Reviews for Schaum's outline of theory and problems of general, organic, and biological chemistry

The average rating for Schaum's outline of theory and problems of general, organic, and biological chemistry based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-12-03 00:00:00 Julia Spafford This is a quick survey of several topics of Chemistry - with high school and University content. Although I'm not the fan of the tone of the cover, I gave it a try as part of my study for my Chemistry and Physics final as I saw it resting in my school's library. I made a few revisions through here while learning a few things, but this book is badly organized (I think chapters are a bit misplaced like chapters 7 and 15). There are a few mistakes like claiming a strong base is ionized in the presence of water when actually it's dissociated, which means that the chemical bond that forms the ionic compound (in this case, as we can also talk about dissociation of molecules) is broken. For instance, in NaOH (sodium hydroxide) the ionic bond between the Na+ ion and the hidroxide (HO-) is broken in the presence and that very strong base is dissociated into its two composing ions. The titration curves are also a bit problematic to say the least since there's a kind of small zig zag around the point of equivalence (in the transition zone) and that can't happen. I'm quite sure the graphics are wrong because I used a ruler to see if there were two assigned pH values to a single value of added volume (a simple geometric way of seeing whether a graph can be described mathemmatically by a function). Although it was slight, it was enough for my eyes to spot it.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-04-07 00:00:00 James Habinka What can say it is Schaum's series!