Physical Chemistry (eBook)

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.

Preface

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Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2 Statistical Mechanics

Chapter 3 Ideal Gases

Chapter 4 Non-Ideal Gases and Intermolecular Interactions

Chapter 5 Liquids, Liquid Crystals and Ionic Liquids

Chapter 6 Solids, Nanoparticles and Interfaces

Chapter 7 First Law of Thermodynamics

Chapter 8 Second Law of Thermodynamics

Chapter 9 Third Law of Thermodynamics and Temperature Dependence of Heat Capacity, Enthalpy and Entropy

Chapter 10 Thermochemistry - The Role of Heat in Chemical and Physical Changes

Chapter 11 Chemical Equilibrium

Chapter 12 Phase Stability and Phase Transitions

Chapter 13 Solutions and Mixtures: Nonelectrolytes

Chapter 14 Solutions of Electrolytes

Chapter 15 Electrochemistry - The Chemistry of Free Charge Exchange

Chapter 16 Empirical Chemical Kinetics

Chapter 17 Reaction Dynamics: Mechanisms and Rates

Chapter 18 Complex Reactions Mechanisms - Catalysis, Photochemistry and Charge Transfer

Chapter 19 Developing Quantum Mechanical Intuition

Chapter 20 The Quantum Mechanical Description of Nature

Chapter 21 Model Quantum Systems

Chapter 22 Atomic Structure

Chapter 23 Introduction to Spectroscopy and Atomic Spectroscopy

Chapter 24 Molecular Bonding and Structure

Chapter 25 Molecular Spectroscopy & Excited State Dynamics - Diatomics

Chapter 26 Polyatomic Molecules and Group Theory

Chapter 27 Light-Matter interactions: Lasers, Laser Spectroscopy and Photodynamics

Appendix 1 Basic Calculus and Trigonometry

Appendix 2. The method of undetermined multipliers

Appendix 3. Stirling's Theorem

Appendix 4. Density of States of a Particle in a Box

Appendix 5. Blackbody radiation: Treating radiation as a photon gas

Appendix 6. Definitions of symbols used in quantum mechanics and quantum chemistry

Appendix 7 Character Tables

Appendix 8: Periodic behavior

Appendix 9 Thermodynamic Parameters

Index