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- Eminently suitable as a required textbook comprising complete material for or an undergraduate chemistry major course in chemical thermodynamics
- Clearly explains details of formal derivations that students can easily follow and so master applied mathematical operations
- Offers problems and solutions at the end of each chapter for self-test and self- or group study
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This course-derived undergraduate textbook provides a concise explanation of the key concepts and calculations of chemical thermodynamics. Instead of the usual ‘classical’ introduction, this text adopts a straightforward postulatory approach that introduces thermodynamic potentials such as entropy and energy more directly and transparently.
Structured around several features to assist students’ understanding, Chemical Thermodynamics :
- Develops applications and methods for the ready treatment of equilibria on a sound quantitative basis.
- Requires minimal background in calculus to understand the text and presents formal derivations to the student in a detailed but understandable way.
- Offers end-of-chapter problems (and answers) for self-testing and review and reinforcement, of use for self- or group study.
This book is suitable as essential reading for courses in a bachelor and master chemistry program and is also valuable as a reference or textbook for students of physics, biochemistry and materials science.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This book is intended primarily as a text for undergraduate students in physical chemistry. … The author briefly describes the basics and attempts to provide students who have minimal calculus skills with an understanding of the subject. … Overall, the presentation is fairly straightforward and clearly written. … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates.” (R. Darby, Choice, Vol. 50 (4), December, 2012)Authors and Affiliations
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Dept. Physical Chemistry, Lab. Chemical Kinetics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary
Ernö Keszei
About the author
Ernö Keszei is professor of physical chemistry at the Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary. He received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry also in Budapest in 1978 and has worked on numerous research projects and also as a visiting scientist in Canada and Moscow. In addition to his active research, Ernö Keszei has been teaching undergraduates physical chemistry since 1975.
He is the author of over 60 papers in scientific journals and has major contributions in three books. Chemical Thermodynamics: An Introduction is based on his lectures held since 1991.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chemical Thermodynamics
Book Subtitle: An Introduction
Authors: Ernö Keszei
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19864-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-19863-2Published: 14 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-19864-9Published: 26 January 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 354
Number of Illustrations: 71 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Physical Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, general, Biochemistry, general