V K Jaiswal Inorganic Chemistry [hot] -

Arjun stares at the wall for an hour. He scribbles. He erases. He cries a little. He finally checks the hint in the back: "Think about exchange energy and pairing energy in the p-orbitals."

And if you haven't cried over Problem 3.89 on Crystal Field Theory at least once, you haven't truly prepared. v k jaiswal inorganic chemistry

One evening, after a particularly disastrous test, a student named Ravi stayed behind. "Sir," Ravi mumbled, "I understand your lecture. I can recite the periodic trends. But when I see a problem... a coordination compound with a twist... I freeze. There is no bridge between the theory and the problem." Arjun stares at the wall for an hour