Preparing for Your ACS Examinations in Physical Chemistry: The Official Guide
(Commonly called the Physical Chemistry Study Guide)
ISBN 10: 0-9708042-2-9
ISBN 13: 987-0-9708042-2-8
This paperback guide includes 126 pages of information separated into three installments: Thermodynamics, Dynamics, and Quantum Mechanics, each with their own collection of chapters.
Each chapter is designed with three sections:
- Introductory section of the material.
- Worked examples of typical multiple-choice questions, A.K.A. Study Questions, including how the correct and incorrect answers are determined.
- A series of Practice Questions to test the concepts collectively. The key is provided on a separate page for all Practice and Study Questions.
Chapters in the study guide are as follows:
Thermodynamics
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- Equations of State
- Laws of Thermodynamics and State Functions
- Mathematical Relationships in Thermodynamics
- Chemical and Phase Equilibria
Dynamics
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- Kinetic Molecular Theory
- Transport Properties
- Phenomenological Kinetics
- Mechanisms
- Reaction Dynamics
- Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics
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- Quantum Chemistry: History and Concepts
- Simple Analytical Mechanical Model Systems
- Modern Quantum Mechanical Problems: Atomic systems
- Symmetry
- Molecular Orbital Theory
- Spectral Problems
- Advanced Topics: Electronic Structure Theory and Spectroscopy