Chemical Thermodynamics: Basic Concepts And Methods, 7Th Edition

Logically organized and full of worked examples, this edition has also been fully updated to reflect current theories, practice and research. Building on the example set by Klotz (late chemical thermodynamics, Northwestern U.), Rosenberg (chemistry emeritus, Lawrence U.) explains the mathematics involved, then covers the first through third laws of thermodynamics, enthalpy, heat capacity, applications of the first law to gases, equilibrium and spontaneity for systems of constant temperature, the Gibbs function and the Planck function, the thermodynamics of systems of variable composition, applications of the Gibbs function to chemical changes, the phase rule, the ideal solution, determination of nonelectrolyte activities and excess Gibbs functions from experimental data, calculation of partial molar quantities and excess molar quantities from experimental data, strong electrolytes, changes for Gibbs function for processes in solutions, systems subject to a gravitational or a centrifugal field and estimation of thermodynamic quantities. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Irving M. Klotz, PhD, deceased, was a noted expert in chemical thermodynamics and the physical chemistry of proteins. Dr. Klotz was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1968 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1970. He joined the Northwestern faculty in 1940 and retired in 1986. Dr. Klotz was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1971 and published more than 200 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. He wrote Chemical Thermodynamics: Basic Theory and Methods in 1950. Dr. Rosenberg began working with him as coauthor with the third edition. ROBERT M. ROSENBERG, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Lawrence University and an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University.