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Following a consistent format, each lab experiment begins with objectives and prelab questions highlighting important issues that must be understood prior to getting started.
This is followed by detailed step-by-step procedures for performing the experiments. Students report specific results in sections designated for data, observations, and calculations. Containing enough material for two or three terms, this lab manual emphasizes chemical principles as well as techniques. In addition, the manual helps students understand the timing and situations for various techniques. Petersen of The University of Memphis as revised by M.
Freilich and M. Rosenberg and, on "opening day" of the semester, may be downloaded by students enrolled in the course at no charge from the course's eCourseware web site. My freshmen chemistry class performed roughly 30 of the experiments found within the book, ranging from identifying basic properties like density, molecular weight, volume, etc. Journal of Chemical Education Vol 94, No We covered at least one experiment from each of the major sections in the book.
Offered: A. Includes laboratory. This includes detailed guides for the pre-lab, data sheet, post-lab, and quiz questions. Experiment will have you observe light and use a spectroscope. Remember, the lab may change or be modified from semester to semester! Experiment 9 is broken up into three main parts - A. Flame Tests, B. Using the Spectroscope, and C. Atomic Spectra. With this manual, you won't get lost in class and you might just learn something new as well.
Moreover, the student will be The lab manual will have all the experiment procedures you will be performing during the semester including their respective datasheet and postlab questions.
Experiment 4 Paper Chromatography, 75 This includes detailed guides for the pre-lab, data sheet, post-lab, and quiz questions. Chem lab manual answers. Each student will then sign a statement affirming his or her commitment to following safe procedures in the laboratory, and turn the form in to the instructor. Be especially aware of the need for adequate eye protection and proper dress in the laboratory. Normally, experiments will be performed in groups of two to three students.
Students should arrive at the lab on time with their lab manual and lab coat. After you have completed the experiment, clean and organize your station and show me your results to examine and initial your lab report before you leave. Complete laboratory reports are due on the next lab day. Each report must be done individually, but of course you can work with your lab partners on it. Each report will be graded on a point scale. The online version needs a glossary, page number, header to show the relevant chapter and the missing images should be fixed.
There is overlay of the scrolling pages over the navigation bar that can be fixed by a computer programmer. I didn't come across a grammatical errors but in PDF versions there are many cases of spelling errors caused by the elimination of spaces between words. The online version of the textbook has a good coverage of the subject and I'm considering to introduce it to my students as an option to save money.
The order of topics in several chapters and lack of proper formatting issues are the major drawbacks for me in adapting this textbook for my teaching. That being said, I greatly appreciate the efforts of the authors for taking time to produce this textbook. The book covers the essentials of a first year chemistry course, but it lacks depth and "readability". Indeed, this text could not be used as a standalone teaching option. Also, the text book would benefit from additional pictures and tables, anything to break up the eternal monotony of the words used in the text.
I deeply appreciate the time that went into creating a book like this; however, small details would benefit the reader and student of chemistry greatly.
The textbook was written in , so up to this date, the book seems very relevant. An update would, as always, be appreciated! The text uses a readable prose style. Although not super exciting, it is quite clear and consistent…. The text is very consistent in its terminology and framework.
I did not see overlapping definitions, or exceptions to previous sections, etc. With the exception of the first chapter, I found the text readily divisible into smaller segments.
This would be quite useful in a seminar course, or perhaps a course over a specific segment of chemistry…. However, the first chapter - and arguably the most important - seems to blend together in an undividable cluster…. Instead the introduction topics mesh and overlap each other, and I'd probably need a second textbook to augment this book were I to adopt it for my classes. I realize the option to make a text divisible is the prerogative of the authors, but it would be nice to have such a feature available.
The text is organized in a logical and very clear fashion. The format follows established progressions as set by other chemistry textbook authors…. I was quite surprised that the beginning of the textbook did not have a table of contents in the PDF version. The website and online version had a table of contents…. Also, to increase the readability of the material, adding in colorful pictures, diagrams, tables and examples would be wonderful: the text is rather dry at the moment, which I find disenchanting since the material is so fraught with wonder and awe.
