Book description
This book is a physical chemistry textbook that presents the essentials
of physical chemistry as a logical sequence from its most modest
beginning to contemporary research topics. Many books currently on the
market focus on the problem sets with a cursory treatment of the
conceptual background and theoretical material, whereas this book is
concerned only with the conceptual development of the
subject. Comprised of 19 chapters, the book will address ideal gas
laws, real gases, the thermodynamics of simple systems, thermochemistry,
entropy and the second law, the Gibbs free energy, equilibrium,
statistical approaches to thermodynamics, the phase rule, chemical
kinetics, liquids and solids, solution chemistry, conductivity,
electrochemical cells, atomic theory, wave mechanics of simple systems,
molecular orbital theory, experimental determination of molecular
structure, and photochemistry and the theory of chemical kinetics.
Donald W. Rogers is Professor Emeritus in the Department of
Chemistry and Biochemistry at Long Island University. He is the author
of six books and received his PhD from the University of North Carolina.
