Concise physical chemistry

This book is a physical chemistry textbook that presents the essentials of physical chemistry as a logical sequence from its most modest beginning to contemporary research topics. Many books currently on the market focus on the problem sets with a cursory treatment of the conceptual background and theoretical material, whereas this book is concerned only with the conceptual development of the subject. Comprised of 19 chapters, the book will address ideal gas laws, real gases, the thermodynamics of simple systems, thermochemistry, .

Chapter 1 Ideal Gas Laws. 1.1 Empirical Gas Laws. 1.2 The Mole. 1.3 Equatio of State. 1.4 Dalton's Law. 1.5 The Mole Fraction. 1.6 Extensive and Intensive Variables. 1.7 Graham's Law of Effusion. 1.8 The Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution. 1.9 A Digression on "Space". 1.10 The Sum-Over-States or Partition Function. Chapter 2 Real Gases: Empirical Equations. 2.1 The van der Waals Equation. 2.2 The Virial Equation: A Parametric Curve Fit. 2.3 The Compressibility Factor. 2. 4 The Critical Temperature. 2.5 Reduced Variables. 2.6 The Law of Corresponding States, Another View. 2.7 Compressibility Factors Calculated From the van der Waals Constants. 2.8 Boyle's Law Plot for an Ideal Gas (lower curve) and for Nitrogen (upper curve). 2.9 Determining the Molecular Weight of a Nonideal Gas. Chapter 3 The Thermodynamics of Simple Systems. 3.1 Conservation Laws and Exact Differentials. 3.2 Thermodynamic Cycles. 3.3 Line Integrals in General. 3. 3 Pythagorean Approximation to the Short Arc of a Curve