Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics (2nd Edition)

Rating:
Summary: An excellent advanced text, but lacking in explanation
Review: Steinfeld's book is an excellent text for those who have a thorough background in Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics. However, for the introductory graduate level kinetics course or advanced undergraduate kinetics course, I would not recommend this text. Steinfeld does not illustrate any of the concepts with actual data or explanatory problems. Furthermore, the problems at the end of the chapter have very little to do with the material they are supposed to cover. Finally, there are many mistakes in this edition. They are mostly typos, but they add a lot of confusion to the material

I would recommend this book only to people who have a very complete background in kinetics and dynamics as a nice reference book.

Rating:
Summary: An excellent advanced text, but lacking in explanation
Review: Steinfeld's book is an excellent text for those who have a thorough background in Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics. However, for the introductory graduate level kinetics course or advanced undergraduate kinetics course, I would not recommend this text. Steinfeld does not illustrate any of the concepts with actual data or explanatory problems. Furthermore, the problems at the end of the chapter have very little to do with the material they are supposed to cover. Finally, there are many mistakes in this edition. They are mostly typos, but they add a lot of confusion to the material

I would recommend this book only to people who have a very complete background in kinetics and dynamics as a nice reference book.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Review: This is an excellent book if you know the basis of chemical kinetics. I recommended it especially for university students in
this matter.