Information About LMS the Physical Chemistry Ebook

Physical Chemistry by Laidler, Meiser and Sanctuary

Who do we wish to reach?

Although LMS has been used for the last decade as an eBook for university courses in the West, it is easily distributed to places wherever there is the Internet. MCH works with educational and governmental institutions to bring learning to remote and underdeveloped places. Only through education can a society evolve, and we hope we can help. Please Contact us.

With today’s technology, the distribution of digital material is fast and routine. We can provide the eBook to one student, or hundreds of thousands. For large distributions, MCH would negotiate significant discounts so the cost of an up-to-date and electronically delivered eBook would be no more expensive than the usual hard copy knockoffs that students currently must purchase in the developing world. We are happy to discuss the options available, please contact us.

It is our ardent objective to help the developing countries bring first-class educational material to students who once given the chance, will eagerly learn and bring value, benefit, and prosperity to their society.

Why use Laidler, Meiser and Sanctuary?

The Content

The eBook, Physical Chemistry by Laidler, Meiser and Sanctuary covers the essential topics of physical chemistry in a clear and logical way. Once students have covered basic introductory courses in chemistry, physics and mathematics, LMS carries on presenting some of the most challenging concepts in science, such as energy and entropy in thermodynamics, the treatment of chemical reactions, microscopic processes, quantum, spectroscopy etc. LMS covers all the macroscopic and microscopic aspects of physical chemistry and forms a valuable basis upon which other disciplines rely.

The authors: Keith Laidler, of the University of Ottawa, has an international reputation as a leader in Chemical Kinetics. His chapters contain the essentials of this subject in a clear and thorough way. John Meiser, of Ball State University, wrote the chapters on thermodynamics. Bryan Sanctuary, of McGill University, developed the chapters on Quantum theory, spectroscopy, statistical mechanics, and transport properties.

Learning physical chemistry requires that the students solve challenging and informative problems. These are found at the chapters on thermodynamics.

The solution manual

The eBook has an excellent Solution Manual which has been thoroughly vetted for the most popular chapters. This essentially error-free eBook is an invaluable resource for students and teachers. The solutions to the text’s problems were solved by undergraduate students. These students were instructed to explain the solutions in their own words. This example of PEER learning helps students understand the conceptual challenges of Physical Chemistry.

Multimedia Snippets (PC only)

Developed by MCH multimedia, about 100 interactive multimedia snippets were developed. These allow the student to study phenomena, like changing pressure, temperature, and volume. See the effects of changing parameters plots. Learn about sig figs, standard deviation, and many more. These are available free from our eBook shop.

Although these programs ran on Mac computers in the past, later Mac OS upgrades did not support these and they were dropped. All are .exe files and run on WIN PCs or on Mac computers with Windows emulators.

Support Portal

In addition, there is a free resource available at our support portal. Here students and teachers alike will find useful and more in-depth discussions of some topics on Physical Chemistry and provides study tips for eager students.

Compatible devices

The eBooks are an integrated and linked set of pdf files that are copy protected by StarForce and the eBooks are opened in their proprietary reader. Once purchased and a serial number received, the student installs the StarForce reader which launches the eBook.

The eBook is compatible with all popular devices including Mac computers, iPads iPhones, Windows PC, Android tablets and Android phones.

Secure on-line ordering

The Authors, and owners of the Copyright, granted MCH the sole right to publish Laidler, Meiser and Sanctuary. The eBook versions are available only from this site. All transactions are done outside our on-line shop by eCommerce providers on secure servers. MCH retains no credit card data.

Individual student versus Institutional versions

Individual and institutional copies are the same. The eBook version of LMS converted all the material found in the hard copy book. In addition, multimedia snippets allow students to interact with and visualize the concepts they are confronted with. These are free on this site.

Software License

Once the eBook is installed on a device, it remains there indefinitely on the same OS. After crashes and problems beyond the control of MCH, the eBooks may require reactivation. MCH will provide a new license on proof of previous purchase (we will have the record for you) and a small fee to cover licensing costs.

Software upgrades

Customers will be notified when upgrades are available. These can be downloaded and will be applied seamlessly without the need for reactivation.

The Authors

Keith J. Laidler

John H. Meiser

Bryan C. Sanctuary

MCH Multimedia Inc. (1995)

MCH Multimedia

History of MCH

Teaching physical chemistry to large classes presents special challenges. One challenge is to motivate students into learning some of the most difficult concepts they will encounter. Entropy, Energy, rates of chemical reactions and macroscopic properties on the one hand, and quantum mechanics, bonding, and spectroscopy on the other microscopic hand can be overwhelming. In response to this, Professor Sanctuary started in the early 1990s to use the nascent technology of computer simulations to help students visualize these ideas. His first was a treatment of Blackbody Radiation.

Recognizing the value of having students interact with computers as a means of learning led to him forming MCH Multimedia Inc in 1995. Using this vehicle, he could avail himself to R&D incentives and summer studentships. Over the next few years, MCH developed 5 eBook: High School Physics and Chemistry; University Physics and Chemistry, and Organic chemistry.

In 2002 MCH was contracted to produce the multimedia component for the textbook he jointly authored with Laidler and Meiser. There are about 100 snippets of interactive programs that focus on students and give them more depth. For these MCH received the prestigious Eddie Award for best multimedia and the post-secondary level. These snippets are now all free from this site.

In 2010, upon the death of Laidler, the hard copy text was discontinued and the copyright fell to the authors. MCH changed the hard copy book into a pdf. At the same time a solution manual was developed. Over the next few years, in use, typographical and other errors were easily corrected. This is one of the many advantages of eBooks over hard copy.

As a pioneer in educational multimedia and distance learning, the current objective is to make the textbook available to as many students as possible, and in particular to the developing world. Now, thanks to the Internet, we can deliver efficiently and at a low cost.

Multimedia Products

This site is dedicated to the promotion and distribution of Physical Chemistry by Laidler, Meiser, and Sanctuary, along with the Solution Manual.

The other material available on this site is all free: the Multimedia Snippets and the earlier eBooks, now also free.

Authors who wish to sell their own eBooks on this MCH can contact us,

Awards

The Multimedia Snippets won the Eddie award in 2003 for the best post-secondary multimedia material

About LMS

Physical Chemistry by Laidler, Meiser and Sanctuary

The Authors

MCH Multimedia Inc. (1995)

MCH Multimedia

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