ABSTRACT

At a time when U.S. high school students are producing low scores in mathematics and science on international examinations, a thorough grounding in physical chemistry should not be considered optional for science undergraduates. Based on the author's thirty years of teaching, Essentials of Physical Chemistry merges coverage of calculus with chemist

chapter 1|24 pages

Ideal and Real Gas Behavior

chapter 2|12 pages

Viscosity of Laminar Flow

chapter 3|16 pages

The Kinetic Molecular Theory of Gases

chapter 4|28 pages

The First Law of Thermodynamics

chapter 6|30 pages

Gibbs’ Free Energy and Equilibria

chapter 7|22 pages

Basic Chemical Kinetics

chapter 8|26 pages

More Kinetics and Some Mechanisms

chapter 9|32 pages

Basic Spectroscopy

chapter 10|20 pages

Early Experiments in Quantum Physics

chapter 11|20 pages

The Schrödinger Wave Equation

chapter 13|30 pages

7 Introduction

chapter 14|24 pages

The Schrödinger Hydrogen Atom

chapter 15|14 pages

Quantum Thermodynamics

chapter 16|22 pages

5 Introduction

chapter 17|36 pages

Electronic Structure of Molecules

chapter 19|26 pages

Essentials of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance