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Quanta, Matter, and Change
A molecular approach to physical chemistry
Peter Atkins, Julio de Paula, and Ronald Friedman
816 pages
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1000 colour line illustrations
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276x219mm
978-0-19-920606-3
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Paperback
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13 November 2008
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- A refreshing new insight into physical chemistry.
- The quantum-first view takes fundamentally new approaches to even familiar material.
- The authors' lucid writing style, coupled with hundreds of full-colour, custom-drawn illustrations, present even the most challenging concepts in a clear, digestible way.
- A carefully-developed pedagogical framework, including worked examples, self-tests, notes on good practice, and Justifications, pervades the book to facilitate a full understanding of the subject.
- Extensive mathematical support, including Mathematical Background sections, overcomes any barrier to understanding that grasping the mathematical content might present.
- Complemented by a suite of support resources, including an Online Resource Centre, and Instructor's and Student's Solutions Manuals.
From its formative days spent exploring the bulk properties of matter, physical chemistry as a discipline is now being reinvigorated by our ever-increasing understanding of the properties of matter at the molecular level.
Quanta, Matter, and Change unravels a traditional course in physical chemistry and recasts it from this new molecular perspective. It provides the foundation for students to explore the subject from this new, intellectually engaging angle.
Beginning with quantum theory, the book establishes the link with the
macroscopic world by introducing statistical thermodynamics, before showing how thermodynamics is used to describe the bulk properties of matter. Reformulating familiar concepts in new ways, the book also explores the latest practical tools, the most significant among them being computational chemistry.
The attention to educational value has always been a hallmark of Peter Atkins' texts, and nowhere more so than in Quanta, Matter, and Change. All aspects of the learning process are fully supported, including the understanding of terminology, notation, mathematical concepts, and the application of physical chemistry to other branches of science.
Building on the heritage of the world-renowned Atkins' Physical Chemistry, Quanta, Matter, and
Change gives a refreshing new insight into the familiar by illuminating physical chemistry from a new direction.
Online Resource Centre
The Online Resource Centre features:
For registered adopters of the book:
· Figures and tables of data from the book, ready to download.
For students:
· Living Graphs, to explore how a property changes as a variety of parameters are changed.
· Web links to a range of additional physical chemistry resources on the web.
· Group theory tables, available for downloading.Readership: Undergraduates at all stages of their Bachelors and Masters
chemistry degree programmes. Also a valuable reference for postgraduates and researchers.
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Peter Atkins, Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford, Julio de Paula, Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Lewis & Clark College, and Ronald Friedman, Professor and Chair of Chemistry Department, Indiana University, Perdue University Fort Wayne
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"This is a splendid book. The authors do a fine job of presenting the subjects in a connected, logical way...the authors have done a wonderful job and produced a text which will be a delight to teach from. I cannot reccommend it too highly." - Chemistry World "This approach to physical chemistry has a great deal to recommend it and this book in turn has a great deal to recommend it as an accompanying text. The authors have done a wonderful job and produced a text it will be a delight to teach from. I cannot recommend it too highly." - Chemistry World, 2009
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Fundamentals
Mathematical background 1: Differentiation and integration
Part 1 Quantum Theory
1: The Principles of Quantum Theory
Mathematical background 2: Differential equations
2: Nanosystems 1: Motion in One Dimension
Mathematical background 3: Complex numbers
3: Nanosystems 2: Motion in Several Dimensions
Part 2 Atoms, molecules, and assemblies
4: Atomic Structure and Spectra
Mathematical background 4: Vectors
5: The Chemical Bond
Mathematical background 5: Matrices
6: Computational Chemistry
7: Molecular Symmetry
8: Molecular Assemblies
9: Solids
Mathematical background 6: Fourier series and Fourier transforms
Part 3 Molecular spectroscopy
10: Rotational and Vibrational Spectra
11: Electronic Spectroscopy
12: Magnetic Resonance
Part 4 Molecular thermodynamics
13: The Boltzmann Distribution
Mathematical background 7: Probability Theory
14: The First Law of Thermodynamics
Mathematical background 8: Multivariate calculus
15: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
16: Physical Equilibria
17: Chemical Equilibrium
Part 5 Chemical dynamics
18: Molecular Motion
19: Chemical Kinetics
20: Molecular Reaction Dynamics
21: Catalysis
Resource Section
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