Physical Chemistry

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Summary: The worst book for Physical Chemistry
Review: Atkins confused people more than he made people understand. This book couldn't explain in a good manner. The treatment in the Thermodynamics is poor. However, the Quantum is pretty well-written. It will be better if you use Gilbert Castellan's Physical Chemistry or Ira Levine's instead of this bad book.

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Summary: The worst Physical Chemistry Book ever written
Review: This book is used at Rutgers University and no one including the professors had one good thing to say about it. It is both confusing and unreadable. I have never encountered a book that is as useless as this book....save yourself money and go to you college library and check out Ira Levine or any other P-chem. book not written by Atkins. I cannot understand why universities across the world use this book. In my entire life I have never had to struggle through a class as much as I have had to struggle through this class and this is mostly due to Atkins inability to explains the topic of physical chemistry in a clear manner.

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Summary: Muddled written book, don't buy it!
Review: Unfortunately this book is used at DTU, Denmark, and I had to teach from it for 3 years. NOT a good experience!!! The book is unusable for teaching, its muddled in any way and makes every subject very hard to understand. DO NOT BUY this book!!

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Summary: This Book is NOT worth Buying!!!
Review: This book is the absolute worst treatment of physical chemistry I have read. The concepts are not explained well. Sample problems given at the end of the chapter are not able to be done unless you have a phd in physical chemistry. They do not relate to what is taught in the chapter.

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Summary: A sad approach to physical chemistry
Review: Mr. Atkins' treatment of basic physical chemistry is at best useless and at worst confusing, misleading and last but not least extremely boring. Does not promote any interest in the discipline - none whatsoever. The diagrams in the book (which the author claims the credit for) are sad. I have been a teacher for 31 years and I have never in my life seen such an attempt to explaine these fundamental issues. Besides I have never had so many stupid questions from the students since I started using this book.

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Summary: It is not good book, but it is used book in my university
Review: it is more expensive boo

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Summary: An acceptable textbook.
Review: Although I cannot claim to have read more than two textbooks on physical chemistry, the material in this particular text that focuses on quantum dynamics is quite possibly the finest available. My frame of reference, of course, being two books.

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Summary: THE WORST CHEMISTRY BOOK I HAVE
Review: As a undergraduate student at Hamline Univerity, I found Atkins physical chemistry book hard to read, unless and only confused me more about a subject that I want to explore further in Grad. School

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Summary: Atkins 6th edition is a slimmer more organized text
Review: Contrary to the bulk of reviews of this text I found Atkins used a quite logical "from the ground up" method of organization for the presentation and complete derivation of thermodynamics. The chemical thermodynamics section of the text is excellent with many ties to qualitative statistical thermodynamic notions. The text does falter in several minor aspects: the section on kinetics is disorganized and lacking in significant depth, and several problems are poorly worded. The Quantum Chemistry section is also a little shallow when compared to the text by McQuarrie, however, it serves as a decent introduction to quantum mechanics for the average chemist.

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Summary: A nice and easy-understanding text for phys. chem beginners
Review: This textbook offers straight-forward interpretations in different topics in physical chemistry. An excellent text for undergraduate students. Also a good reference for any physical chemistry students.