ISBN : 9780198769866
New to this Edition:
The exceptional quality of previous editions has been built upon to make this new edition of Atkins' Physical Chemistry even more closely suited to the needs of both lecturers and students. Re-organised into discrete Topics, the text is more flexible to teach from and more readable for students.
Now in its eleventh edition, the text has been enhanced with additional learning features and maths support to demonstrate the absolute centrality of mathematics to physical chemistry. Increasing the digestibility of the text in this new approach, the reader is brought to a question, then the maths is used to show how it can be answered and progress made. The expanded and redistributed maths support also includes a greatly increased number of 'Chemist's toolkits' which provide students with succinct reminders of mathematical concepts and techniques right where they need them.
Checklists of key concepts at the end of each Topic add to the extensive learning support provided throughout the book, to reinforce the main take-home messages in each section. The coupling of the broad coverage of the subject with a structure and use of pedagogy that is even more innovative will ensure Atkins' Physical Chemistry remains the textbook of choice for studying physical chemistry.
REVIEWS:
"'I like the division of the material into shorter "chapters". This helps to navigate through the material and break it up into "lecture-size" bites. This is a comprehensive and well-organised textbook that covers all the core physical chemistry. It is attractively presented with excellent online resources and makes a major effort to guide the student carefully through the more demanding mathematics and derivations.'" - Professor Eleanor Campbell, Edinburgh University
"'Once again the authors have succeeded in improving on the already very high standard of the previous edition. '" - Matthew Ryder, student, Heriot-Watt University
"'I really like the new approach. I like the checklist of concepts and the overarching "why you need to know this material" pointers at the start of each chapter. '" - Dr Darren Walsh, University of Nottingham
"'I have used this book for more than 30 years. It is the best textbook of physical chemistry for year 2 and year 3 students in physical science departments, and for their teachers. I also use this textbook as reference book for teaching other courses and even for my research.'" - Wuzong Zhou, St Andrews University
Prologue
Focus 1: Gases
Focus 2: The First Law
Focus 3: The Second and Third Laws
Focus 4: Physical transformations of pure substances
Focus 5: Simple mixtures
Focus 6: Chemical equilibrium
Focus 7: Introduction to quantum theory
Focus 8: Atomic structure and spectra
Focus 9: Molecular structure
Focus 10: Molecular symmetry
Focus 11: Molecular spectroscopy
Focus 12: Magnetic resonance
Focus 13: Statistical thermodynamics
Focus 14: Molecular interactions
Focus 15: Solids
Focus 16: Liquids
Focus 17: Chemical kinetics
Focus 18: Reaction dynamics
Focus 19: Processes on surface
Resource section: including extended tables of data