Concise Physical Chemistry

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CONTENTS

Foreword xxi

Preface xxiii

1 Ideal Gas Laws 1

1.1 Empirical Gas Laws, 1

1.1.1 The Combined Gas Law, 2

1.1.2 Units, 2

1.2 The Mole, 3

1.3 Equations of State, 4

1.4 Dalton’s Law, 5

Partial Pressures,

1.5 The Mole Fraction, 6

1.6 Extensive and Intensive Variables, 6

1.7 Graham’s Law of Effusion, 6

Molecular Weight Determination,

1.8 The Maxwell–Boltzmann Distribution, 7

Figure 1.1 The Probability Density for Velocities of Ideal

Gas Particles at T=0., 8

Boltzmann’s Constant,

Figure 1.2 A Maxwell–Boltzmann Distribution Over

Discontinuous Energy Levels.,

1.9 A Digression on “Space”, 9

Figure 1.3 The Gaussian Probability Density Distribution

in 3-Space.,

The Gaussian Distribution in 2- and 3- and 4-Space,

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