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Much of chemistry is motivated by asking 'How'? How do I make a primary alcohol? React a Grignard reagent with formaldehyde. Physical chemistry is motivated by asking 'Why'? The Grignard reagent and formaldehyde follow a molecular dance known as a reaction mechanism in which stronger bonds are made at the expense of weaker bonds. If you are interested in asking 'why' and not just 'how', then you need to understand physical chemistry.
Physical Chemistry: How Chemistry Works takes a fresh approach to teaching in physical chemistry. This modern textbook is designed to excite and engage undergraduate chemistry students and prepare them for how they will employ physical chemistry in real life. The student-friendly approach and practical, contemporary examples facilitate an understanding of the physical chemical aspects of any system, allowing students of inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, analytical chemistry and biochemistry to be fluent in the essentials of physical chemistry in order to understand synthesis, intermolecular interactions and materials properties. For students who are deeply interested in the subject of physical chemistry, the textbook facilitates further study by connecting them to the frontiers of research.
Provides students with the physical and mathematical machinery to understand the physical chemical aspects of any system.
Integrates regular examples drawn from the literature, from contemporary issues and research, to engage students with relevant and illustrative details.
Important topics are introduced and returned to in later chapters: key concepts are reinforced and discussed in more depth as students acquire more tools.
Chapters begin with a preview of important concepts and conclude with a summary of important equations.
Each chapter includes worked examples and exercises: discussion questions, simple equation manipulation questions, and problem-solving exercises.
Accompanied by supplementary online material: worked examples for students and a solutions manual for instructors.
Fifteen supporting videos from the author presenting such topics as Entropy & Direction of Change; Rate Laws; Sequestration; Electrochemistry; etc.
Written by an experienced instructor, researcher and author in physical chemistry, with a voice and perspective that is pedagogical and engaging.
Autorentext
Professor Kurt W. Kolasinski, West Chester University, Pennsylvania, USA
Kurt Kolasinski has been a Professor of physical chemistry at West Chester University since 2014 having joined the faculty in 2006. He has held faculty positions at the University of Virginia (2004 - 2006), Queen Mary University of London (2001 - 2004), and the University of Birmingham (UK) (1995 - 2001). His research focuses on surface science, laser/surface interactions and nanoscience. A particular area of expertise is the formation of nanostructures in silicon and porous silicon using a variety of chemical and laser-based techniques. He is the author of over 100 scholarly publications as well as the widely used textbook Surface Science: Foundations of Catalysis and Nanoscience, which appeared in its third edition in 2012.
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Much of chemistry is motivated by asking 'How'? How do I make a primary alcohol? React a Grignard reagent with formaldehyde. Physical chemistry is motivated by asking 'Why'? The Grignard reagent and formaldehyde follow a molecular dance known as a reaction mechanism in which stronger bonds are made at the expense of weaker bonds. If you are interested in asking 'why' and not just 'how', then you need to understand physical chemistry.
Physical Chemistry: How Chemistry Works takes a fresh approach to teaching in physical chemistry. This modern textbook is designed to excite and engage undergraduate chemistry students and prepare them for how they will employ physical chemistry in real life. The student-friendly approach and practical, contemporary examples facilitate an understanding of the physical chemical aspects of any system, allowing students of inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, analytical chemistry and biochemistry to be fluent in the essentials of physical chemistry in order to understand synthesis, intermolecular interactions and materials properties. For students who are deeply interested in the subject of physical chemistry, the textbook facilitates further study by connecting them to the frontiers of research.
Inhalt
Preface xv
About the companion website xvii
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Atoms and molecules 1
1.2 Phases 2
1.3 Energy 3
1.4 Chemical reactions 4
1.5 Problem solving 5
1.6 Some conventions 7
Exercises 11
Further reading 14
2 Ideal gases 15
2.1 Ideal gas equation of state 16
2.2 Molecular degrees of freedom 18
2.3 Translational energy: Distribution and relation to pressure 21
2.4 Maxwell distribution of molecular speeds 23
2.5 Principle of equipartition of energy 24
2.6 Temperature and the zeroth law of thermodynamics 25
2.7 Mixtures of gases 27
2.8 Molecular collisions 27
Exercises 29
Further reading 30
3 Non-ideal gases and intermolecular interactions 31
3.1 Non-ideal behavior 31
3.2 Interactions of matter with matter 32
3.3 Intermolecular interactions 34
3.4 Real gases 39
3.5 Corresponding states 42
3.6 Supercritical fluids 43
Exercises 43
Further reading 44
4 Liquids, liquid crystals, and ionic liquids 45
4.1 Liquid formation 45
4.2 Properties of liquids 45
4.3 Intermolecular interaction in liquids 47
4.4 Structure of liquids 50
4.5 Internal energy and equation of state of a rigid sphere liquid 52
4.6 Concentration units 53
4.7 Diffusion 55
4.8 Viscosity 57
4.9 Migration 59
4.10 Interface formation 60
4.11 Liquid crystals 62
4.12 Ionic liquids 64
Exercises 66
Further reading 67
5 Solids, nanoparticles, and interfaces 68
5.1 Solid formation 68
5.2 Electronic structure of solids 70
5.3 Geometrical structure of solids 72
5.4 Interface formation 76
5.5 Glass formation 78
5.6 Clusters and nanoparticles 78
5.7 The carbon family: Diamond, graphite, graphene, fullerenes, and carbon nanotubes 80
5.8 Porous solids 83
5.9 Polymers and macromolecules 84
Exercises 86
Endnotes 86
Further reading 86
6 Statistical mechanics 87
6.1 The initial state of the universe 88
6.2 Microstates and macrostates of molecules 89
6.3 The connection of entropy to microstates 91
6.4 The constant 𝛼: Introducing the partition function 93
6.5 Using the partition function to derive thermodynamic functions 94
6.6 Distribution functions for gases 96
6.7 Quantum statistics for particle distributions 98
6.8 The MaxwellBoltzmann speed distribution 102
6.9 Derivation of the ideal gas law 103
6.10 Deriving the SackurTetrode equation for entrop…