The text did not rely on "he" or "she" and remained mostly gender neutral. I saw nothing in the text which would exclude specific races, ethnicities or backgrounds.
I appreciate the considerable efforts by the authors to create this text, and I wish to thank them for sharing their work with the public in this arena - thank you!
If you ever decide to write a new version or if you are considering adopting this book for your own classes , it would be nice to have some post information included; also, PLEASE include a table of contents in the PDF version of the textbook!!! The addition of additional pictures, diagrams, tables, etc. Overall I like this book, and given a few additions and changes, it would be great as well.
It is well organized and is laid out in the traditional approach. Each chapter contains graphics and illustrations, Each chapter contains graphics and illustrations, though many images are missing - labeled as permanently unavailable. This is especially evident in chapter 14 Kinetics , with minor omissions in just about every chapter. Minor formatting issues in chapter I think the text certainly could benefit from additional exercises, as well as perhaps adding a section of challenging exercises.
Customization of the text for use in any general chemistry course is certainly possible. As far as I can judge, the content is accurate and I did not come across any major flaws or misconceptions. The text is laid out such that it would be very easy to add to each section as necessary. At this point, applications within the text are current and will be able to be used for quite some time figure 2.
I would like to see a few more current events, figures, tables, or links to current events, woven into the text. The chemistry book has been written to reflect the traditional order of topics. I feel that the layout along with the nature of the book allows for any changes if a different arrangement of topics is what is desired by the curriculum. I opted to review the online version rather than downloading the pdf. Navigation of the text was easy using my PC and I did not come across any issues of loading of images.
Some of the images seem to be relatively small and I was wondering how these would look on a smaller tablet or IPad which is what many of my students use. Also, all chapters have links that refer back to previous chapters but none of the links opened on my PC. This book is very nicely written and easy to follow. The content is accurate, the text comprehensive and could easily be used in a general chemistry curriculum. It is a great online chemistry book and I would certainly think about adopting it for our general chemistry courses in the future.
However, at this point, it is not quite ready to be used as there are formatting issues and many missing images which distract from the otherwise very well written text. The text is designed to serve biological and biomedical students, engineering students, general education students, health sciences students, pre-medical science students, and science majors requiring at least one year course in general chemistry The text is designed to serve biological and biomedical students, engineering students, general education students, health sciences students, pre-medical science students, and science majors requiring at least one year course in general chemistry and the text contains all of the required material and topics to accomplish this task.
This textbook is a precursor to students who will be studying organic I chemistry and those students who may have to study advanced inorganic chemistry after the freshman and sophomore years, even the former section is too short in nature. The text lacks a table of contents, index or a glossary and the lack of these entities is a serious deficiency. There are some very serious formatting issues which may have been the result of converting from a. The online version has a warning in some places, i.
The image is permanently unavailable. There are also formatting problems with subscripts in chemical formulas NOT appearing as subscripts, again a formatting issue. This issue is more predominant in the pdf version, where fractions are not shown. It would have been wise for the authors to use Equation Editor to write mathematical equations and use ChemDraw for the structures and major equations followed by saving the files in the. The pdf version is way too long 2.
The textbook has some errors in conjunction with the formatting mentioned in question 1 from above. One case is where the electronic configurations of Cr and Cu are not correct. In another case, the magnitude and the units are not separated by a space, e. The history of chemistry should have been researched as the history of chemistry is very biased towards Europeans versus other races who really have been practicing chemistry for many years. The text and its examples are both relevant and timeless; the classic Haber-Bosch Process for the production of ammonia is an example.
Topics such as thermochemistry, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry are some of the topics that I learned as a high school student at The Lodge School in Barbados in the s.
