LCCN2017-950918
Reviews'I like the division of the material into shorter "chapters". This helps to navigate through the material and break it up into "lecture-size" bites. This is a comprehensive and well-organised textbook that covers all the core physical chemistry. It is attractively presented with excellent online resources and makes a major effort to guide the student carefully through the more demanding mathematics and derivations.'
Table Of ContentPrologue Focus 1: The properties of gases Focus 2: The First Law Focus 3: The Second and Third Laws Focus 4: Physical transformations of pure substances Focus 5: Simple mixtures Focus 6: Chemical equilibrium Focus 7: Quantum theory Focus 8: Atomic structure and spectra Focus 9: Molecular structure Focus 10: Molecular symmetry Focus 11: Molecular spectroscopy Focus 12: Magnetic resonance Focus 13: Statistical thermodynamics Focus 14: Molecular interactions Focus 15: Solids Focus 16: Molecules in motion Focus 17: Chemical kinetics Focus 18: Reaction dynamics Focus 19: Processes at solid surfaces Resource section: including extended tables of data
SynopsisAtkins' Physical Chemistry is widely acknowledged by both students and instructors around the globe to be the textbook of choice for studying physical chemistry. The eleventh edition has been enhanced with additional learning features and math support, and reorganized into discrete Topics, to make the text more flexible for teachers and more readable for students. WebAssign New for this edition, Atkins' Physical Chemistry can be packaged with WebAssign, a flexible and fully customizable online instructional solution. It allows instructors to deploy assignments and to instantly assess individual student performance. For packaging information, or to arrange a demo, contact your OUP sales representative., The exceptional quality of previous editions has been built upon to make this new edition of Atkins' Physical Chemistry even more closely suited to the needs of both lecturers and students. Re-organised into discrete Topics, the text is more flexible to teach from and more readable for students. Now in its eleventh edition, the text has been enhanced with additional learning features and maths support to demonstrate the absolute centrality of mathematics to physical chemistry. Increasing the digestibility of the text in this new approach, the reader is brought to a question, then the maths is used to show how it can be answered and progress made. The expanded and redistributed maths support also includes a greatly increased number of 'Chemist's toolkits' which provide students withsuccinct reminders of mathematical concepts and techniques right where they need them. Checklists of key concepts at the end of each Topic add to the extensive learning support provided throughout the book, to reinforce the main take-home messages in each section. The coupling of the broad coverage of the subject with a structure and use of pedagogy that is even more innovative will ensure Atkins' Physical Chemistry remains the textbook of choice for studying physical chemistry. Online resourcesAtkins' Physical Chemistry is accompanied by a range of online resources: For registered adopters of the book:· Figures and tables from the book, in ready to download format· Tables of key equations· Instructor's Solutions ManualFor students:· Web links to a range of additional physical chemistry resources on the internet· Group theory tables, available for downloading· Molecular modelling problems· Impact sections show the application of physical chemistry in a diverse range of modern contexts· 'Further Information' sections which consist of longer derivations