• Provides a wealth of helpful comments and friendly guidance that can be used to facilitate students' understanding, and to develop problem solving skills.

Readership: Students and instructors using the parent text, Atkins' Physical Chemistry 8e.

Peter Atkins, Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford and Fellow of Lincoln College, Charles Trapp, Professor of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, Marshall Cady, Professor of Chemistry, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, Indiana, USA, and Carmen Giunta, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, USA

Part 1. Equilibrium
1: The properties of gases
2: The first law
3: The second law
4: Physical transformations of pure substances
5: Simple mixtures
6: Phase diagrams
7: Chemical equilibrium
Part 2. Structure
8: Quantum theory: introduction and principles
9: Quantum theory: techniques and applications
10: Atomic structure and atomic spectra
11: Molecular structure
12: Molecular symmetry
13: Spectroscopy 1: rotational and vibrational spectra
14: Spectroscopy 2: electronic transitions
15: Spectroscopy 3: magnetic resonance
16: Statistical thermodynamics: the concepts
17: Statistical thermodynamics: the machinery
18: Molecular interactions
19: Materials 1: Macromolecules and aggregates
20: Materials 2: The solid state
Part 3. Change
21: Molecules in motion
22: The rates of chemical reactions
23: The kinetics of complex reactions
24: Molecular reaction dynamics
25: Processes at solid surfaces