Reviews for Recent Developments and Applications of Modern Density Functional Theory

The average rating for Recent Developments and Applications of Modern Density Functional Theory based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-07-27 00:00:00 Dina Richard To be honest I didn't read every single page, but I read and re-read enough of the text over the course of a semester to definitively say this book is pretty good. Concepts are explained simply enough, but the book overall loses major points for numerous (too numerous!) incorrect answers in the answer key. As in any math or science textbook there are concepts that are hard enough to understand to begin with, but working 20 minutes to get an answer that is not the answer in the book, only to later learn it IS the right answer, is really the shits. Makes you learn everything thoroughly but not always in the best way.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-11-05 00:00:00 Heather Nash This review is for Principles of Modern Chemistry, 6th ed. by Oxtoby, Campion & Gillis. (A webpage for this edition does not exist - although, incidentally, one for the solution manual does.) This book presents itself as a general chemistry text - which it is, for the most part - but not one I would recommend to someone who is learning chemistry for the first time. In fact, I would only recommend this text to someone who is specifically interested in physical chemistry and developing the foundation to learn more. The first third of the book, for instance, is a moderately difficult, yet somewhat superficial, introduction to quantum mechanics. The chapters progress in a microscopic-to-macroscopic format, an understandable strategy, but one that runs the risk of intimidating readers with highly inelegant math and counterintuitive concepts. (The latter chapters are much easier.) I also felt this book was a tad verbose. The page dimensions are not small, the font is not large, and it still takes 900 pages to explain chemistry - which may seem like a standard length to some, but, I assure you, it could have been more concise. (Compare to Griffith's vastly more thorough introduction to QM in 400 pages.)