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Quanta, Matter, and Change: A Molecular Approach to Physical Chemistry
Oxford University Press
From its formative days spent exploring the bulk properties of matter, physical chemistry as a discipline is now being reinvigorated by our ever-increasing understanding of the properties of matter at the molecular level.
Quanta, Matter, and Change takes a traditional course in physical chemistry and recasts it from this new molecular perspective. Building on the heritage of the world-renowned Atkins’ Physical Chemistry, it gives a fresh insight into the familiar by illuminating physical chemistry from a new direction.
Beginning with quantum theory, the book establishes the link with the macroscopic world by introducing statistical thermodynamics, before showing how thermodynamics is used to describe the bulk properties of matter. Reformulating familiar concepts in new ways, the book also explores the latest practical tools, the most significant among them being computation chemistry.
About the Author
Ronald Friedman is Professor and Chair of the Chemistry Department at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne. He received a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Virginia, a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University, and did post-doctoral work at the University of Minnesota. He teaches general chemistry and physical chemistry at IPFW and has also taught at the University of Michigan and at the Technion (Israel). His research interests are theories of reaction dynamics.
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