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If the descriptive text youre using for teaching general chemistry seems to lack sufficient mathematics and physics to make the results of its presentation of classical mechanics, molecular structure, and statisticsunderstandable, youre not alone. Written to provide supplemental and mathematically challenging topics for the advanced lower-division undergraduate chemistry course, or the non-major, junior-level physical chemistry course, The Physical Basis of Chemistry will offer your students an opportunity to explore quantum mechanics, the Boltzmann distribution, and spectroscopy in a refreshingly compelling way.
Posed and answered are questions concerning everyday phenomena: How can two discharging shotguns and two stereo speakers be used to contrast particles and waves? Why does a collision between one atom of gas and the wall of its container transfer momentum but not much energy? How does a microwave oven work? Why does carbon dioxide production heat the earth? Why are leaves green, water blue, and how do the eyes detect the difference? Unlike other texts on this subject, however, The Physical Basis of Chemistry deals directly with the substance of these questions, avoiding the use of predigested material more appropriate for memorization exercises than for actual concrete learning. The only prerequisite is first-semester calculus, or familiarity withderivatives of one variable.
Provides a concise, logical introduction to physical chemistry
Features carefully worked-out sample problems at the end of each chapter
Includes more detailed and clearly explained coverage of quantum mechanics and statistics than found in other texts
Available in an affordable paperback edition
Designed specifically as a supplementary text for advanced/honors chemistry courses
Uses SI units throughout
Posed and answered are questions concerning everyday phenomena: How can two discharging shotguns and two stereo speakers be used to contrast particles and waves? Why does a collision between one atom of gas and the wall of its container transfer momentum but not much energy? How does a microwave oven work? Why does carbon dioxide production heat the earth? Why are leaves green, water blue, and how do the eyes detect the difference? Unlike other texts on this subject, however, The Physical Basis of Chemistry deals directly with the substance of these questions, avoiding the use of predigested material more appropriate for memorization exercises than for actual concrete learning. The only prerequisite is first-semester calculus, or familiarity withderivatives of one variable.
Provides a concise, logical introduction to physical chemistry
Features carefully worked-out sample problems at the end of each chapter
Includes more detailed and clearly explained coverage of quantum mechanics and statistics than found in other texts
Available in an affordable paperback edition
Designed specifically as a supplementary text for advanced/honors chemistry courses
Uses SI units throughout
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Lord Ernest Rutherford, 1908 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, put it bluntly:
Science is divided into two categories: physics and stamp collecting.
But he would have been astonished to see the transformation of biology from "stamp collecting" into molecular biology, genomics, biochemistry, and biophysics in this century. This transformation occurred only because, time and time again, fundamental advances in theoretical physics drove the development of useful new tools for chemistry. Chemists in turn learned how to synthesize and characterize ever more complex molecules, and eventually created a quantitative framework for understanding biology and medicine.
This book presents the physical, mathematical, and statistical concepts necessary for understanding the structure and function of molecules. The emphasis is placed on understanding the critical core material in quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and spectroscopy that should be understood by any scientist or student of science. It is designed to enhance any general chemistry text by reintroducing concepts that require a little mathematical sophistication. It is also useful as a stand-alone background text for introductions to materials science, biophysics, and clinical imaging.
Praise for the First Edition:
"Both [Warren's] choice of material and his style and flair of presentation are exceptionally good."
--Dudley Herschbach, Harvard University
"Professor Warren writes clearly and forcefully. His expression is at a high level but it is presented in an inviting manner for students-not condescending and not too cute."
--Richard N. Zare, Stanford University
"This is a great book to supplement either an advanced general chemistry course or a junior-level physical chemistry course. It would serve opposite functions in those two settings, but would work well in either. As a supplement to an introductory chemistry textbook, it would provide mathematically advanced students with additional challenge and rigor. As a supplement to a physical chemistry textbook, it would provide a bridge between the standard introductory material and the mathematically more sophisticated physical chemistry texts."
--Deborah Huntley, Saginaw State University
Warren S. Warren, Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from U.C. Berkley in 1980. His publications range from Physical Review Letters and invited papers in Science on his research in nuclear magnetic resonance and ultrafast laser spectroscopy to the Journal of Chemical Education. He received the 1982 Nobel Laureate Signature Award of the American Chemical Society and has held numerous fellowships.
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Science is divided into two categories: physics and stamp collecting.
But he would have been astonished to see the transformation of biology from "stamp collecting" into molecular biology, genomics, biochemistry, and biophysics in this century. This transformation occurred only because, time and time again, fundamental advances in theoretical physics drove the development of useful new tools for chemistry. Chemists in turn learned how to synthesize and characterize ever more complex molecules, and eventually created a quantitative framework for understanding biology and medicine.
This book presents the physical, mathematical, and statistical concepts necessary for understanding the structure and function of molecules. The emphasis is placed on understanding the critical core material in quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and spectroscopy that should be understood by any scientist or student of science. It is designed to enhance any general chemistry text by reintroducing concepts that require a little mathematical sophistication. It is also useful as a stand-alone background text for introductions to materials science, biophysics, and clinical imaging.
Praise for the First Edition:
"Both [Warren's] choice of material and his style and flair of presentation are exceptionally good."
--Dudley Herschbach, Harvard University
"Professor Warren writes clearly and forcefully. His expression is at a high level but it is presented in an inviting manner for students-not condescending and not too cute."
--Richard N. Zare, Stanford University
"This is a great book to supplement either an advanced general chemistry course or a junior-level physical chemistry course. It would serve opposite functions in those two settings, but would work well in either. As a supplement to an introductory chemistry textbook, it would provide mathematically advanced students with additional challenge and rigor. As a supplement to a physical chemistry textbook, it would provide a bridge between the standard introductory material and the mathematically more sophisticated physical chemistry texts."
--Deborah Huntley, Saginaw State University
Warren S. Warren, Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from U.C. Berkley in 1980. His publications range from Physical Review Letters and invited papers in Science on his research in nuclear magnetic resonance and ultrafast laser spectroscopy to the Journal of Chemical Education. He received the 1982 Nobel Laureate Signature Award of the American Chemical Society and has held numerous fellowships.
Both [Warrens] choice of material and his style and flair of presentation are exceptionally good.
--DUDLEY HERSCHBACH, Harvard University
Professor Warren writes clearly and forcefully. His expression is at a high level but it is presented in an inviting manner for students-not condescending and not too cute.
--RICHARD N. ZARE, Stanford University
The overall presentation is logical. It builds the way a good textbook should on preparatory material.
--EDWARD SAMULSKI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A book such as this is urgently needed and I dont know of anything similar that I could steer my students to.
--REGITZE R. VOLD, University of California, San Diego
--DUDLEY HERSCHBACH, Harvard University
Professor Warren writes clearly and forcefully. His expression is at a high level but it is presented in an inviting manner for students-not condescending and not too cute.
--RICHARD N. ZARE, Stanford University
The overall presentation is logical. It builds the way a good textbook should on preparatory material.
--EDWARD SAMULSKI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A book such as this is urgently needed and I dont know of anything similar that I could steer my students to.
--REGITZE R. VOLD, University of California, San Diego
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- PublisherAcademic Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0127358501
- ISBN 13 9780127358505
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages168
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