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. It contains mathematical background, worked examples and problem sets. Comprised of 21 chapters, the book addresses ideal gas laws, real gases, the thermodynamics of simple systems, thermochemistry, entropy and the second law, the Gibbs free energy, equilibrium, statistical approaches to thermodynamics, the phase rule, chemical kinetics, liquids and solids, solution chemistry, conductivity, electrochemical cells, atomic theory, wave mechanics of simple systems, molecular orbital theory, experimental determination of molecular structure, and photochemistry and the theory of chemical kinetics"--

1. Ideal gas laws -- Empirical gas laws -- The mole -- Equations of state -- Dalton's Law -- Partial pressures -- Extensive and intensive variables -- Graham's Law of Effusion -- Molecular weight determination -- The Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution -- Boltzmann's constant -- The Gaussian probability density distribution -- Probability density of molecular velocities in a spherical velocity space -- 2. The Real gases : empirical equations -- The van der Waals Equation -- The Virial Equation : a parametric curve fit -- The compressibility factor -- The critical temperature -- Reduced variables -- The Law of Corresponding States -- Boyle's Law plot for an ideal gas -- 3. The thermodynamics of simple systems -- Conservation laws and exact differentials -- The reciprocity relationship -- Thermodynamic cycles -- Line integrals in general -- Pythagorean approximation to the short arc of a curve -- Thermodynamic states and systems -- State functions -- Reversible processes and path independence -- Heat capacity -- Energy and enthalpy -- The Joule and Joule-Thompson experiments -- The heat capacity of an ideal gas -- Adiabatic work -- 4. Thermochemistry -- Calorimetry -- energies and enthal…