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Other than a longer delivery period than expected, I am very satisfied. The used Chemistry text we ordered was in excellent condition.
Unfortunately, the school would not allow student use of the teachers edition so I ended up having to purchase the student version. The book was in great condition and arrived more quickly than I expected.
I noticed that it's not very straightforward. Rather, it provides you with assessment questions at the end of each section with direct questions about number changes, making it so that you would have to figure out from the extensive number of examples what the answer is.
I recommend something that is more concise and straightforward: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chemistry, 2nd Edition (Complete Idiot's Guide to). This textbook's method of teaching is making the reader infer, which is great for literature, but certainly not for textbooks.
This book is a good study aid if you have a good instructor. The text itself won't tell you exactly how the mass or atomic number changes after a certain radioactive decay.
What takes 3 pages to explain in the textbook is explained in 3 paragraphs in this guide. However, depending on this book to teach you chemistry may become a little confusing (as my high school teacher is currently doing).
Say you were learning about radiation - the types of radiation and how decay occurs.
Buy with confidence, I did. I would recommend this seller to anyone interested in purchasing good quality books at extremely reasonable prices. I'm usually concerned about purchasing items on line, especially books. I can honestly say that this experience was worth it.
No difficult and tricky questions whatsoever.Honestly, no clue why high schools use this text so much. Not enough application problems. The end of section review Qs only ask for definitions and explanations, no real chemistry. Good thing my teacher was so good because this book is terrible.The explanations are lacking in important areas and overdone in others. Pretty sad if this is the best there is. We only did 15 chapters, but this book didn't help at all. It spends like 2 pages on VSEPR theory, incomplete activity series and solubility rules, and terrible intro in stoichiometry. I didn't even read half of it because the problems offer no challenge whatsoever.
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