Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change

by Martin Silberberg

With each edition, The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change by Martin Silberberg is becoming a favorite among faculty and students. Silberberg’s 3rd edition contains features that make it the most comprehensive and relevant text for any student enrolled in General Chemistry. The text contains unprecedented macroscopic to microscopic molecular illustrations, consistent step-by-step worked exercises in every chapter, an extensive range of end-of-chapter problems which provide engaging applications covering a wide variety of freshman interests, including engineering, medicine, materials, and environmental studies. All of these qualities make The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change the centerpiece for any General Chemistry course.

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

1200 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 1 out of 5]

The online version is absolutely horrible to use a lady pops up every 5 mins and yells at you, you can't scroll out, the scoll is hyperspeed when you try to scroll down, not compatible with surface pro. I get it you are scared of people taking screen shots but please make an interface where the textbook is actually readable.

[Jar · Rating 1 out of 5]

Disgusting book waste of money and space

[Rose · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a chemistry book, what could there be to say?

While I found it hard to focus too long on the content, it 50/50 between the subject matter and how it was presented in the book. At times, I found it somewhat interesting, but that was mostly due to content and not the writing.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "It's a textbook, bestselling novel." However, as one who enjoys non-fiction often more than fiction, I can tell you science, history, math, etc. don't have to be boring. In fact, it's often riveting and I wonder how much effort they put in to make it dull as dirt.

On the other hand, I used this text for two consecutive courses in one summer - 24 chapters in two months, and as the poor professor struggled to get through everything in record breaking speed, I discovered without the information gleaned from reading the chapters in advance, I would have been hopelessly lost. So while dully written, it is informative.

[Joan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yes, 5 stars to the book that helped me raise my Chemistry grade a notch higher! :)) I definitely recommend this to students studying Chemistry, esp.those who need to comprehend it thoroughly. Silberberg won't let you down, I tell you! :D :))

[Christina · Rating 5 out of 5]

My one and only favorite college textbook. I spent many hours with this book.

[Afif Asyraf · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tebal
Complicated
but
very useful
manyak info maaa...

[Jess]

This book blows

[Niv · Rating 5 out of 5]

best book for general chemistry

[Em · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a textbook, this is fine. The diagrams and illustrations are helpful.

Aleks, the McGraw Hill program that the homework for this textbook is on, is seriously the worst platform for online homework I have ever experienced in my life. Aleks is unable to recognize how many significant figures are in numbers ending in "0", such as 10, 100, 1000, etc... so you can expect to get any questions for which you have to do math and get one of those as your answer wrong. In some cases, ending the number with a period can help, but not always. Aleks also sometimes marks answers incorrect if they are in scientific notation, even though it recommends that you use scientific notation on pretty much every question. Aleks also has a lot of questions that are 3+ parts and you will get a zero on those questions even if you get only one of three or one of five parts wrong, even if what you got wrong was that your answer ended with a zero, or was in scientific notation, or maybe that you spelled cesium without the letter a in it. I seriously hated this program so badly that I had to get up and walk laps between questions.

[~ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good textbook. It's usually marketed as a college-level text but it's more appropriate for the high school level. The author's really at pains to simplify all the math to the below the high school level. Sometimes this drags the examples out and involves unnecessary steps (e.g. converting all probabilities from the 0 to 1 scale to percentages). So you'll have to look elsewhere for any depth or rigor, but this is a good overview of basic concepts for anyone who's completely forgotten or unfamiliar with basic chem.

[Derek Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the 3rd Canadian edition of this textbook as an undergraduate student. As far as science textbooks go, I thought this one was pretty palatable. The examples were instructive, and the explanations were sufficient to solve the problem sets, unlike some textbooks (cough, cough, math) which don't give the reader enough training to set them up for success. Should you read this chemistry textbook for leisure? probably not. But you'll definitely walk away having learned a lot if you do!

[First Name · Rating 2 out of 5]

Che brutto libro, e dire che è così popolare anche tra le cattedre.
Le informazioni sono organizzate male, è prolisso e alcune definizioni sono imprecise se non persino circolari.
Nota positiva sugli esempi visivi.

[Amg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Of course, I'll never be finished with this book.

[Mohammed Elshaer · Rating 5 out of 5]

wow! i can't describe it in words it is the most intuitive book i have ever read . nothing the author skip ,every topic is explained in much ( beautiful ) details..

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

very informative but a little dense. very comfortable to use as a pillow at the library though.

[Akshay Seetharam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid explanations and problems, could use better figures though

[Aryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

من ترجمه دکتر مجید میرصادقی رو خوندم
عالیه تا وسط کتاب مشکلی نداشتم اما از وسط به بعد واقعا خیلی پیچیده شد

[Kayla · Rating 4 out of 5]

I used this textbook for the chapter problems and answered that were in the back of the book. I started out reading the chapters but soon realized that it was pointless and that everything I needed to know was covered and explained much better in lecture. It was still a good reference for electronegativity, polyatomic ions, acids and bases, geometry, and definitions. Many of the questions were worded weird but once I understood what was being asked it was pretty easy to figure out.

I also did 10 of the online Connect homeworkers more extra credit. A few of the questions were much more detailed than what was covered in class and drawing Lewis structures was impossible for chapter 10.

Used for chemistry 1410 and 1420 fall 2014 and spring 2015

[Adam Ward · Rating 2 out of 5]

The authors spend so much time trying to provide "cool" and "interesting" examples that the concepts you need to learn often get lost in these mediocre attempts to appeal to students. You reach the end of a section and say "Wait, what was the main point again?" I used this textbook for a two-semester "College Chemistry" course sequence, but by the time I got a few weeks into the second semester I realized I could do MUCH better on the exams by ditching the textbook altogether and simply reading the study notes for each chapter -- which were literally just the main concepts cut-and-pasted directly from the textbook, with all the extra crap cut out.

[عبدالرحمن · Rating 3 out of 5]

قرأت هذا الكتاب كمرجع للكيمياء, كان جميلاً وواضحاً في فصول الخصائص الكيميائية والتفاعلات أيضاً في الكيمياء النووية. ولكن عندما بدأت قراءة فصول الكيمياء العضوية والكيمياء الحيوية بدأ النظري يزداد والعمل يقل وهنا بدأ إعجابي به يقل. هذه الفصول تحتم على الكاتب أن يسهب بالنظري لطبيعتها النظرية ولكن أرى أنه بالغ في ذلك.

[Viet · Rating 4 out of 5]

good

[Cathy Wood · Rating 3 out of 5]

For General Chemistry I and II courses

[Julie Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned many lessons :) awesome!

[Hasith]

good