- Hardcover
- Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall; CD-Rom edition (June 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0131663755
- ISBN-13: 978-0131663756
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3.4 out of 5 stars (14 customer reviews)
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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An overall Disappointment, Mar 14 2006
By Mr. Charles X. Gormally - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Prentice Hall Chemistry (Hardcover)
This book was largely a disappointment. I had heard previously that this was the leading high school text that is used and had high expectations. I was disappointed to find a plethora of type errors (including math mistakes!) and also very poor descriptions of things like bonding theory, equilibrium constants, reaction rates etc. The book covers a lot but fails to get real advanced in much of anything. I would reccomend for the advanced high school student a college level text with a good teacher instead of wasting your time on this.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
My highschool textbook, Sep 16 2008
By Veiyun "Vivian" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Prentice Hall Chemistry (Hardcover)
This book is a good study aid if you have a good instructor. However, depending on this book to teach you chemistry may become a little confusing (as my high school teacher is currently doing). I noticed that it's not very straightforward. Say you were learning about radiation - the types of radiation and how decay occurs. The text itself won't tell you exactly how the mass or atomic number changes after a certain radioactive decay. Rather, it provides you with assessment questions at the end of each section with direct questions about number changes, making it so that you would have to figure out from the extensive number of examples what the answer is. This textbook's method of teaching is making the reader infer, which is great for literature, but certainly not for textbooks. I recommend something that is more concise and straightforward: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chemistry, 2nd Edition (Complete Idiot's Guide to). What takes 3 pages to explain in the textbook is explained in 3 paragraphs in this guide.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
not for the average self learner, Mar 1 2010
By E. Maddaleni - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Prentice Hall Chemistry (Hardcover)
This book is fine for students who have no problem manipulating equations anddon't mind doing calculation after calculation after calculation after calculation...
Way to many calculations for the student who just wants a basic idea of what chemistry is
all about. Probably a good book for students who naturally are good at calculating, self
learning, figuring out problems with little guidance. The assessments always present
problems in a way that is different than how they were presented in the examples.
Very frustrating for this homeschool mom whose high school aged daughter is not interested in the subject. (She started off a little interested, now is just completely turned off to it.) Even her math tutor doesn't want to
tackle some of the problems.
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