This book provides thorough coverage of physical chemistry. It demonstrates the power and limits of thermodynamics with a more systematic treatment of the second law and more focus on entropy. It also covers current topics in physical chemistry and shows how physical chemistry relates to daily life. Includes many current applications such as lasers.
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Designed to make the concepts and methods of physical chemistry clear and interesting to students who have had a year of calculus and a year of physics. The basic theory of chemistry is presented from the perspective of academic physical chemists and numerous applications of physical chemistry to practical problems are described. This revised edition contains expanded material on thermodynamics of biochemical reactions, pulse techniques in nuclear magnetic resonance and the statistical mechanical treatment of chemical equilibrium, as well as scores of fresh problems and additional worked-out examples. A new feature of this edition is the insertion of brief Comments sections to emphasize important ideas.
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It is not the healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick. Likewise, it is not those who already understand the problem that need the solutions manual, but those who are utterly confused. Unfortunately, the solutions manual is written for those who already have an idea of how to solve the problem. The solutions are not explained in enough detail to truly walk one through a problem.Usually, I start a problem by writing down the appropriate equations, converting everything to the right units, etc. However, the solutions manual starts a problem with the final equation you will need to solve it, often with the variables already plugged in. This does nothing to help; I have to spend a good deal of time going back to the book to find out where the equations came from. The manual would be much more helpful if it identified the equation that needed to be used to solve a problem (even if it just gave the equation number from the book) and then connected each variable with its specific numerical value in the problem. Unfortunately, more times than not, I am just left confused by the solutions manual. One could argue that working the problems in more detail would dumb things down and needlessly insult the students' intelligence - but see the opening quote! When I go to the solutions manual, I need to have every step that I need to work the problem spelled out for me. A final complaint is that the manual is typeset poorly. This is most evident in the parentheses and brackets - often a single-line parenthesis or bracket is simply scaled up to encompass multiple lines, which looks weird and out of proportion. Additionally the terms in equations are often spaced weird, and exponents are no smaller than coefficients. Overall it is obvious that the equations were typeset in text mode, not equation mode, and the manual looks significantly worse than the textbook as a result. I would rather the authors err on the side of explaining the problems in too much detail instead of too little. Unfortunately they have done just the opposite. It may all seem so easy to someone who has seen this material before, but the manual is not written at a basic enough level for those who are going through the material for the first time.
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molecular electronic structure, spectroscopic dissociation energy, molecular partition function, mean ionic activity coefficients, rotor approximation, equilibrium extent, reversible isothermal expansion, standard state pressure, fundamental vibration frequency, ideal monatomic gas, monatomic ideal gas, jointed chain, hydrogen molecule ion, equilibrium mole fractions, molar entropy, stoichiometric numbers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Phase Equilibrium, Chemical Equilibrium, Statistical Mechanics, Atomic Structure, Liquid Phase, Fundamental Equations of Thermodynamics, Quantum Theory, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Thermodynamics of Biochemical Reactions, First Law of Thermodynamics, Experimental Kinetics, Kinetic Theory of Gases, Electronic Spectroscopy of Molecules, Computer Problem, Solid-State Chemistry, New York, Surface Dynamics, Solutions Manual, Plot the Morse, Cambridge University Press, Fourth Edition Browse Sample Pages:
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molecular electronic structure, spectroscopic dissociation energy, molecular partition function, mean ionic activity coefficients, rotor approximation, equilibrium extent, reversible isothermal expansion, standard state pressure, fundamental vibration frequency, ideal monatomic gas, monatomic ideal gas, jointed chain, hydrogen molecule ion, equilibrium mole fractions, molar entropy, stoichiometric numbers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Phase Equilibrium, Chemical Equilibrium, Statistical Mechanics, Atomic Structure, Liquid Phase, Fundamental Equations of Thermodynamics, Quantum Theory, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Thermodynamics of Biochemical Reactions, First Law of Thermodynamics, Experimental Kinetics, Kinetic Theory of Gases, Electronic Spectroscopy of Molecules, Computer Problem, Solid-State Chemistry, New York, Surface Dynamics, Solutions Manual, Plot the Morse, Cambridge University Press, Fourth Edition Browse Sample Pages:
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