TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Fundamental Concepts of Thermodynamics
2 Heat, Work, Internal Energy, Enthalpy, and the First Law of Thermodynamics
3 The Importance of State Functions: Internal Energy and Enthalpy
4 Thermochemistry
5 Entropy and the Second and Third Laws of Thermodynamics
6 The Gibbs Energy and Chemical Equilibrium
7 Phase Equilibria
8 Ideal and Real Solutions
9 Electrolyte Solutions, Electrochemical Cells, and Redox Reactions
10 Principles of Biochemical Thermodynamics
11 Biochemical Equilibria
12 From Classical to Quantum Mechanics
13 The Schroedinger Equation
14 Using Quantum Mechanics on Simple Systems: The Free Particle, the Particle in a Box, and the Harmonic Oscillator
15 The Hydrogen Atom and Many-Electron Atoms
16 Chemical Bonding in Diatomic Molecules
17 Molecular Structure and Energy Levels for Polyatomic Molecules
18 Vibrational and Rotational Spectroscopy
19 Electronic Spectroscopy
20 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
21 The Structure of Biomolecules at the Nanometer Scale: X-Ray Diffraction and Atomic Force Microscopy
22 The Boltzmann Distribution
23 Statistical Thermodynamics
24 Transport Phenomena
25 Elementary Chemical Kinetics
26 Complex Biological Reactions
Appendices
A Math Supplement
B Data Tables
C Answers to Selected End-of-Chapter Problems
Index
