With its modern emphasis on the molecular view of physical chemistry, its wealth of contemporary applications (in the new “Impact on” features), vivid full-color presentation, and dynamic new media tools, the thoroughly revised new edition is again the most modern, most effective full-length textbook available for the physical chemistry classroom. Available in Split VolumesFor maximum flexibility in your physical chemistry course, this text isnow offered as a traditional text or in two volumes.Volume 1: Thermodynamics and Kinetics (ISBN 0-7167-8567-6)Volume 2: Quantum Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and StatisticalThermodynamics (ISBN 0-7167-8569-2)See Table of Contents for the contents of each volume. Each copy of Physical Chemistry, Eighth Edition and its split volumes comes with a FREE access code to Explorations in Physical Chemistry 2.0 Online .
Peter William Atkins is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being.
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