Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Approach

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As the first modern physical chemistry textbook to cover quantum mechanics before thermodynamics and kinetics, this book provides a contemporary approach to the study of physical chemistry. By beginning with quantum chemistry, students will learn the fundamental principles upon which all modern physical chemistry is built. The text includes a special set of "Math Chapters" to review and summarize the mathematical tools required to master the material. Thermodynamics is simultaneously taught from a bulk and microscopic viewpoint that enables the student to understand how bulk properties of materials are related to the properties of individual constituent molecules. This new text includes a variety of modern research topics in physical chemistry as well as hundreds of worked problems and examples.

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s Donald McQuarrie received his PhD from the University of Oregon, and is Professor Emeritus from the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis. John D. Simon became the first George B. Geller Professor of Chemistry at Duke University in 1998. He is currently Chair Chemistry Department at Duke and a faculty member of the Biochemistry, and Ophthalmology Departments of the Duke Medical Center. Table of Contents The Dawn of Quantum Theory Math Chapter A/Complex Numbers The Classical Wave Equation Math Chapter B/Probability and Statistics The Schrodinger Equation and a Particle In a Box Math Chapter C/ Vectors Some Postulates and General Principles of Quantum Mechanics Math Chapter D/ Spherical Coordinates The Harmonic Oscillator and the Rigid Rotator: Two Spectroscopic Models The Hydrogen Atom Math Chapter E/ Determinants Approximation Methods Multielectron Atoms The Chemical Bond: Diatomic Molecules Bonding in Polyatomic Molecules Computational Quantum Chemistry Math Chapter F/ Matrices Group Theory: The Exploitation of Symmetry Molecular Spectroscopy Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Lasers, Laser Spectroscopy, and Photochemistry Math Chapter G/Numerical Methods The Properties of Gases Math Chapter H/Partial Derivatives The Boltzmann Factor and Partition Functions Math Chapter I/Series and Limits Partition Functions and Ideal Gases The First Law of Thermodynamics Math Chapter J/ The Binomial Distribution and Stirling’s Approximation Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics Entropy and the Third Law of Thermodynamics Helmholtz and Gibbs Energies Phase Equilibria Chemical Equilibria The Kinetic Theory of Gases Chemical Kinetics I: Rate Laws Chemical Kinetics II: Reaction Mechanisms Gas-Phase Reaction Dynamics Solids and Surface Chemistry Answers to Numerical Problems Index.