Schaum's Easy Outlines of College Chemistry, Second Edition

Schaum's Outline

by Jerome L. Rosenberg, Lawrence M. Epstein, Peter Krieger

When you need just the essentials of college chemistry, this Easy Outlines book is there to help

If you are looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview of college chemistry, it's got to be Schaum's Easy Outline. This book is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its Schaum's Outline cousin, with an emphasis on clarity and conciseness.

Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give you quick pointers to the essentials. Perfect if you have missed class or need extra review Gives you expert help from teachers who are authorities in their fields So small and light that it fits in your backpack!

Topics include: Quantities and Units, Moles and Empirical Formula, Calculations based on Chemical Equations, Concentration and Solution Stoichiometry, The Ideal Gas Law and Kinetic Theory, Thermochemistry, Atomic Structure, Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure, Solids and Liquids, Oxidation-Reduction, Properties of Solutions, Thermodynamics and Chemical Equilibrium, Acids and Bases, Precipitates, Electrochemistry, Rates of Reactions

Genres: Science, Chemistry, Reference, Textbooks

160 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1966

Reviews

[José Luís Fernandes · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.

[Brooke · Rating 4 out of 5]

PV=nRT

[Maya · Rating 4 out of 5]

What can say it is Schaum's series!