Julio de Paula, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of chemistry, coauthors this text designed for the two-semester physical chemistry course. It begins with quantum mechanics, introduces statistical mechanics, and progresses to thermodynamics.
W.H. Freeman, 2008. 782 pages.
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