Atkins' Physical Chemistry

📖 The Scoop

Atkins' Physical Chemistry is widely acknowledged by both students and lecturers around the globe to be the textbook of choice for studying physical chemistry. Now in its eleventh edition, down material to help you build confidence, and grouped into overarching Focuses, to show you the bigger picture. Enhanced with additional learning features and maths support, the text helps you learn more effectively with: detailed annotations of worked examples, broken into clear steps with sign-posted 'physical interpretation' section; a new 'How is that done?' feature, which brings you to a question by leading you through the solution; 'Chemist's toolkits', which provide you with succinct reminders of mathematical concepts and techniques right where you need them. This volume develops concepts of thermodynamics, the science of the transformations of energy, and kinetics, beginning with an exploration of the First, Second and Third Laws. We see that though the concepts of energy, enthalpy, entropy, Gibbs energy, and the chemical potential it is possible to obtain a detailed view of the core features of chemistry. This volume ends with a consideration of processes by which chemical change occurs, focusing on reactions on solid surfaces. -- From back cover.

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