TY - BOOK AU - Kolasinski,Kurt W. TI - Physical chemistry: how chemistry works SN - 9781118751121 (pbk.) AV - QD453.3 .K65 2016 U1 - 541 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex PB - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. KW - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical KW - Textbooks KW - Chemistry N1 - Includes index; Introduction -- Statistical mechanics -- Ideal gases -- Non-ideal gases and intermolecular interactions -- Liquids, liquid crystals, and ionic liquids -- Solids, nanoparticles, and interfaces -- First law of thermodynamics -- Second law of thermodynamics -- Third law of thermodynamics and temperature dependence of heat capacity, enthalpy, and entropy -- Thermochemistry : the role of heat in chemical and physical changes -- Chemical equilibrium -- Phase stability and phase transitions -- Solutions and mixtures : nonelectrolytes -- Solutions of electrolytes -- Electrochemistry : the chemistry of free charge exchange -- Empirical chemical kinetics -- Reaction dynamics : mechanisms and rates -- Complex reactions mechanisms : catalysis, photochemistry and charge transfer -- Developing quantum mechanical intuition -- The quantum mechanical description of nature -- Model quantum systems -- Atomic structure -- Introduction to spectroscopy and atomic spectroscopy -- Molecular bonding and structure -- Molecular spectroscopy & excited state dynamics : diatomics -- Polyatomic molecules and group theory -- Light-matter interactions : lasers, laser spectroscopy, and photodynamics ER -