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(BQ) Part 1 book "Atkins’ physical chemistry" has contents: The properties of gases, the first law, the second law, physical transformations of pure substances, simple mixtures, phase diagrams, chemical equilibrium, atomic structure and atomic spectra, molecular structure,.and other contents. | ATKINS’ PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY This page intentionally left blank 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 and Company 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 and Company 41 Madison Avenue 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 reorganized. We have responded to the shift in emphasis away from classical thermodynamics by combining 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