Introductory Chemistry: A Foundation

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Summary: A Good Chem Book
Review: This book, although not excellent, is very good. One of the first things you notice is how cleanly laid out it is and how the examples are clearly written in plain English. The graphs and tables in this book are not only intuitive for the non-chem. background students but are also very attractive to the eye. This was a good book and I did learn quite a large amount of information from it.

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Summary: is this useful for AP chem?
Review: this text book was provided by my school to use throughout the year in ap chem. although the step-by-step worked problems in each chapter's text were sometimes helpful, they tended to make things too complicated. when i missed a lecture and tried to complete my homework solely from the book, i found myself working problems in a completely different manner from my instructor- whose methods tended to be much faster and easier to use. in addition, i didn't see any information on solutions with mulitple solutes in the book, and unfortunately that was a major topic on the free response questions this year.