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Technology Information:

Physical Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry: Atoms, Molecules, and Spectroscopy (Student Text)

Description

This book, designed to encourage active and collaborative learning in the physical chemistry classroom, is a collection of group activities (ChemActivities) that can accompany any physical chemistry text. Intended to accompany one semester of the full-year physical chemistry course, it incorporates new methods for teaching chemistry, reflecting current research on how students learn.

These ChemActivities take a guided inquiry approach to the material, which teaches students how to think like scientists, rather than simply memorizing important conclusions arrived at by great scientists of the past. Students develop a strong conceptual understanding and appreciation of the material by carefully observing new situations, constructing logical conclusions based on these observations, and discussing the merits of their conclusion with peers.

There are two books in this series: Physical Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry: Atoms, Molecules, and Spectroscopy and Physical Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry: Thermodynamics. Publishing the ChemActivities in two separate volumes allows them to reflect the typical division of content in a full-year physical chemistry course, where one semester is devoted to traditional thermodynamics and another semester to modern quantum mechanics. Separating the two volumes allows instructors to select the volume appropriate for their course.

• The web site includes a section on kinetics that matches the format of the ChemActivities. Putting this material online as well as in the Thermodynamics book allows instructors to teach the material in either semester of the physical chemistry course.
• Clearly labeled scientific "Models" appear throughout each ChemActivity in bulleted and illustrated formats. These explanations of scientific theories help students develop their conceptual understanding of the material.
• "Focus Questions" appear before each "Model" and serve as a primer for students, preparing them for the material in the ChemActivity.
• "Critical-Thinking Questions" appear after each "Model" and ask students to explore ideas in a number of ways. Students might be required to explain a concept, draw a molecule, complete a table, or write an explanation about a topic to another student. This multi-faceted approach addresses different learning styles, helps solidify a student's comprehension, and reveal areas of weak understanding.
• "Information" sections include background material, illustrated with figures, on the "Models" presented.
• "Exercises" follow "Models" and test students' problem-solving ability.

Reviews

Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2008-06-30
Summary: "Not Quite a "Complete" Solutions Manual"

With P-Chem being one of the harder chemistry courses out there, and such poorly-written textbooks out there, having a good supplement and solutions manual is a major help. This solutions manual is meant to accompany "Physical Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry: Atoms, Molecules, and Spectroscopy" (ISBN: 0618308547 or 978-0618308545).

Like I wrote in the title of my review, this is not really a "Complete Solutions Manual" as the title leads you to believe. It's more of a "student Solutions Manual", with answers only to certain questions.

While it was not a complete solutions manual as I had thought when I bought it, I still found it useful to see what kinds of answers the author was looking for to his questions when I got a little lost from time to time. Having this solutions manual is probably worth it for most students, but definitely not an absolute necessity.

The bottom line, it might save you some time when trying to figure out a concept or help you to get over a question that really stumps you - and for me, it was worth the purchase price.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2008-06-30
Summary: "A Good P-Chem Supplement!"

Everyone knows P-Chem is one of the harder chemistry courses out there, and one of the main reasons is that most of the P-Chem textbooks are so poorly written. Tough this book is not a textbook, in some ways it surpasses the major P-Chem textbooks in use out there because it takes complicated p-chem concepts and breaks them down into simpler concepts.

Like I said earlier, this is not really a textbook - in fact, it is more like a workbook. Each section begins with descriptive information about a subject followed by related questions that stack on each other that as you answer them lead you to understanding the larger concept at-hand.

This book is great for studying for exams - or at least the ones I took in P-Chem II and the American Chemical Society (ACS) final exam.

The reason I gave it four stars instead of five was that sometimes it asks you to draw conclusions that are a little too far apart based on the information you're given, and I think the author (Moog) might be forgetting what it's like to be learning this for the first time. It might help to also obtain the solutions manual (ISBN: 978-0618308576 or 0618308571). I had it and found that looking at some of the problem's solutions helped me to understand what direction they were trying to lead me.

All-in-all a pretty useful book, and an improvement when it comes to P-Chem resources.