Organic Chemistry with Learning by Modeling CD-ROM Review

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(More customer reviews)The Pros: Whew... This coupeled with a great teacher for the course have made Organic Chemistry a little less painfull than it would otherwise be.
An extremely easy read compared to my Chemistry I and II texts, Carey doesn't just spew chemical jargon like so many Chemistry authors tend to do. He provides unique visuals, supporting facts, and side notes that provide usefull information, and occasional real world application stories about the importance of organic chemistry... like in the 60s Dr.s used the wrong enantiomer (certain shape) of a chemical that had a mirror image chemical that should have been used instead... this lead to birth defects in childeren...It takes what your are learning and shows you how this is and has been important.
Another Pro: The student solution manual comes with complete answers and detailed explanations to all questions... a big help when I get stuck on a 'but why'... problem.
The con: The included CD-ROM for Molecular modeling isn't that good. A really hard-to-use program, definately not user friendly, and I'm an advanced pc user. If you have about a month before your Organic class begins, you could probably go through the Chapter summaries at the end of the text, and the programs online help site to figure it out, but once you start Organic I, you're not going to have time to waste figuring this out... I suggest the classic plastic molecular model kits (available here on amazon). The pretince hall ball and stick models seem to be the Chem norm and I like them the best.

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From its first edition through this, its sixth,Organic Chemistry has been designed to meet the needs of the "mainstream," two-semester, undergraduate organic chemistry course. This best-selling text gives students a solid understanding of organic chemistry by stressing how fundamental reaction mechanisms function and how reactions occur. With the addition of handwritten solutions, new cutting-edge molecular illustrations, updated spectroscopy coverage, seamless integration of molecular modeling exercises, and state-of-the-art multimedia tools, the 6th edition of Organic Chemistry clearly offers the most up-to-date approach to the study of organic chemistry.

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Modeling the Dynamics of Life: Calculus and Probability for Life Scientists (with iLrn(TM) Testing) (Available Titles Cengagenow) Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this book as a "do it yourself" introduction to mathematics (for a biologist). It is quite rare to find a textbook as easy and enjoyable to follow as Frederick Adler's book. The text starts with very little assumed knowledge of mathematics and works through the basics of calculus using interesting examples taken from biology. The exercises at the end of each chapter are straightforward and easy to follow (my only complaint about the book is that they only provide solutions to every second question, so working alone it is hard to check your results). It is rare to find a text (especially in maths) that you can truly work through on your own. I recommend it for any Biologist wishing an intorduction to or to expand the knowledge of the growing field of Mathematical Biology.

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Designed to help life sciences students understand the role mathematics has played in breakthroughs in epidemiology, genetics, statistics, physiology, and other biological areas, this text provides students with a thorough grounding in mathematics, the language, and 'the technology of thought' with which these developments are created and controlled. The text teaches the skills of describing a system, translating appropriate aspects into equations, and interpreting the results in terms of the original problem. The text helps unify biology by identifying dynamical principles that underlie a great diversity of biological processes. Standard topics from calculus courses are covered, but with particular emphasis on those areas connected with modeling: discrete-time dynamical systems, differential equations, and probability and statistics.

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