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Chemical Thermodynamics and Statistical Aspects

Questions to Ask in Fundamentals and Principles

  • 1st Edition - June 22, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Joseph J. Stephanos, Anthony W. Addison
  • Language: English

Chemical Thermodynamics and Statistical Aspects: Questions to Ask in Fundamentals and Principles covers a full range of topics in macroscopic and statistical thermodyn… Read more

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Description

Chemical Thermodynamics and Statistical Aspects: Questions to Ask in Fundamentals and Principles covers a full range of topics in macroscopic and statistical thermodynamics. Every step in the book is compiled with sharp and precise attention to detail. Derivations cover fundamental relationships and reinforce and extend the knowledge gained form an earlier exposure to thermodynamics. The book is filled with all kinds of physics processes, a variety of quantum mechanics, and calculus problems involving timely mathematical functions. Special emphases is given to fundamental concepts and their chemical interpretations, which are essential to understanding molecular formation and reaction mechanism.

This book will be a useful reference source for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in chemistry, students in chemical engineering, and those in the materials sciences. It will also be of value to research workers who would like an introduction to the essential principles of physical chemistry.

Key features

  • Includes detailed solutions with the necessary mathematical techniques provided for every problem
  • Addresses problems incorporating a variety of types of chemical and physical data to illustrate the interdependence of issues
  • Includes a "Questions and Answers" feature which differentiates this book from competing books in the field

Readership

Undergraduates, and postgraduates taking courses in chemistry, students in chemical engineering, and materials sciences, research workers who would like an introduction into the essential principles of physical chemistry

Table of contents

1. Thermodynamics variables and fundamentals2. Work, heat, internal energy, and enthalpy3. Entropy of pure substance in single phase 34. Free energy of pure substance in single phase5. Thermodynamics of homogeneous and heterogeneous systems6. Thermodynamics of mixtures7. Activity8. Thermodynamics and chemical processes9. Statistics and particle distributions10. Distribution of independent particles in an isolated system11. Thermodynamic properties of the dilute limit distributions12. Partition function of independent particles13. Energy mode and thermodynamic probabilities14. Thermodynamic properties of ideal gases15. Thermodynamic properties of ideal gas mixtures16. Thermodynamic properties of solids17. Canonical ensemble18. Microcanonical and grand canonical ensembles

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 27, 2023
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Joseph J. Stephanos

Joseph J. Stephanos is associate professor of inorganic, bioinorganic, biophysics chemistry at Menoufia University. He has been postdoctoral research associate at Pennsylvania University, postdoctoral instructor and adjunct associate professor at Drexel University and has held various teaching positions leading to the current one. Dr. Stephanos’ research interests concern inorganic studies of biologically active molecules, studying model compounds, their structure and bonding, and the chemistry of metalloproteins and ligands binding, with special reference to mechanistic aspects and structure/function relation. He is the author and coauthor of several articles and one previous book, Chemistry of Metalloproteins: Problems and Solutions in Bioinorganic Chemistry.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Inorganic, Bioinorganic, Biophysics Chemistry, Menoufia University, Lauran, Alexandria, Egypt

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Anthony W. Addison

Anthony W. Addison is a C. & M. Lindback Distinguished Teaching Awardee, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (’08) and of the American Chemical Society (’12). He is an officer and past Chairman of the ACS Philadelphia Section, and a member of IES & CSC. He is lead author of the 6th-most-cited article in the field of Inorganic Chemistry in the last 30 years. His >240 articles and conference presentations have garnered ca. 10,000 citations in the research literature. His research interests are focused on the design and synthesis of novel biomimetic and oligonuclear chelates of copper, nickel, iron and vanadium.
Affiliations and expertise
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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