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Authors: Donald A. McQuarrie, John D. Simon
ISBN-13: 9780935702996, ISBN-10: 0935702997
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University Science Books
Date Published: January 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
Preface | ||
Acknowledgment | ||
Ch. 1 | The Dawn of the Quantum Theory | 1 |
MathChapter A: Complex Numbers | 31 | |
Ch. 2 | The Classical Wave Equation | 39 |
MathChapter B: Probability and Statistics | 63 | |
Ch. 3 | The Schrodinger Equation and a Particle in a Box | 73 |
MathChapter C: Vectors | 105 | |
Ch. 4 | Some Postulates and General Principles of Quantum Mechanics | 115 |
MathChapter D: Spherical Coordinates | 147 | |
Ch. 5 | The Harmonic Oscillator and the Rigid Rotator: Two Spectroscopic Models | 157 |
Ch. 6 | The Hydrogen Atom | 191 |
MathChapter E: Determinants | 231 | |
Ch. 7 | Approximation Methods | 241 |
Ch. 8 | Multielectron Atoms | 275 |
Ch. 9 | The Chemical Bond: Diatomic Molecules | 323 |
Ch. 10 | Bonding in Polyatomic Molecules | 371 |
Ch. 11 | Computational Quantum Chemistry | 411 |
MathChapter F: Matrices | 441 | |
Ch. 12 | Group Theory: The Exploitation of Symmetry | 453 |
Ch. 13 | Molecular Spectroscopy | 495 |
Ch. 14 | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy | 547 |
Ch. 15 | Lasers, Laser Spectroscopy, and Photochemistry | 591 |
MathChapter G: Numerical Methods | 627 | |
Ch. 16 | The Properties of Gases | 637 |
MathChapter H: Partial Differentiation | 683 | |
Ch. 17 | The Boltzmann Factor and Partition Functions | 693 |
MathChapter I: Series and Limits | 723 | |
Ch. 18 | Partition Functions and Ideal Gases | 731 |
Ch. 19 | The First Law of Thermodynamics | 765 |
MathChapter J: The Binomial Distribution and Stirling's Approximation | 809 | |
Ch. 20 | Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics | 817 |
Ch. 21 | Entropy and the Third Law of Thermodynamics | 853 |
Ch. 22 | Helmholtz and Gibbs Energies | 881 |
Ch. 23 | Phase Equilibria | 925 |
Ch. 24 | Chemical Equilibrium | 963 |
Ch. 25 | The Kinetic Theory of Gases | 1011 |
Ch. 26 | Chemical Kinetics I: Rate Laws | 1047 |
Ch. 27 | Chemical Kinetics II: Reaction Mechanisms | 1091 |
Ch. 28 | Gas-Phase Reaction Dynamics | 1139 |
Ch. 29 | Solids and Surface Chemistry | 1181 |
Answers to the Numerical Problems | 1237 | |
Illustration Credits | 1257 | |
Index | 1259 |