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Atkins' Physical Chemistry Paperback – 1 March 2006

by Peter Atkins (Author), Julio De Paula (Contributor)
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Atkins' Physical Chemistry remains the benchmark of achievement for a chemistry degree throughout the world. The judicious choice of topics, the clear writing style of both authors, and the careful exposition of maths, reaffirm the book's position as market leader. In the eighth edition the authors provide a more compact presentation through the careful restructuring and redistribution of material. The coverage of introductory topics has been streamlined, and later topics rationalized, bringing into sharper focus the scope of the text to mirror the needs of today's students and lecturers. Mathematics remains an intrinsic yet challenging part of physical chemistry; the new edition offers greater explanation and support, to ensure that students can master the important mathematical principles, without sacrificing the rigour and depth of its mathematical content. The pedagogical framework, which is a hallmark of Atkins' writing, has been strengthened further: new 'Notes on good practice' provide guidance on the use of terminology and help students to avoid common pitfalls; short 'Commentaries' remind students of the applications of mathematical and physical concepts, and provide useful cross-references to related resources in the book and on the accompanying companion web site. The eighth edition introduces new 'Impact on' sections which integrate the impact of physical chemistry on modern applications such as biology, biochemistry, medicine, nanoscience and astrophysics. All these exciting new features and innovations are presented within a new full colour text design, to stimulate and engage students still further. Online Resource Centre: The companion web site contains Living Graphs, illustrations from the book, and web links. An Instructor's Solutions Manual (free to adopters) and a Student's Solutions Manual are also available. The book is also complemented by a new edition of the 'Explorations in Physical Chemistry' CD, which contains interactive Excel worksheets and exercises related to the Living Graphs, allowing students to visualise, actively explore and test their understanding of the subject.
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  1. Print length
    1096 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Oxford University Press BPS
  4. Publication date
    1 March 2006
  5. Dimensions
    22 x 4.57 x 27.6 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0198700725
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0198700722
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press BPS; 8th edition (1 March 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1096 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198700725
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198700722
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 22 x 4.57 x 27.6 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 72

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    Peter Atkins was born in England in 1940 and went to the University of Leicester for his first degree (in chemistry) and his PhD (1964). After a year in UCLA as a Harkness Fellow he went to Oxford University as lecturer in physical chemistry and Fellow of Lincoln College, where he remained until his retirement in 2007. Some retirement! He continues to write books, which now number close to 70 with more on the way. He was the founding chairman of IUPAC's Committee on Chemistry Education, which is charged with bringing good practice in the teaching of chemistry, especially in developing countries, and has been a visiting professor in Japan, China, Israel, France, and New Zealand. He continues to lecture widely, both on aspects of chemical education and on the communication of science to the general public. He lives near Oxford.

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Prasanta Das
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This book is now included many current research topics and good to give a fresh look for both teaching and learning. Color three dimensional graphics are very helpful to imagine and understand the subject matters. I recommend to read this book if you want to gain more about physical chemistry.
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I ordered "Atkins Physical Chemistry" from Amazon Warehouse Deals, for my son at University. I took a risk as the book was second hand, so I trusted the description "good condition" and ordered it. It arrived (on free delivery to the Uni in Birmingham) and my son said he is very happy..he said the book is very clean and looks hardly used and we are very pleased with the price, as he is on a tight budget! Many thanks.
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Ray E. Smith, Jr.
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Ambiguities in the terms disorder and chaos, which usually have meanings directly opposed to equilibrium, contribute to widespread confusion and hamper comprehension of entropy for most students.[37] As the second law of thermodynamics shows, in an isolated system internal portions at different temperatures will tend to adjust to a single uniform temperature and thus produce equilibrium. A recently developed educational approach avoids ambiguous terms and describes such spreading out of energy as dispersal, which leads to loss of the differentials required for work even though the total energy remains constant in accordance with the first law of thermodynamics[38] (compare discussion in next section). Physical chemist Peter Atkins, for example, who previously wrote of dispersal leading to a disordered state, now writes that "spontaneous changes are always accompanied by a dispersal of energy", and has discarded 'disorder' as a description.[25][39]
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The above statement, that "Peter Atkins...has discarded 'disorder' as a description", appears to be slander against Professor Atkins. If you google "Peter Atkins Physical Chemistry entropy disorder", you will find, on Google books, Elements of Physical Chemistry by Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula, 2009,Page 86: "It should be plausible that the change in entropy - the change in the degree of disorder - is proportional to the energy transfer that takes place by making use of disorderly motion rather than orderly motion . . . . a hot object (one in which the atoms have a lot of disorderly thermal motion) . . . . The entropy is a measure of the current state of disorder of the system . . . . A sample . . . has the same degree of molecular disorder - the same entropy - regardless of what has happened to it in the past" Page 87: "the entropy of a sample gas increases as it expands because the molecules get to move in a greater volume and so have a greater degree of disorder."
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M. K.
5.0 out of 5 stars kenne kein besseres buch!
Reviewed in Germany on 25 July 2007
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das buch ist wirklich TOP!

selbst mit schwachen englisch-kenntnissen ist das buch äußert leicht zu lesen und zu verstehen!
es stehen ausreichend viele aufgaben, hintergrundinfos und online-verweise zur verfügung.

einziges manko: der dünne einband und die hauchdünnen seiten sind echt nicht das optimale!

wer "physikalische chemie" lernen und verstehen will braucht dieses buch! ich kann es nur empfehlen und will's nicht mehr missen!
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