Physical Chemistry

📗 After having taught physical chemistry for many years, we have found that the textbooks available were either too complex without sufficient verbal explanation or lacked the depth and range of topics required for the training of chemists. We therefore set out to write a text that can be easily understood by students who are meeting physical chemistry for the first time and which would still have the mathematical rigor and range necessary for a solid foundation. The students are assumed to have a basic knowledge of chemistry, physics, and mathematics such as is provided by the courses usually given to science students in their first year at a university. Since this book is rather comprehensive, it covers more than can probably be included in a oneyear course, and it may be useful in more advanced courses and as a general reference book for those working in fields that require a basic knowledge of the subject. Several special aids are provided for the student in this book: The Preview of each chapter describes the material to be presented in a brief narrative that gives a sense of unity to the material of the chapter. As an aid for the student, all new terms are in italics or in boldface type for special emphasis. Particular attention should be paid to these terms as well as to the equations that appear in boldface type. There are many workedout examples in the text in which we have emphasized the dimensionality of the units of the quantities. Key equations that appear in the c...