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A Life Scientist's Guide to Physical Chemistry

Demonstrates how the tools of physical chemistry can be applied to biological questions, with numerous exercises and clearly-worked examples.

Marc R. Roussel (Author)

9780521186964, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 5 April 2012

456 pages, 113 b/w illus. 18 tables 360 exercises
24.7 x 17.5 x 2.2 cm, 0.89 kg

'Roussel's text would be very well suited for our one-semester physical chemistry for life sciences course.' Jochen Autschbach, State University of New York, Buffalo

Motivating students to engage with physical chemistry through biological examples, this textbook demonstrates how the tools of physical chemistry can be used to illuminate biological questions. It clearly explains key principles and their relevance to life science students, using only the most straightforward and relevant mathematical tools. More than 350 exercises are spread throughout the chapters, covering a wide range of biological applications and explaining issues that students often find challenging. These, along with problems at the end of each chapter and end-of-term review questions, encourage active and continuous study. Over 130 worked examples, many deriving directly from life sciences, help students connect principles and theories to their own laboratory studies. Connections between experimental measurements and key theoretical quantities are frequently highlighted and reinforced. Answers to the exercises are included in the book. Fully worked solutions and answers to the review problems, password-protected for instructors, are available at www.cambridge.org/roussel.

Preface
1. Orientation: what is physical chemistry about?
A note on graph axis labels and table headings
Part I. Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy: 2. A quick tour of quantum mechanical ideas
3. Spectroscopy
Part II. Thermodynamics: 4. Thermodynamics preliminaries
5. The first law
6. The second law of thermodynamics
7. Free energy
8. Chemical equilibrium and coupled reactions
9. Non-ideal behavior
10. Electrochemistry
Part III. Kinetics: 11. Basics of chemical kinetics
12. Initial rate experiments and simple empirical rate laws
13. Integrated rate laws
14. Complex reactions
15. Enzyme kinetics
16. Techniques for studying fast reactions
17. Factors that affect the rate constant
18. Diffusion and reactions in solution
Appendix A. End-of-term review problems
Appendix B. Answers to exercises
Appendix C. Standard thermodynamic properties at 298.15K and 1 bar
Appendix D. Standard reduction potentials at 298.15K
Appendix E. Physical properties of water
Appendix F. The SI system of units
Appendix G. Universal constants and conversion factors
Appendix H. Periodic table of the elements, with molar masses
Appendix I. Selected isotopic masses and abundances
Appendix J. Exponentials and logarithms
Appendix K. Review of integral calculus
Index.

Subject Areas: Surface chemistry & adsorption [PNRX], Thermochemistry & chemical thermodynamics [PNRW], Solid state chemistry [PNRS], Quantum & theoretical chemistry [PNRP], Nuclear chemistry, photochemistry & radiation [PNRL], Physical chemistry [PNR]

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