文档介绍：ATKINS’
PHYSICAL
CHEMISTRY
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ATKINS’
PHYSICAL
CHEMISTRY
Eighth Edition
Peter Atkins
Professor of Chemistry,
University of Oxford,
and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford
Julio de Paula
Professor and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Lewis and Clark College,
Portland, Oregon
W. H. Freeman pany
New York
Library of Congress Control Number: 2005936591
Physical Chemistry, Eighth Edition
© 2006 by Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula
All rights reserved
ISBN: 0-7167-8759-8
EAN: 9780716787594
Published in Great Britain by Oxford University Press
This edition has been authorized by Oxford University Press for sale in the
United States and Canada only and not for export therefrom.
First printing
W. H. Freeman pany
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New York, NY 10010
Preface
We have taken the opportunity to refresh both the content and presentation of this
text while—as for all its editions—keeping it flexible to use, accessible to students,
broad in scope, and authoritative. The bulk of textbooks is a perennial concern: we
have sought to tighten the presentation in this edition. However, it should always be
borne in mind that much of the bulk arises from the numerous pedagogical features
that we include (such as Worked examples and the Data section), not necessarily from
density of information.
The most striking change in presentation is the use of colour. We have made every
effort to use colour systematically and pedagogically, not gratuitously, seeing as a
medium for making the text more attractive but using it to convey concepts and data
more clearly. The text is still divided into three parts, but material has been moved
between chapters and the chapters have been anized. We have responded to the
shift in emphasis away from classical thermodynamics bining several chapters
in Part 1 (Equilibrium), bearing in mind that some of the material will already have
been covered in earlier courses. We no longer m