
Understanding Physical Chemistry takes an innovative approach to teaching this fundamentally important subject, by stressing core ideas such as the entropic forces that drive all chemical processes and the quantum states that dictate the structures and colors of atoms and molecules...

The text focuses on the key principles of physical chemistry. As a result, the text is shorter in length, but deeper than most other physical chemistry texts. A key feature of this book is its integrated and cohesive structure, which strikes a new balance in the presentation...