The Elements of Physical Chemistry

by Peter Atkins

With its emphasis on physical principles, careful exposition of essential mathematics, and helpful pedagogy, Elements of Physical Chemistry is the ideal text for the one-semester physical chemistry course. The new edition offers even more student and instructor support, now in a beautiful full-color presentation.

Genres: Chemistry, Science, Reference, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Physics

627 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1992

About the author

Peter William Atkins is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being.

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Reviews

[Anna Gallina · Rating 2 out of 5]

useful, but it didn’t explain a bunch of things like the schrödinger equation very profusely

[Euisry Noor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Disappointed with the Indonesian translation edition, I decided to read the original book. This is the textbook used in my Chemical Structure & Bonding class.

[Georgeos Hardo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yes. I read the entire book. It was actually good.

[SURENDR]

nice