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Physical chemistry for the life sciences / 6 6 Thomas Engel, Gary Drobny, Philip Reid. - - - 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.) 29 cm. - - - - - . - . - 0 . - . - 0 .

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fundamental concepts of thermodynamics -- Heat, work, internal energy, enthalpy, and the First law of thermodynamics -- The importance of state functions: internal energy and enthalpy -- Thermochemistry -- Entropy and the Second and Third laws of thermodynamics -- The Gibbs energy and chemical equilibrium -- Phase equilibria -- Ideal and real solutions -- Electrolyte solutions, electrochemical cells, and redox reactions -- Principles of biochemical thermodynamics -- Biochemical equilibria -- From classical to quantum mechanics -- The Schr©œdinger equation -- Using quantum mechanics on simple systems: the free particle, the particle in a box, and the harmonic oscillator -- The hydrogen atom and many-electron atoms -- Chemical bonding in diatomic molecules -- Molecular structure and energy levels for polyatomic molecules -- Vibrational and rotational spectroscopy -- Electronic spectroscopy -- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy -- The structure of biomolecules at the nanometer scale: X-ray diffraction and atomic force -- Microscopy -- The Boltzmann distribution -- Statistical thermodynamics -- Transport phenomena -- Elementary chemical kinetics -- Complex biological reactions.

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