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Engel and Reids Physical Chemistry gives students a contemporary and accurate overview of physical chemistry while focusing on basic principles that unite the sub-disciplines of the field. The Third Edition continues to emphasize fundamental concepts and presents cutting-edge research developments that demonstrate the vibrancy of physical chemistry today.#1. Fundamental Concepts of Thermodynamics 2. Heat, Work, Internal Energy, Enthalpy and the First Law of Thermodynamics 3. The Importance of State Functions: Internal Energy and Enthalpy 4. Thermochemistry 5. Entropy and the Second and Third Laws of Thermodynamics 6. Chemical Equilibrium 7. The Properties of Real Gases 8. Phase Diagrams and the Relative Stability of Solids, Liquids and Gases 9. Ideal and Real Solutions 10. Electrolyte Solutions 11. Electrochemical Cells, Batteries and Fuel Cells 12. The SchrÃdinger Equation 13. The Quantum Mechanical Postulates 14. The Particle in the Box and the Real World 15. Commuting and Noncommuting Operators and the Surprising Consequences of Entanglement 16. A Quantum Mechanical Model for the Vibration and Rotation of Molecules 17. The Vibrational and Rotational Spectroscopy of Diatomic Molecules 18. The Hydrogen Atom 19. Many-Electron Atoms 20. Quantum States for Many- Electron Atoms and Atomic Spectroscopy 21. The Chemical Bond in Diatomic Molecules 22. Molecular Structure and Energy Levels for Polyatomic Molecules 23. Electronic Spectroscopy 24. Computational Chemistry 25. Molecular Symmetry 26. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 27. The Boltzmann Distribution 28. Ensemble and Molecular Partition Functions 29. Statistical Thermodynamics 30. Kinetic Theory of Gases 31. Transport Phenomena 32. Elementary Chemical Kinetics 33. Complex Reaction Mechanisms#top