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Summary: Painful
Review: If you have to take P. Chem for your degree and you're not a Chem major - pray you don't get this book. Atkins and Tinoco are far simpler and easier to read. It really seems like van Holde enjoys making his discussion as complicated as possible. P. Chem is bad enough - this book only makes it worse.
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Summary: DON'T BUY THIS BOOK
Review: THIS BOOK IS A PIECE OF CRAP AND A WASTE OF TIME TO FIGURE OUT. I WOULD SUGGEST READING STUFF OFF THE INTERNET AND READING JOURNALS RATHER THAN WASTE TIME WITH THIS PIECE OF TOILET PAPER. I AM GONNA FLUNK THE CLASS CUZ OF THIS PEICE OF CRAP BOOK. DONT BUY THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!! AAAHHHHH!!!!
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Summary: horrible
Review: This is the worst textbook I have ever had!!!!!
It is difficult to read, full of errors, and has little or no introduction into any of the topics. In the class I'm taking, even the chemistry majors are having trouble. Don't bother buying this book. It's not worth the money! - MS grad student in bioinformatics, Boston University
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Summary: DON'T BUY THIS BOOK
Review: This physical biochemistry text breaks down into three major sections: Macromolecular structure and dynamics. spectroscopy, and solution behavior of macromolecules. In very simple words, this treatise is not easy to read. It is definitely NOT for beginners in the field. In fact, the materials covered in this book require knowledge of chemistry major to comprehend. Treatment n quantum mechanics and spectroscopy in this text go as deep as perturbation theory with all the rigorus mathematics. Readers might want to study ut Atkins' Physical Chemistry before flipping to sectins on statistical thermodynamics. Sections on X-ray, NMR, and absorption spectroscopy are written very clearly but smewhat too terse. Yet the terse treatment of these topics does nt necessarily make the concepts easier to understand. Overall this text is worth all the information. Yet readers should be cautious abut whether ther are prepared for the level of mathematics and chemistry.
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Summary: Very good!
Review: With Cantor & Schimmel close to 20 years old, it's good to have a "modernized" text for biophysical chemistry. This book uses quite a bit of complicated mathematics; however, if you know ordinary & partial differential equations along with linear algebra and complex variables, you will be fine. The author's even suggest a review of mathematics for physical chemists in their introduction. Although some sections from Cantor & Schimmel are not "updated" (eg molecular orbital symmetry and dipole operators", the book makes good on LD and CD along with a strong section on transition dipoles and dipole-dipole interactions. I would recommend it although the price $81 (at least when I purchased it) is a little steep.
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