Physical chemistry
/ Thomas Engel & Philip Reid
- India : Pearson India Education, Inc., 2018
- 1080 p.
fundamental concepts of thermodynamics ; heat, work internal energy enthalpy, and the first law of thermodynamics; the importance of state functions: internal energy and enthalpy thermodynamics; entropy and the second and third laws of thermodynamics ; chemical equilibrium ; the properties of real Gases ; phase diagrams and the relative stability of solids, liquids and gases ; ideal and real solutions; electrolyte solutions ; electrochemical cells, batteries and fuel cells; from classical to quantum mechanics ; the Schrodinger equation; the quantum mechanical postulates ; using quantum mechanics on simple systems; the particle in a box and the real world; commuting and noncommuting operators and the surprising consequences of entanglement ; a quantum mechanical model for the vibration and rotation of molecules ; the vibrational and rotational spectroscopy of diatomic molecules ; many electrons atoms ; quantum states for many electron atoms and atomic spectroscopy ; the chemical bond in diatomic molecules ; electronic spectroscopy ; computational chemistry ; molecular symmetry ; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; probability ; the boltzmann distribution ; ensemble and molecular partition functions ; statistical thermodynamics; kinetic theory of gases ; transport phenomena ; elementary chemical kinetics