Description

The Chemistry Maths Book provides a complete course companion suitable for students at all levels. All the most useful and important topics are covered, with numerous examples of applications in chemistry and the physical sciences.

Taking a clear, straightforward approach, the book develops ideas in a logical, coherent way, allowing students progressively to build a thorough working understanding of the subject.

Topics are organized into three parts: algebra, calculus, differential equations, and expansions in series; vectors, determinants and matrices; and numerical analysis and statistics. The extensive use of examples illustrates every important concept and method in the text, and are used to demonstrate applications of the mathematics in chemistry and several basic concepts in physics. The exercises at the end of each chapter, are an essential element of the development of the subject, and have been designed to give students a working understanding of the material in the text.


Online Resource Centre:
The Online Resource Centre features the following resources for registered adopters of the text:
- Figures from the book in electronic format, ready to download
- Full worked solutions to all end of chapter exercises

Features

• Offers broad coverage that captures all the key mathematical concepts and theories with which a chemist should be familiar, making it the ideal reference
• The author's unfussy approach lets the subject speak for itself, using a combination of straightforward explanations and reinforcing examples.
• The much-praised lucid writing style leads the student through even the most challenging topics in a steady, engaging way.
• Features an extensive range of worked examples that demonstrate every important concept and method in the text, to help the student grasp the material being presented.
• Includes end-of-chapter exercises that encourage the student to learn through hands-on practice.
• Online Resource Centre features additional resources for registered adopters of the text, to facilitate its use in teaching.

Product Details

576 pages; 294 figs.; ISBN13: 978-0-19-920535-6ISBN10: 0-19-920535-3

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