Contents
Periodic Table
Inside front cover
List of Numerical Tables in Appendix A
Inside front cover
Information Tables
Inside back cover
Preface
xv
Acknowledgments
xvii
Part 1 Thermodynamics and the Macroscopic
Description of Physical Systems
1
Chapter 1
The Behavior of Gases and Liquids
3
1.1
Introduction
4
1.2
Systems and States in Physical Chemistry
12
1.3
Real Gases
21
1.4
The Coexistence of Phases and the Critical Point
27
Chapter 2
Work, Heat, and Energy: The First Law of
Thermodynamics
39
2.1
Work and the State of a System
40
2.2
Heat
51
2.3
Internal Energy: The First Law of Thermodynamics
55
2.4
Calculation of Amounts of Heat and Energy Changes
60
2.5
Enthalpy
74
2.6
Calculation of Enthalpy Changes of Processes without Chemical Reactions
81
2.7
Calculation of Enthalpy Changes of a Class of Chemical
Reactions
86
2.8
Calculation of Energy Changes of Chemical Reactions
94
Chapter 3
The Second and Third Laws of Thermodynamics:
Entropy
105
3.1
The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Carnot Heat
Engine
106
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