Physical chemistry : : how chemistry works / / Kurt W. Kolasinski.

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Place / Publishing House:Chichester, West Sussex : : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (749 pages) :; color illustrations
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Statistical mechanics
  • Ideal gases
  • Non-ideal gases and intermolecular interactions
  • Liquids, liquid crystals, and ionic liquids
  • Solids, nanoparticles, and interfaces
  • First law of thermodynamics
  • Second law of thermodynamics
  • Third law of thermodynamics and temperature dependence of heat capacity, enthalpy, and entropy
  • Thermochemistry : the role of heat in chemical and physical changes
  • Chemical equilibrium
  • Phase stability and phase transitions
  • Solutions and mixtures : nonelectrolytes
  • Solutions of electrolytes
  • Electrochemistry : the chemistry of free charge exchange
  • Empirical chemical kinetics
  • Reaction dynamics : mechanisms and rates
  • Complex reactions mechanisms : catalysis, photochemistry and charge transfer
  • Developing quantum mechanical intuition
  • The quantum mechanical description of nature
  • Model quantum systems
  • Atomic structure
  • Introduction to spectroscopy and atomic spectroscopy
  • Molecular bonding and structure
  • Molecular spectroscopy & excited state dynamics : diatomics
  • Polyatomic molecules and group theory
  • Light-matter interactions : lasers, laser spectroscopy, and photodynamics.