers expert help from teachers who are authorities in their fields
Perfect for last-minute test preparation
So small and light that they fit in a backpack!

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Review with no title.......2000-08-12

This review was based on the 2000 version, the newest one, of the College Chemistry. After studying this as a guildline to the subject of Chemistry, I found out that this book had very good and short explanations of all the important concepts. However, this study guild's value had been destoried because the amount of misprints and errors in the example problems. This book seemed to be rushed to meet the 2000 year time. Therefore,the mistakes in it was overlooked. To learn concepts, the book is a very good aid, however to look at the examples, it is very poor and sad to see those simple mistakes.

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The third Conference on Computation and Control was held at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana from August 5-11, 1992 and this proceedings represents the evolution that the conference has taken since its 1988 and 1990 predecessors. The first conference and proceedings (Volume 1 in Progress in Systems and Control Theory) nurtured a dialogue between researchers in control theory and the area of numerical computation. This cross-fertilization was continued with the 1990 conference and proceedings (Volume 11 in Progress and Control Theory) while forecasting the theme for this conference.

The present volume contains a collection of papers addressing issues ranging from noise abatement via smart material technology, robotic vision, and parameter identification to feedback design challenges in fluid control and other areas of topical interest. The area of feedback design challenges in fluid control spawns computational challenges in the form of Burgers' equation which is addressed both with standard numerical methods as well as new computational procedures. Applications which involve inverse problems include material parameter estimation and sampling in observability. Whether motivated by the plant or arising as the distributed system in the design of a feedback compensator for problems in nonlinear control, the theme of this conference placed an emphasis on the use of partial differential equations in control theory. This volume represents the work of experts in both computation and control who have focused state of the art techniques in both fields on the solution of problems involving distributed parameters systems and control.

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Auditory Sound Transmission provides an integrated, state-of-the-art description and quantitative analysis of sound transmission from the outer ear to the sensory cells in the cochlea of the inner ear. It describes in detail the structures and mechanisms involved and gives their input and transmission characteristics. It shows how sound transmission in one part of the ear depends on the input characteristics of the next part and how sound is analyzed in the inner ear before it reaches the nervous system.

The book is divided into seven chapters. The first gives the general overview of the path of sound in the ear. The second concerns the acoustics of the outer ear which is important not only for sound transmission in the ear but also for the design and calibration of earphones, as well as for clinical and research measurements of sound pressure in the ear canal. The third chapter analyzes the middle ear function which is crucial for adapting the conditions of sound propagation in the air to those in the inner ear fluids. The middle ear is prone to various malfunctions, and it is shown how they change the acoustic conditions measured in the ear canal and can be diagnosed on this basis. The next three chapters are dedicated to the most intricate mechanical part of the auditory system, the cochlea. Because of its complexity, its function is explained in three steps: first, with the help of simplifications produced by death; second, on the basis of the measured characteristics of the live organ; third, with the help of quantitative analysis. The last chapter describes cochlear mechanisms underlying pitch and loudness perception.

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Terrific book that mixes suspense with some funny.

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Oscar Wilde un extraordinario escritor.......2000-03-27

Es una historia sencilla pero eso no deja que sea magnifica y entretenida

Terrific book that mixes suspense with some funny........1999-10-23

Thi is the first time I start readinng a book and can't leave it since I finish it .If you have a couple of hours read it!!

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