Physical Chemistry

by RS BERRY and R.S. Berry

Book Overview

The authors offer more examples, more figures and many new problems. Two parallel sets of problems end each chapter. Begins by demonstrating the power and limits of thermodynamics with a more... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471048291
• ISBN13: 9780471048299
• Release Date: January 1964
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 1422 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent supplement for serious treatments of physical chem

This is an excellent text for serious and independent students of physical chemistry looking for interactive learning experiences. It is not for dabblers, but for the preparation of future practitioners in the field. The book maintains a balance between presenting the material in the text outright and asking the student to participate in his/her own understanding of physical chemical principles by a "discovering by doing" philosophy. If you cannot stand a "fill in the blanks" sort of Socratic method in a book, then this is probably not your cup of tea. But for people who want to thoroughly understand the material on a very detailed level, this is one of the best teaching techniques around. Having taken the course offered by Silbey and used this text for that undergraduate physical chemistry course, I can say that no other method serves the student as well in giving the student an opportunity for an intuitive understanding of the material. If you are serious about understanding this material beyond throwing down the equations and crunching the math, it will be well worth taking Silbey and Alberty's lead on this strong introduction and journey through PChem.

A Great Undergrad P-Chem book

This is a book that I originally got out of the campus library to try to make sense of Atkins' P-CHem book. The Atkin's Book assumes that you already know a lot of basic assumptions which most of my class does not seem to know. Alberty and Silbey do not make these assumptions. THough Atkins goes into more detail, Alberty and SIbley have a nice book to make a solid foundation on.

The Best Physical Chem book on the market

In comparassion to other undergraduate P. Chem books this one stands head and shoulders above the rest. It blends together the calculus and chemistry of the subject in such a way as to completely get the point across. In another surprising turn it also keeps the reader interested in the subject matter, something that other texts on the subject fail to do. The examples and problems are clear to follow and further get the point across. Without this text I would have been lost in my P. Chem class.