Chemistry: A Molecular Approach

by Nivaldo J. Tro

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A Molecular Approach , Third Edition is an innovative, pedagogically driven text that explains challenging concepts in a student-oriented manner. Nivaldo Tro creates a rigorous and accessible treatment of general chemistry in the context of relevance and the big picture. Chemistry is presented visually through multi-level images–macroscopic, molecular, and symbolic representations–helping students see the connections between the world they see around them (macroscopic), the atoms and molecules that compose the world (molecular), and the formulas they write down on paper (symbolic). The hallmarks of Dr. Tro’s problem-solving approach are reinforced through interactive media that provide students with an office-hour type of environment built around worked examples and expanded coverage on the latest developments in chemistry. Pioneering features allow students to sketch their ideas through new problems, and much more.

Genres: Chemistry, Science, Textbooks, Reference, Nonfiction, School, Education

1272 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2011

Reviews

[Katherine]

just kill me.

[Amber]

As chemistry textbooks go, this one is crap.
It's for the class I'm teaching this semester, so I constantly have to refer to it.

[Courtney]

I will be damned if I don’t get goodreads credit for these pages that I dragged myself through.

[Carolyn]

Plenty of practice problems, including comprehensive sets. However, Tro fails to include formulae for the majority of calculations. While dimensional analysis facilitates error-free written work, it neglects to teach essential chemical relationships. It is difficult to see the relationship between units and to apply the problem solving approaches presented to novel situations.

[soph]

we are Not Built Different; by God i am so tired

[Nicole Helberg]

I am currently learning with this text book. Or at least I wish I could say that. As a student I feel that the examples that are given and explained step by step are often very easy to solve compared to the practice questions at the end of each chapter. Only half of the practice questions have answers in the back of the textbook with zero explanation of how they reached the end result. This text book has an additional component online that is very helpful however is not cohesive with the textbook. Questions are completely disordered and often times in the wrong chapter. I have absolutely no idea how this became a text book choice for academia. Whomever chose this book to use as a standard in the curriculum has failed students everywhere. I’m beyond disappointed.

[Carlee]

Read chapters 1-10 for Gen Chem 1.

[Hridoy Sarkar]

A well written, crystal clear and concise book for learning general chemistry. This one book is enough for you to master the basic concept of molecular chemistry to organic chemistry.

[Laura]

never again🙏

[Ryan Spicer]

no spice whatsoever

[graziella]

Thank God, I'm done with this class. Now I have to take Gen Chem 2, Org Chem 1, AND Organ Chem 3 😍😍😍😍😍

[Christina]

So far this book is very in-depth. I'm not finished with my Chemistry University course. I'm not done with this book as of yet.

[Tom]

I wish my students had had an easier access to this text. It is very good in bringing the learner along. The explanations are good and probably just fine for the intended audience. The explanations could benefit from a bit more detail - but that is a personal feeling. The text is a touch light on math - but the problem-solving approach is really good. I like the text. It is clean ....and as you may glean from my comments, I tend to want more ... but that detracts from many-a-learner. Hence, I submit to a better mind (the author's) per his intenttions and still use the text and refer it to my students.

[Melissa Kidd]

I almost forgot I had finally finished this book. Thank goodness. I have hard feelings about my chemistry class I took this semester and some of those feelings have slipped into hard feelings for chemistry itself and this book. But that is me. Chemistry is not my forte. It’s not something I like or am good at. However this book did help me understand things that I could not understand from my class lectures or the professor. It was good with explaining the material and showing enough examples. It did what it was meant to.

[Aaron]

I found this book to be excellent for learning the ins and out of general chemistry. I used this book over the course of two semesters. For one semester I used the book alone to learn all the concepts and found it more than up to the task. For the second semester I had the book along with a lecture. The book was useful in helping me in areas where the lecture fell short. I'd highly recommend this to anyone looking to get a grasp on just what chemistry is all about.

[Mira Susa]

The book goes well in depth for what you need for understanding inorganic chemistry. However, because of having to grossly go through the concepts, it makes the ACTUAL reading material hard to interpret. The pictures/graphs/visual demonstrations, especially if you are a visual learner, are awesome, and I would recommend going through them.

[Cody Seal]

After reading other general chemistry texts, I feel this book is slightly elementary in its explanations of certain topics, but I believe it left me with a decent foundation in general chemistry topics after spending a year with it and investing the necessary time.

[Elizabeth]

Read chapters 1-19, 24, and sorta kinda read 20. For class, and always a couple weeks later than I should have been reading it, but definitely the main way I learned the material this year. Pretty well written with plentiful examples and problems.

[Katie]

Excellent chemistry book. Most explanations are good though some get confusing and I was glad to have professors to explain things in other ways. Lots of good problems at the ends of chapters.

[Gretchen]

This is too funny. I didn't think this book would really be listed here. Having never read a chemistry text book before, I guess so far I would give it 4 stars

[Gil]

helped with learning Chem I. we have a different book for chem 2

[Amanda]

Professor Effie Sauer is one of the best profs at UTSC. Good book.

[Bob Week]

served me well

[Robert Leeper]

Work the problems!