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Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Approach 1st Edition

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As the first modern physical chemistry textbook to cover quantum mechanics before thermodynamics and kinetics, this book provides a contemporary approach to the study of physical chemistry. By beginning with quantum chemistry, students will learn the fundamental principles upon which all modern physical chemistry is built. The text includes a special set of "MathChapters" to review and summarize the mathematical tools required to master the material Thermodynamics is simultaneously taught from a bulk and microscopic viewpoint that enables the student to understand how bulk properties of materials are related to the properties of individual constituent molecules. This new text includes a variety of modern research topics in physical chemistry as well as hundreds of worked problems and examples.
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    July 1, 1997
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    English
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Pedagogically pleasing, as it builds up physical chemistry from considerations of atoms to systems containing numerous molecules. --Choice

It is a superb book, to be greatly appreciated and treasured by generations of students to come. --Richard Zare, Stanford University

An excellent modern physical chemistry course that should inspire us to rethink our curriculum. --Journal of Chemical Education

About the Author

As the author of landmark chemistry books and textbooks, Donald McQuarrie's name is synonymous with excellence in chemical education. From his classic text on Statistical Mechanics to his recent quantum-first tour de force on Physical Chemistry, McQuarrie's best selling textbooks are highly acclaimed by the chemistry community. McQuarrie received his PhD from the University of Oregon, and is Professor Emeritus from the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis. He makes his home at The Sea Ranch in California with his wife Carole, where he continues to write. 

John D. Simon became the first George B. Geller Professor of Chemistry at Duke University in 1998. He is currently Chair Chemistry Department at Duke and a faculty member of the Biochemistry, and Ophthalmology Departments of the Duke Medical Center. John graduated from Williams College in 1979 with a B.A. in Chemistry and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1983. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Mostafa El-Sayed at UCLA, John joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at UCSD in 1985.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University Science Books; 1st edition (July 1, 1997)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1360 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0935702997
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0935702996
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 2.25 x 10.5 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Physical Chemistry Textbook
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I did a lot of reading from this textbook during my year of undergraduate physical chemistry and yes, I know physical chemistry can be frustrating, dry, and mathematically rigorous but i feel it is also immensely rewarding, even though I did not choose chemistry as my career. In my opinion, McQuarrie and Simon do an excellent job of incorporating the math with the chemistry. The book teaches the math right before the chemistry rather than assuming you learned it somewhere else. Also, the chapters and series of chapters are very self-contained, which meant there was no problem with the fact that my class did not follow the book's ordering of chapters. I really agreed with the choices the book made on how to teach thermodynamics and quantum. The book takes a statistical mechanics approach throughout, which I feel is easier than learning classical thermodynamics then introducing microstates/macrostates and stat. mech, even if the latter represents the the historical development of the topic. Personally, I believe quantum chemistry is the highlight of the book and is very well written. Similarly to thermodynamics, I agree with the differential equations approach to intro quantum mechanics rather than matrix algebra. Also, I really enjoyed the chapter-beginning bios highlighting a prominent physicist or chemist. To end my review, I feel the practice questions after each chapter are fairly involved, but appropriate to the difficulty level of an advanced undergrad class.
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Hendry
5.0 out of 5 stars Well Approached Text Book for PChem
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2007
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At first, this book - judging from its thickness - scared me. I owned 3 different 3 P-Chem books prior to this. They were dry, hard to comprehend and worst, they had a lot of typos. So when I saw this text by McQuarrie, I thought that it'd be one of those books that i had to buy for class.
After reading the first chapter, I could tell that this text was worth buying. Not only that it gives me the essential mathematical skills to approach p-chem, but it also informs me the applications of p-chem in both chemistry and biology. Best of all, it has the least 'typos' in comparison to other text.

The only drawback about this book is the paper. It's very thin - and i understand why. If it were printed in a regular paper, this book would have been twice as thick.

This text is the standard text at UC Berkeley.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Worthy Contribution to the Field of P. Chem
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2007
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I am a sterilization microbiologist with my education in medical microbiology. I have found it necessary over the many years I've been out of university to keep abreast and refreshed in the various contributing sciences to my field. Physical Chemistry was the Holy Terror of graduate school (and with good reason). If you weren't a whiz kid in calculas, physics, and chemistry, you had many many many long nights ahead of you. McQuarrie has taken an approach in this text that mitigates much of the terror. His approach is more of a teacher and less of a demi-god trying to impress you with how little you know and how much he knows. His approach is straight-forward and he provides ample use of review of basic principles in calculus, physics, math, etc. after each chapter. This helps in that you don't need to go hunting through old texts to find what you need to understand the concepts in the next chapter. While a massive text, it is worth every penny. This book is very well suited for anyone trying to refresh their knowledge, especially if you're studying by youself. Buy the book. You won't be disappointed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2014
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I am a chemistry major (I converted from chemical engineering halfway through my B.S.) and absolutely love this textbook. I took physical chemistry 2 (thermodynamics/kinetics) last semester and it was a really tough class. Even worse we were assigned the Engel/Reid textbook, which is total garbage.
This textbook helped me survive (and at times enjoy) the class.
The book is VERY logically organized. For the most part the math is very clear and easy to follow. They rarely skip steps, and take care to explain what is going on when deriving key equations. I never did any of the practice problems, but they look pretty good to me.

This Fall I am taking physical chemistry I (quantum mechanics, yes I took them out of order haha), and the teacher is supposedly pretty awful. And we're using Engel/Reid again.... So I suspect this textbook will get a lot more usage from me!

When I become a professor, and if this book is still in publication, this is definitely the textbook I'll assign. From my personal experience with it, and from what I have heard from others, this book is the best of the best.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book, great conceptual coverage
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2020
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I didn’t take a class in physical chemistry, I read though some books on related topics and did some research that integrated concepts from the discipline. This book is beautifully made and well written in a style that draws the reader in. It covers a broad range of physical chemistry concepts in a clear and logical way.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Sorry if you have to take the first semester of Physical Chemistry
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2014
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I only took the first semester of P-chem, and I thought the first few weeks were bearable, but the rest was a nightmare. This book was not very clear to me. The same variables over and over again, although they all seem to mean different things; and variables are rarely defined.
P-chem II looks like a more interesting subject, covering thermo and kinematics and things. But more power to you if quantum mechanics is your thing
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4.0 out of 5 stars Otherwise a good text for everything required by physical chemistry
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Some of the information is poorly presented at times (specifically the math sections trying to jog up understanding of concepts). Otherwise a good text for everything required by physical chemistry. Also author died, no more editions will come out unless a new author takes over.
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Giuseppe Basile
5.0 out of 5 stars IL libro di chimica fisica.
Reviewed in Italy on February 5, 2023
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Al di là della spedizione, impeccabile, non esistono motivi che spingano a non comprare questo libro, che rappresenta letteralmente la migliore delle basi in commercio per la chimica fisica insieme al testo classico di Castellan. Senza dubbio, ottimo per i corsi di chimica fisica che trattano la struttura della materia, mentre lo consiglio meno per i corsi che trattano la termodinamica classica e i processi macroscopici senza riferimenti alla termodinamica statistica.
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Best textbook in Physical Chemistry I’ve ever read!
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Aldo M.C.
5.0 out of 5 stars EXcelente libro, en tiempo y forma.
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El libro es excelente, muy bueno me sirvio de mucho para quimica cuantica y mecanica cuentica, es de lo mejor
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I love and hate it, as this was the text for my PhD comprehensive exam. Purchase the solution manual!
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