Principles of Instrumental Analysis

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The book is jewel for chemist knowledge in junior or senior level. The best feature is that it provides a practical approach to understand the instruments foundamental behavior. Which is helpful for analytical chemist profession.

I'm not sure why there are so many negative reviews of this book. I found it to be very solid when I used the 3rd edition. For those of you who don't like it you have 4 options: 1. "Instrumental Methods of Analysis" by Willard, Merritt, Dean, Settle; (ISBN 0534081428) which is excellent and a true classic. It's OOP now but a new edition comes out in 2011. 2. "Chemical Analysis: Modern Instrumentation Methods and Techniques" by Francis Rouessac & Annick Rouessac 3. "Undergraduate Instrumental Analysis" Sixth Edition by James W. Robinson, Eileen M. Skelly Frame, George M. Frame II 4. "Chemical Instrumentation: A Systematic Approach" by Strobel and Heineman. This book is very hardware oriented and not a true general instrumental analysis text. I'd also recommend that you buy "Statistics and Chemometrics for Analytical Chemistry" by James N. Miller & Jane C. Miller. It does a much better job than the cursory chapters found in regular analytical texts. Get the 4th or 5th edition. For a paperback, this book is ridiculously expensive if you buy new. Try to find a used copy. While the book by Miller & Miller is good, it's no substitute for a 1 or 2 semester course in stats. A good book for this material might be Statistics for Research, Third Edition by Shirley Dowdy, Stanley Wearden, Daniel Chilko (ISBN 047126735X) Check out my other reviews for other undergrad. chem books. I notice one of the co-authors (Crouch) has added his comments. He says "This book remains the leader in the field." - not difficult when there are so few competitors!

I'm not sure why there are so many negative reviews of this book. I found it to be very solid. For those of you who don't like it you have 3 options: either "Instrumental Methods of Analysis" by Willard, Merritt, Dean, Settle; (ISBN 0534081428) which is excellent and a true classic. It might be OOP now. or "Chemical Analysis: Modern Instrumentation Methods and Techniques" by Francis Rouessac & Annick Rouessac or "Chemical Instrumentation: A Systematic Approach" by Strobel and Heineman. This book, however, is very hardware oriented and not a general instrumental analysis text. I would also recommend that you buy "Statistics and Chemometrics for Analytical Chemistry" by James N. Miller & Jane C. Miller. It does a much better job than the cursory chapters found in regular analytical texts. Get the 4th or 5th edition. For a paperback, this book is ridiculously expensive if you buy new. Try to find a used copy. While the book by Miller & Miller is good, it's no substitute for a 1 or 2 semester course in stats. A good book for this material might be Statistics for Research, Third Edition by Shirley Dowdy, Stanley Wearden, Daniel Chilko (ISBN 047126735X) Check out my other reviews for other undergrad. chem books. I notice one of the co-authors (Crouch) has added his comments. He says "This book remains the leader in the field." - not difficult when there are so few competitors!

I am an undergrad senior majoring in math and chemistry. I noticed a majority of the reviews seemed to be somewhat negative, so I thought I would weigh in. I have found this text to be a real asset. I have used it for a one credit lab in instrumental analysis and really love the attention given to the mathematical representations of the concepts. I don't really plan on working in a lab setting, and I find the text gives a great overview of a lot of instrumentation. Very easy to read and follow. Well worth the money to have it on the bookshelf.