1.
Atkins’
Physical Chemistry:
The
book has been written by Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula. The text has been
enhanced with additional learning features and maths support and has been
radically restructured into short focused topics.
NEW
TO THIS EDITION:
· Significant
reorganization of the material within each chapter into discrete ‘topics’ makes
the text more readable for students and more flexible for instructors.
· Expanded maths support includes new
“Chemist’s toolkits” which provide students with succinct reminders of
mathematical concepts and techniques.
· Three questions at the
beginning of each topic engage and focus the attention of the reader: “Why do
you need to know this material?”, “What is the key idea?”, and “What do you need to know already?”
· New checklists of key concepts at the end of
each topic reinforce the main take-home messages for each section.
2. Principles of Physical
Chemistry:
The
book has been written by B.R.Puri, L.R.sharma and Madan S. Pathania. The book
comprehensively covers the B.Sc and M.Sc Syllabi prescribed by UGC.
The
significant features of this edition are that two new chapters have been
added. Quantum mechanics is dealt with in 3 chapters and statistical
thermodynamics is spread over 2 chapters. Some materials have been
shifted at several places within the chapters to maintain continuity and impart
lucidity and simplicity to the treatment. Complete quantum mechanical treatment
of the hydrogen atom, with special emphasis on the detailed solution of
the Schrodinger equation, has been given. The radiant equation and
the spherical harmonics have at last received the emphasis they really deserved.
Also, the approximate method for the wave mechanical treatment of many-electron
atoms has been updated. Several other modern topics have been shifted to
where they properly belong in the text. The treatment of angular momentum and
atomic spectra is fairly comprehensive; the inessential details have been
avoided. Several solved examples have been added. The chapter on statistical
thermodynamics centres around the partition function derived from quantum
mechanics. The new chapter on classical statistical mechanics builds on the
concepts of phase space and Gibbsian ensembles and rederives results already
known from conventional thermodynamics.
3.
Physical
Chemistry:
This
book has been written by Ira N. Levine. This book is for the standard
undergraduate course in physical chemistry. The book gives careful definitions
and explanations of concepts, full details of most derivations, and reviews of
relevant topics in mathematics and physics. Each chapter has a summary of the
key points. The summaries list the specific kinds of calculations that students
are expected to learn how to do. A substantial number of worked-out examples
are included. Most examples are followed by an exercise with the answer given,
to allow students to test their understanding. A wide variety of problems are
included.
Many
student errors in thermodynamics result from the use of equations in situations
where they do not apply. To help prevent this, important thermodynamic equations
have their conditions of applicability listed alongside the equations.
Systematic listings of procedures for common kinds of processes are given.
Detailed procedures are given for the use of a spreadsheet to solve such
problems as fitting data to a polynomial, solving simultaneous equilibria,
doing linear and nonlinear least-squares fits of data, using an equation of
state to calculate vapor pressures and molar volumes of liquids and vapor in
equilibrium, and computing a liquid-liquid phase diagram by minimization of G.
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