Chemistry: Principles and Applications, 3rd Edition
Michell J . Sienko and Robert A. Plane, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1919. v + 691 pp. Figs. & tables. 24 X 19.5 cm. $19.00. This third edition in an excellent series is sufficiently different from its predecessor, "Chemical Principles and Properties" (reviewed in This Journal, &A40 (1975)).that i t has been renamed. The present edition is comprised of twenty-two chapters and nine appendices, with the chapters organized along fairly standard lines. The first two chapters treat chemical terminology, measurements, and stoichiometry. Following are three chapters on periodicity, atomic strueture, and molecular structure. States of matter and a treatment of solutions are covered in four ehapters. Chemical thermodynamics, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics, and chemical eauilibrium are each allotted one chaoter. After a descriotiiie chaoter on hydrogen, oxygen, and water, the quantitative aspects of equilibria in aqueous solutions are treated. This information is followed by a single chapter an electron descriptions, which deals with waves, atomic and molecular orbitals, vibrations, and symmetry. After five chapters of descriptive chemistry, the text concludes with a unit on nuclear chemistry. Each chapter ends with a listing of important concepts and a number of exercises. The exercises, of which there are more than 900, are coded according to difficulty. Interspersed, as appropriate, throughout the text are numerous, worked-out examples. Also available are a "StudehtIInstruetor Solutions Supplement" and a "Study Guide." ~
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The book is designed for students who have had a year of high school chemistry and who may have a need in their careers to know something about chemical principles. Perhaps the best way to highlight the overall approach taken would be to quote from the Preface: "Unlike preceding editions, which assumed that high school chemistry courses would become more mathematical and more abstract with time, this edition recognizes that present-day college students need more help than ever before to cape with both the theoretical and experimental sides of freshman chemistry." The authors have met this challenge, and the result is an excellent textbook that deserves the full consideration of all who teach students for whom it might be appropriate. Car D. Slater Memphis Slate University Memphis. TN 38152
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Chemical Prlnclples Third Edition
Richard E. Dickerson, Harry B. Gray, and Gilbert P. Hoight, Jr., Benjamin1 Cummings Publishing Company, 1979. vi 943 pp. Figs. and tables. 24 X 19.5 cm. $18.95.
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I t is pertinent t o begin this review with the admission by the authors in their preface that they are beginning in the middle of the
subject of chemistry. They promise proof and an elaboration of a host of topics in later portions of the book. Such an approach tempts one to make an extreme point of view; if the student will accept these essentials with nothing more than a few sentences of background, why reintroduce many of them at all. The willpawer of the instructor is sorely tested sinceone is tempted to teach theentire course in the first chapter. Only the best organized teachers could simply mention such topics as nuclear structure (including fundamental particles, nuclear stability, and isotopes), band types and bond forces, nature of ions and molecules, electrochemistry (including the vagries of redox nomenclature), and coordination number without feeling the need for additional development if thereis to be meaningful instruction. Stoichiometry is dealt with very early, including solutian-volume calculations. This approach is somewhat unique since "tradition" says you should preface the latter by solution behavior. Thermal chemistry is included as part of stoichiometry. This inelusion is quite reasonable since heat is a product or a reactant. This reviewer prefers less stress on equivalence and normality calculations in stoichiometry since the authors have admitted to "biting the bullet" on the adoption of SI Units (with some very obvious slips which are understandable). Normality and equivalence are not enthusiastically supported by the proponents of S1 Units. The choice of a textbook very often is a function of the &cordance possible between lecture and laboratory. Those who depend an an early approach to stoichiometry, gaseous state, equilibrium, and especially acid-base phenomena will find the treatment of these topics to their liking. The reviewer agrees with the authors that a full scale assault on raws. merhnn~rt~li, and thermr.dynnn,icc i i m.1 ntedcC for the intn,durtorv srodrnt to apprrc:ate the basic%o i haie,. F m the 1"S ~ N C ~who O ~ wishes an exotic treatment of eauilibrium. (charm and mass balance. "m~lti"-\imulraneeeu-rqualiun and pcdyho..:~ svqtrme, d l find a morr adwwed a p p n r h
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Reviewed in this Issue Reuiewer Michell J . Sienko and Robert A. Plane, Chemistry: Principles and Applications, 3rd Edition Richard E. Dickerson, Harry B. Gray, and Gilbert P Haight, Jr., Chemical Principles Third Edition Russell S. Drago, General Chemistry Problem Solving I Kendall E. Atkinson, Editor, An Introduction to Numerical Analysis D. Poland, Cooperative Equilibria in Physical Biochemistry. Monographs on Physical Biochemistry. Claude E. Wintrier, Strands of Organic Chemistry John D. Baldeschwieler, Editor, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in the People's Republic of China P. Dauidouits and D. L. McFadden, Editors, Alkali Halide Vapors: Structure, Spectra and Reaction Dynamics Ian J . Tinsley, Chemical Concepts in Pollutant Behavior George I. Saekheim and Ronald M. Sehultr, Chemistry for the Health Sciences, Third Edition Robert C. Belloli, Comtemporary Physieal Science: Our Impact on Our World
Carl D. Slater Robert C. Brasted Wayne P. Anderson David A. Mieha C. Russell Middaugh Alan C. Wright K. L. Cheng David A. Case Myron L. Corrin Charles M. Wynn, Sr. Robert J. Whitaker Volume 57, Number 4, April 1980 I A141
