Physical Chemistry: Pearson New International Edition

Thomas Engel has taught chemistry for more than 20 years at the University of Washington, where he is currently Professor of Chemistry and Associate Chair for the Undergraduate Program. Professor Engel received his bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from the Johns Hopkins University, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Chicago. He then spent 11 years as a researcher in Germany and Switzerland, in which time he received the Dr. rer. nat. habil. degree from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1980, he left the IBM research laboratory in Zurich to become a faculty member at the University of Washington.Professor Engel's research interests are in the area of surface chemistry, and he has published more than 80 articles and book chapters in this field. He has received the Surface Chemistry or Colloids Award from the American Chemical Society and a Senior Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which has allowed him to establish collaborations with researchers in Germany. He is currently working together with European manufacturers of catalytic converters to improve their performance for diesel engines. Philip Reid has taught chemistry at the University of Washington since he joined the chemistry faculty in 1995. Professor Reid received his bachelor's degree from the University of Puget Sound in 1986, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992. He performed postdoctoral research at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, campus before moving to Washington.Professor Reid's research interests are in the areas of atmosphere chemistry, condensed-phase reaction dynamics, and nonlinear optical materials. He has published more than 70 articles in these fields. Professor Reid is the recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, is a Cottrell Scholar of the Research Corporation, and is a Sloan fellow.

• 1 Fundamental Concepts of Thermodynamics2 Heat, Work, Internal Energy, Enthalpy, and the First Law of Thermodynamics3 The Importance of State Functions: Internal Energy and Enthalpy4 Thermochemistry5 Entropy and the Second and Third Laws of Thermodynamics6 Chemical Equilibrium7 The Properties of Real Gases8 Phase Diagrams and the Relative Stability of Solids, Liquids, and Gases9 Ideal and Real Solutions10 Electrolyte Solutions11 Electrochemical Cells, Batteries, and Fuel Cells12 From Classical to Quantum Mechanics13 The Schrödinger Equation14 The Quantum Mechanical Postulates15 Using Quantum Mechanics on Simple Systems16 The Particle in the Box and the Real World17 Commuting and Noncommuting Operators and the Surprising Consequences of Entanglement18   A Quantum Mechanical Model for the Vibration and Rotation of Molecules19 The Vibrational and Rotational Spectroscopy of Diatomic Molecules20 The Hydrogen Atom21 Many-Electron Atoms22 Quantum States for Many- Electron Atoms and Atomic Spectroscopy23 The Chemical Bond in Diatomic Molecules24 Molecular Structure and Energy Levels for Polyatomic Molecules25 Electronic Spectroscopy26 Computational Chemistry27 Molecular Symmetry28 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy29 Probability30 The Boltzmann Distribution31 Ensemble and Molecular Partition Functions32 Statistical Thermodynamics33 Kinetic Theory of Gases34 Transport Phenomena35 Elementary Chemical Kinetics

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