Such topics will be around for many years to come. One thing to note, If instructors adopting this textbook had access to the original document as a MS Word document; then required updates would be simple and straightforward; as editing the textbook in converting a. The textbook is more than adequate in terms of clarity, however some of the example calculations would benefit from additional formatting as soon as possible. It is best to use Equation Editor to write the answers, and show the answers and equations, line by line, where dimensional analysis would be easier to understand.
A good example is in the use of this problem: Ethanol has an enthalpy of vaporization of The compound has a vapor pressure of 1. At what temperature is the vapor pressure equal to 0. Also, the calculations involving percentage abundances should be rewritten.
The textbook needs some overhaul in some areas, especially the topic involving transition metal chemistry. The textbook is very consistent in terminology and presentation, even with all of the errors and formatting within. All of the typical topics for a year-long general chemistry course are present, but having a table of contents the textbook would be very modular.
Personally, chapter 8 should have been merged with chapter 2. All thermochemical topics and problems should have been in one chapter. A chapter with covalent and ionic bonds should have presented along with Lewis dot structures. A more definitive chapter on mathematical concepts should have been the first chapter, inclusive of logarithms, indices, standard notation, and significant figures, and some brief statistical analysis. See my answer for question 6.
Some of the topics could have been reorganized and be combined as some appear to be segregated. The last chapter involving organic chemistry was tacked on and appeared to be rushed to make a comprehensive textbook. Simply put; there are just too many errors in equation both chemical and mathematical formatting to make this text useable. See my answer to question 1. It would be wise for the authors to have an English proof reader read this online textbook and correct this and all grammatical errors.
We need to have future STEM scientists write manuscripts and textbooks that are free of grammatical errors. This is a chemistry textbook that will be very useful for all races as chemistry is a universal science. As such, we at ODU, are always looking for ways to lower the cost of their education without a compromise in quality. I am very excited to learn of the Open Textbook Library as a method of reducing textbook costs, and was hopeful that this textbook would have met the needs of such students.
Unfortunately, at this moment in time, because of the significant formatting issues and the way the content is presented, I am unable to recommend this text to the instructors who teach at the freshman level. If in the future the problems I have highlighted in this review are corrected, I would be willing to recommend this textbook to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Old Dominion University.
There are two versions of this text, an online version and a pdf version, with a significant difference in quality between them. The pdf version does not have a table of contents, glossary, appendix or index, making it extremely difficult to The pdf version does not have a table of contents, glossary, appendix or index, making it extremely difficult to navigate, and leaving out the reference aspect of a textbook.
The online version, on the other hand, contains all of these things, and follows the table of contents accordingly. Again, there is a difference between the online version and the pdf one. The online version is formatted correctly, so that mathematical equations and calculations line up appropriately and all symbols, superscripts, etc. This formatting is lost in the pdf version, making it difficult to follow the examples even as a professor in the subject.
These accuracy issues apply only due to formatting in the pdf version. I found no inaccurate information, calculations or equations when reading through the online version. As general chemistry concepts are not changing, I find no longevity issues. The examples given are relevant to the real world, and tie in nicely with things that the students are better able to understand. The only issue would be those formatting ones that would be necessary updates for the pdf version.
The text itself is clear and well written, but again, the formatting within the pdf version makes it hard to understand and follow. Again, the online version is much better, but I cannot expect all of my students to remain online to read their textbook. Terminology and framework is consistent. I did not find any significant changes in how the material was presented or the terms used.
The online version is easy to parse into small sections or pieces, enabling you to assign different sections at different points in time. The pdf version would be impossible, as there is no table of contents, and it is trial and error with a lot of scrolling to find out where you are. There are no additional indicators or labels of section numbers or chapters except at the beginning of each chapter or section.
If the examples or exercises in the sections and chapters were numbered with the chapter and section, that'd make it a lot easier. The topics are presented in a logical order for a typical science major oriented curriculum. The flow is good.
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