Reviews for Modeling of Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design

The average rating for Modeling of Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-11-23 00:00:00 Dan Dano Actually, I guess I didn't really read this book all the way through, but I read enough to learn it's totally lacking. My goal is to learn more about the history of science, so I picked this book up at the library in the school in which I teach. It's more like an encyclopedia, but still I figured it was a decent starting place for my personal learning goal. Except... ...well, when looking at the biography section, Bohr isn't even mentioned, and Rutherford is practically a footnote. Oh, and I'm not even kidding when I say that Einstein isn't mentioned in the biography section either. Now, obviously if my goal is to learn more about science history then I'm not an expert in the field. But I do know enough to understand that this book has no true scope. I'm going to try elsewhere.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-06-09 00:00:00 Jeff Villegas 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.)