Manual to
Accompany Atkins’
Physical Chemistry
ELEVENTH EDITION
Peter Bolgar
Haydn Lloyd
Aimee North
Vladimiras Oleinikovas
Stephanie Smith
and
James Keeler
Department of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
UK
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, Table of contents
Preface vii
1 The properties of gases 1
1A The perfect gas 1
1B The kinetic model 12
1C Real gases 24
2 Internal energy 41
2A Internal energy 41
2B Enthalpy 47
2C Thermochemistry 50
2D State functions and exact differentials 58
2E Adiabatic changes 66
3 The second and third laws 73
3A Entropy 73
3B Entropy changes accompanying specific processes 79
3C The measurement of entropy 91
3D Concentrating on the system 101
3E Combining the First and Second Laws 107
4 Physical transformations of pure substances 119
4A Phase diagrams of pure substances 119
4B Thermodynamic aspects of phase transitions 121
5 Simple mixtures 137
5A The thermodynamic description of mixtures 137
5B The properties of solutions 149
5C Phase diagrams of binary systems: liquids 165
5D Phase diagrams of binary systems: solids 173
5E Phase diagrams of ternary systems 179
5F Activities 184
6 Chemical equilibrium 199
6A The equilibrium constant 199