• Focused introductions designed to give students an in-depth understanding of a diverse range of important topics in modern chemistry.
• Frequent diagrams and margin notes support students in their learning.
• Questions at the end of the book and interactive online questions encourage active learning and promote deep understanding.
• A focus on the underlying physical chemistry helps introduce the mathematics in an approachable way.
• Short, relatively self-contained chapters means the text is digestible for students to learn from, and flexible for lecturers to teach from.

New to this Edition:

• An Online Resource Centre provides interactive questions for students and downloadable figures for instructors.
• An alternative derivation of the canonical ensemble is now provided in Chapter Four.
• New end of chapter summaries help students to understand the key 'take home' points for each topic.
• New self-test questions and numerical problems enable students to practice using the material covered in the primer to solve problems.

The renowned Oxford Chemistry Primers series, which provides focused introductions to a range of important topics in chemistry, has been refreshed and updated to suit the needs of today's students, lecturers, and postgraduate researchers. The rigorous, yet accessible, treatment of each subject area is ideal for those wanting a primer in a given topic to prepare them for more advanced study or research.
  
The learning features provided, including end-of-book problems and online multiple-choice questions, encourage active learning and promote understanding. Furthermore, frequent diagrams and marginal notes help to enhance students' understanding of these essential areas of chemistry.
  
Statistical Thermodynamics gives a concise and accessible account of this fundamental topic by emphasizing the underlying physical chemistry, and using this to introduce the mathematics in an approachable way. The material is presented in short, self-contained sections, making it flexible to teach and learn from, and concludes with the application of the theory to real systems.
 
 
Online Resource Center
The Online Resource Centre to accompany Statistical Thermodynamics features: 
  
For students: 
*Worked solutions to the questions and problems at the end of the book
*Multiple-choice questions for self-directed learning