Problems and Solutions to Accompany Mcquarrie and Simon, Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Approach

As a medical microbiologist/sterilization microbiologist, it has proven necessary over the many years to stay current in many of the contributing sciences to my speciality. I do so on a semester basis. It was time again to go back to my Physical Chemistry and I was looking for a current title with a different approach to the course. While using the Mcguire & Simon (an excellent text for any class and especially for selft studying), it is necessary (as ever before with P. Chem) to do the problems. The normal difficulty is doing enough to set the concepts in the brain. Add to that finding the correct answer and you have a daunting problem in and of itself. The Problems & Solutions guide turns that problem into a very neat and usable solution. There are several minor errors, but they present themselves so as not to confuse the student. The presentation is a bit spartan, but still very usable and direct. If you are going to purchase McGuire & Simon (and I can't see why anybody wouldn't that's serious about the subject), you really should purchase the Problems & Solutions guide in order to get the most out of the subject. Finally, someone wrote a problem & solutions guide to a chemistry text that is worth owning and is very reasonably priced.

If you're using the McQuarrie textbook, let me first say I'm very sorry to hear that. However, one thing you can do to make your life a little better is to get a hold of this solutions manual. I would say having this manual is a MUST if you want to do anywhere near decent in a p-chem class using the McQuarrie book.The solutions manual has worked solutions to all problems - not just even or just odd problems. Another nice feature is that it also restates the problem in the solutions manual. This may not sound like big deal, but when you see the the size of the McQuarrie textbook (thicker than a phone book!) you get tired of lugging the book and solutions manual around. So if you have a quick homework assignment to turn in and want to take the easy way out ;) you can just use the solutions manual only and not even bring the textbook to wherever you're going.

I purchased this to help me understand the approaches that should be taken when solving my P. Chem homework. The guide can be very helpful, but still leaves a lot to be desired on some problems. There are often many steps skipped that the author assumes you can figure out yourself and on a few problems, the solutions are flat out wrong. I have been stuck for an hour or two trying to figure out how they get their answers, when they are completely wrong, so if you find yourself in a similar situation, it might be best to seek help elsewhere. Overall, I found this book to be very helpful and just wish that it had been better edited.

Will assist my teaching of Physical Chemistry.

It's a good book for p chem

This solutions manual to THE classic physical chemistry textbook contains quite a few errors and the logical steps are not always clear to many problems contained therein. While has proven its utility to myself in the past and, more recently, many other physical chemistry students, it is not always the final word. Users of this solutions manual should keep a keen eye on numbers and one may have to consult other resources for eductional purposes..

Shipping was fast, and the book is brand new. I bought the paperback. That is my review for the product as sent from the sender. As for the book and the solutions themselves, I can't complain. They are comprehensive but they don't give every last detail in derivations. I like this so that I can practice my math skills, and so forth.

This solutions manual covers the problems in the textbook by McQuarrie. The problems are challenging if you don't have your Calculus I-III skills down so if you're taking a Physical Chemistry course and don't have the math you need, buy this!

Il testo è veramente utile per chiunque voglia cimentarsi a risolvere gli innumerevoli problemi di fine capitolo del McQuarrie. E' da intendere che comunque tale testo non deve assolutamente sostituire il ragionamento critico per risolvere un quesito, ma deve servire da supporto per verificare la correttezza dei risultati a cui si è giunti da soli e col proprio ragionamento. Visto sotto questa ottica, nell'andare a verificare il procedimento non di rado capiterà di trovare un percorso diverso, ma che porta allo stesso risultato, il che a mio parere è davvero speciale e infonde molta fiducia nelle proprie capacità di analisi e ragionamento.Per tali ragioni lo consiglio a chiunque stia studiando o abbia come testo di riferimento il "Physical Chemistry - a molecular approach"

Worth buying to accompany the text. However, you should try your best to tackle the problems yourself and use this problem solutions manual as a helper when you are stuck.

Great product, solutions are very clear

当初、17日までの到着と記載されていましたが、19日になっても届きませんでした。こちらから問い合わせましたところ、数時間で返信をいただきました。システムエラーにより26日到着予定のところ記載間違いとのことでした。ちなみに普通郵便なので追跡番号はないそうです。そして本日25日、無事に到着しましたのでレビューとしてご連絡いたします。内容については弟のものなので未開封です。よって、開封次第追記させていただきます。追記(12/27)梱包が丁寧で、圧縮されたビニールに包まれている上からダンボールの板で挟んであり、外袋に入っていたので折れ曲がり等もありませんでした。すべての解説が載っておりとても分厚く、思っていた以上に内容も充実しているようで満足していました。

電話帳並に厚くて重いですが、解説は詳しいです。使うところだけ印刷したり、見たい解説をスマホで写真を撮ると使いやすいと思います。マッカーリ・サイモン物理化学を完璧に理解するには必携の書です。勿論、本文を読み問題は別の参考書でという使い方もありますがマッカーリは問題数も豊富で良質な問題が多いので1度はやってみる価値があると思います。