TEXTBOOK OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, SECOND EDITION By MOUDGIL, H. K.

In a methodical and accessible style, the book discusses classical, irreversible and statistical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, and describes macroscopic chemical systems, steady states and thermodynamics at a molecular level. It elaborates the underlying principles of quantum mechanics, molecular spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography and solid state chemistry along with their applications. The book explains various instrumentation techniques such as potentiometry, polarography, voltammetry, conductometry and coulometry. It also describes kinetics, rate laws and chemical processes at the electrodes. In addition, the text deals with chemistry of corrosion and nanomaterials.

This text is primarily designed for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of chemistry (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) for their course in physical chemistry.

•   Gives a thorough treatment to ensure a solid grasp of the material.
•   Presents a large number of figures and diagrams that help amplify key concepts.
•   Contains several worked-out examples for better understanding of the subject matter.
•   Provides numerous chapter-end exercises to foster conceptual understanding.

Part I: Thermodynamics

1.    Classical Thermodynamics
2.    Irreversible Thermodynamics or Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics
3.    Statistical Thermodynamics
4.    Statistical Mechanics

Part II: Spectroscopy

5.    Quantum Mechanics
6.    Introduction to Molecular Spectroscopy
7.    X-ray Crystallography
8.    Solid State Chemistry

Part III: Instrumental Techniques
9.    Reference Electrodes and Potentiometric Methods
10.  Polarography and Voltammetry
11.  Conductometric Methods
12.  Coulometric Analysis

Part IV: Electrochemistry

13.  Electrified Interface
14.  Electrodics
15.  Contact Adsorption on the Electrode
16.  Structure of Semiconductor—Electrolyte Interface
17.  Multistep Reactions
18.  Energy Conversion
19.  Corrosion

Part V: Reaction Dynamics

20.  Chemical Kinetics

Part VI: Advanced Chemistry

21.  Chemistry of Nanomaterials

Appendix • Logarithms Tables • Index