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Readership: Undergraduates at all stages of their Bachelors and Masters chemistry degree programmes. Also a valuable reference for postgraduates and researchers.
Peter Atkins, Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Julio de Paula, Professor and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, USA
""Atkins" is the gold standard of technical education in Physical Chemistry. " - Stephen Fletcher, Loughborough.
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 orbitals for polyatomic systems 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 Data section Answers to exercises Answers to problems Index