Description
Author: Peter Atkins & Julio De Paula
ISBN: 9780198796350
Publication date: 21/07/2017
Pages: 656 pages / 265.0×195.0mm
The ideal course companion, Elements of Physical Chemistry is written specifically with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, and provides extensive mathematical and pedagogical support while remaining concise and accessible.
The International Edition organizes the material into short Topics, which are grouped into thematic Focuses to make the text digestible for students, and flexible for lecturers to teach from. At the beginning of each Topic, three questions are posed, emphasizing why it is important, what the key idea is, and what the student should already know.
Table of contents
1. The properties of gases
2. Thermodynamics: the First Law
3. Thermodynamics: the Second Law
4. Physical change
5. Chemical change
6. The rates of reactions
7. Quantum theory
8. The structure of atoms
9. The structure of molecules
10. Molecular interactions
11. Macromolecules and aggregates
12. Solids
13. Molecular spectroscopy
14. Magnetic resonance
15. Statistical thermodynamics