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Article: Physical chemistry: understanding our chemical world.(book review)(Book Review)
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- Chemistry and Industry
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- September 6, 2004
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Physical chemistry: understanding our chemical world
Paul Monk
Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2004
Chemistry relates directly to much of our daily lives and the world around us, and yet we generally fail to take advantage of this in our teaching. This interdisciplinary subject has too often appeared insular, inward-looking and irrelevant--with inevitable negative consequences for all its practitioners, in industry or in academia. It is a particular problem when teaching physical chemistry. Usually with less background in maths than before, undergraduates can be faced by what seems to be nothing more than a daunting list of equations, with lots ...