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Summary: Excellent! - The Other reviewers don't lie at all!
Review: I hear that there is a new edition... I know that it'll be just as good... Dr. Levine really presents everything in a very clear, well organized fashion... I particularly enjoy the entire section that deals with Stat. Mechanics towards the end... I must admit that the QM section is also brilliant... I think that last thing that really helps this book is the section that deals with Kinetic Molecular Theory, which is very sparsely dealt with in Atkins... I have to say that using this as a primary textbook and Atkins as a secondary textbook really presents all of the subject material. I really hope to met Dr. L someday... Perhaps he can autograph my well worn copy!!
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Summary: Excellent physical chemistry text I've ever had
Review: I'm Japanese student learning physical chemistry. This book is for students. The auther write this book truely helupful manner and I can learn thremodynamics with great fun without confusing. And now,I just enter the chapter "kinetic theory of gases" ,this chapter is also written so kindly. If you hope to understand physical chemistry seriously, get this book. This book will be your necessary.
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Summary: A great author and professor!
Review: Prof. Ira Levine - the author of this text -- teaches at my alma mater, Brooklyn College. When I was an undergraduate, I was fortunate enough to take him for both semesters of Physical Chemistry. I must admit that he is both a wonderful lecturer and a great author. Any serious Physical Chemistry student should consider his textbook, which is clearly, written and well-organized. If you have any questions regarding my experiences with the textbook and/or lectures, feel free to e-mail me.
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Summary: A great author and teacher
Review: Reviewers who rate this book poorly are obviously not physical science or engineering majors. They blame Professor Levine's textbook for their own inability to grasp physical chemistry. Professor Levine's textbook is well organized, starting with first principles. All important topics and results are derived and explained, and Professor Levine points out common mistakes made by students. Chapters end in more advanced topics that one won't appreciate until they are in graduate school. Having used this textbook as an undergraduate gave me a lead over my colleagues in physical chemistry topics. To this day, it is the text I refer to most often when I need to resort to a chemistry reference. Students who can't appreciate the value of this work need to consider purchasing The Illustrated Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences.
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Summary: Worst Physical chemistry book ever
Review: The author use excessively long sentences, thinking that may help explaining things, but actually make it worse. 80 % of the students in the class claim that they know less after reading it. THe other 20% didn't use this book because they either give up or they are so smart to use other books. There are sentences that I read more than 30 times and got confused more progressively. another e.g. THe author use delta F and dealta G without explaining the difference. It is an total frustration. Compare other physical chemistry before you buy this one. 90% of all others are better. A good one would be : Physical Chemistry: With Applications to the Life Sciences
by David S. Eisenberg, Donald M. Crothers (Contributor)
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Summary: Graduate Level Book
Review: The physical chemistry text by Levine is a detailed text which I believe is best suited to the graduate student level. Someone who already has a basic understanding of physical chemistry, a solid calculus base, a course in matrix algebra, and a differential equations course can profit most from the detailed explainations in this book. This is especially true of the chapters on kinetic thermodynamics. Someone encountering physical chemistry for the first time may have a difficult time understanding the basics of the subject using this text.
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Summary: This book is awful
Review: This is a horrible book, possibly the worst Chemistry book I have ever had. The book is written in confusing, disconnected, language that is not geared toward the student, but rather to Levine's Ph.D collegues. Levine never gets to the point. Important concepts and ideas are drowned in needless jargon and text. I spent more time "hunting" for the important information rather than studying. In fact, there is so much useless material it is hard to distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant. It made for a very miserable Physical Chemistry course, and I actually learned more when I stopped reading the book and just worked a lot of problems. To any professors or students who are considering this book, I would recommend to stay far away from it, because it basically sucks.
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