Chemical Principles, Enhanced Edition (with Enhanced WebAssign with eBook Printed Access Card)

By Steven S. Zumdahl and Donald J. DeCoste

Book Overview

Already known for helping you develop the qualitative, conceptual foundation that gets you thinking like a chemists, this Enhanced Edition has been specially updated to include instant access to ENHANCED WEBASSIGN, the most widely-used and reliable homework system. This market-leading text is designed for students with solid mathematical preparation and prior exposure to chemistry. The unique organization of the text supports this qualitative-to-quantitative approach. A strong emphasis on models and everyday applications of chemistry combines with a thoughtful, step-by-step problem solving approach to build conceptual understanding.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439043981
• ISBN13: 9781439043981
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Length: 1232 Pages
• Weight: 5.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 1.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Great Purchase

I got this book for a great price. The book came in a timely manner and was revealed to be in great condition (as specified). Thank you

Phenomenal (For a STRONG chemistry student)

First of all i want to say that Zumdahl is fantastic. I love his work and his textbooks. Chemical principles is a rigorous and through college entry level chemistry textbook. It assumes a slight amount of previous knowledge of the material, but even without it, a mind designed for chemistry would have no problem learning from this textbook. I find that many people are complaining about its difficulty because of the subject matter, not the book itself. This is not Zumdahl's chemistry, it is Chemical Principles, an honors level textbook. It is much more quantitative and shows many more derivations than his other textbooks, which for someone like me (a physics major) is absolutely what I look for in a textbook. Bravo Zumdahl.

timely, great purchase

THe book was in great condition, like new and it arrived in a timely fashion. I had no problems what so ever. Great price!

Chemical Principles

Chemical Principles Chemical Principles is a fantastic book! I use it as a reference text with anything i dont understand being looked up straight away in this book. I am a high school student who has found this book to be very useful in my studies of chemistry! I recommend that you buy this book as i found it easy to understand and has many examples questions and activities for you to do.

Good and bad

The main strength of the book is its large amount of interesting and largely error-free problems. Unfortunately, some of the more advanced material isn't really well explained. A good example is the book's coverage of particle-in-a-box: it's covered well enough for a beginning student to solve some problems, but without the more thorough follow up you get in a quantum class, you're just pushing symbols. The same goes for many of the other, somewhat more advanced topics in the book - MO theory, gas dynamics, etc.It may have made pchem and inorganic a little easier, but it made for frustrating reading at the time.