This is the third edition of a well-established and highly successful undergraduate text. The content of the second edition has been reworked and added to wherever necessary. There are new sections on amorphous solids and liquid crystals, and completely new chapters on colloids and polymers. Using elementary mathematics and simple models, Professor Tabor leads the reader skillfully and systematically from the basic physics of interatomic and intermolecular forces, temperature, heat and thermodynamics, to a coherent understanding of the bulk properties of gases, liquids, solids, liquid crystals, colloids, and polymers. The abiding theme is that all these macroscopic material properties can be understood as the result of the competition between thermal energy and intermolecular or interatomic forces.
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"...well-written text in physical chemistry...will reward undergraduate science majors who wish to improve their insight into the nature of matter....Where it excels is in its demand for intellectual maturity, even though the level of mathematics never extends past first-year calculus." M.B. Snyder, Choice
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Excellent reference for thermodynamics and kinetics,
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This review is from: Gases, Liquids and Solids: And Other States of Matter (Paperback)
Very clear explanations and derivations of subjects such as Boltzmann distributions, critial points, thermal expansion, viscosity, etc. The maths isn't too hard, either!
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This review is from: Gases, Liquids and Solids: And Other States of Matter (Paperback)
Tabor examines the forces between atoms, and how their balance adds up to the world as we know it.
He uses math to clarify, which though strict, does not hinder him in keeping the story fascinating.
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Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Matter is not a continuum of uniform density, but consists of discrete particles or, if one wishes to be more up to date, of localized regions of very high density separated by regions of almost zero density. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Mechanical Properties of Matter by Alan Howard Cottrell on page 225, and page 255
- Intermolecular and Surface Forces, Second Edition: With Applications to Colloidal and Biological Systems (Colloid Science) by Jacob N. Israelachvili on page 21, and page 315
- Theoretical Structural Metallurgy by Sir Alan Cottrell on page 42
- The Physical World of the Greeks by Samuel Sambursky on page 120
- Physical Chemistry by E. A. Moelwyn-Hughes on page 260
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- Theoretical Concepts in Physics: An Alternative View of Theoretical Reasoning in Physics by Malcolm S. Longair on 5 pages
- Physical Chemistry, Second Edition by Robert G. Mortimer on 4 pages
- Introduction to Physical Chemistry by Mark Ladd in Back Matter
- Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World by Steven Vogel in Back Matter
- Microhardness of Polymers (Cambridge Solid State Science Series) by F. J. Baltá Calleja on page 125
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