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With its modern emphasis on the molecular view of physical chemistry, its wealth of contemporary applications (in the new “Impact on” features), vivid full-color presentation, and dynamic new media tools, the thoroughly revised new edition is again the most modern, most effective full-length textbook available for the physical chemistry classroom.
 
NOW AVAILABLE IN SPLIT VOLUMES
For maximum flexibility in your physical chemistry course, this text is
now offered as a traditional or in two volumes.
• Volume 1:  Thermodynamics and Kinetics (ISBN 0-7167-8567-6)
• Volume 2:  Quantum Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and Statistical
Thermodynamics (ISBN 0-7167-8569-2)
See Table of Contents for the contents of each volume.

Price: $120.00
Rating: 2.0 (14 reviews)

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  1. Which is the difference between the Prof. Atkins’ (and De Paula) ‘Physical Chemistry’ (december 2001) and this book, written with the Prof. Locke (january 2002). Two editions in 1 month?!?!
    Rating: 1 / 5

    Comment by andrew — January 25, 2010 @ 5:47 pm

  2. Murray Rothland wrote, “Every once in a while the human race pauses in the job of botching its affairs and redeems itself by a noble work of the intellect”. Atkins book is just such a noble work. Rare is it to find a technical text that reads more like a novel, but Atkins does. Not only is the topic fascinating on its own (mostly the physics of molecules), but Atkins raises it to the level of riveting. In those far off years of the university experience for this reader, it was said only a genius could grasp physical chemistry – not true, at least not with Atkins leading the way. Atkins uses varied tools with so many well-chosen angles on description that the reader sees things in nature never realized before. Most often through analogies to what we know well, e.g. the familiar constructive & destructive interference (wave mechanics) applied to wave functions (Schrödinger’s sometimes confounding quantum probability description) yielding electron orbitals with shapes that suddenly make sense. That “ah-ha” experience is so frequently felt while reading this book it’s simply hard to put it down, for anything. There are apparently several versions of this 2006 8th edition. The two in paperback come in color or black-&-white. There’s also 4 years of access to the book’s website, including the text, all its figures, spread sheets and MathCad models. A salute to Oxford University Press and Atkins for this remarkable resource.

    Rating: 5 / 5

    Comment by Brett Williams — January 25, 2010 @ 8:26 pm

  3. and that’s about it. It was one of the worst science textbooks I have encountered and if I never have to see it again, that’s too soon. About 1 question out of every 5 was wrong, and there were huge errors throughout the text. Things were explained poorly and I actually did better when I didn’t have the book confusing me. I don’t know about this book, but other books by Peter Atkins only get worse with each new addition. I was very happy when I was able to get rid of it.
    Rating: 2 / 5

    Comment by WequeMD — January 25, 2010 @ 8:54 pm

  4. That is the worst physical chemistry textbook I’ve ever seen, though I haven’t seen too many. To not go into deep detail this is about the material presentation. The choices that the authors made on what to tell and what not to tell as well as what to say about some concepts and issues are against the goal of good understanding and memorizing.

    The new edition has colored pictures and “Impact On” sections which is very good, but I can not be silent about the thing that I cannot imagine could come to someone’s head: the was an attempt to convert as many units as possible to SI all over the book. Like, it says “dm^3 (decimeter cubed)” everywhere where it would say “l (liter)” in 7th edition.

    The atomic energies are expressed in attojoules. Good thing they haven’t completely removed the electronvoltes, but it’s not that easy to find them now.

    The only reason to buy this book is when you have no other choice.
    Rating: 1 / 5

    Comment by Usve The Suomi — January 25, 2010 @ 10:28 pm

  5. The delivery took well over 14 business days to arrive. That said, the book was in perfect condition. Overall, I consider it average service.
    Rating: 3 / 5

    Comment by Manbear — January 25, 2010 @ 11:06 pm

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