
With its modern emphasis on the molecular view of physical chemistry, its wealth of contemporary applications (in the new "Impact on" features), vivid full-color presentation, and dynamic new media tools, the thoroughly revised new edition is again the most modern, most effective full-length textbook available for the physical chemistry classroom. NOW AVAILABLE IN SPLIT VOLUMES For maximum flexibility in your physical chemistry course, this text is now offered as a traditional or in two volumes. • Volume 1: Thermodynamics and Kinetics (ISBN 0-7167-8567-6) • Volume 2: Quantum Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and Statistical Thermodynamics (ISBN 0-7167-8569-2) See Table of Contents for the contents of each volume.
Author

Peter Atkins is a fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford and the author of about 70 books for students and a general audience. His texts are market leaders around the globe. A frequent lecturer in the United States and throughout the world, he has held visiting professorships in France, Israel, Japan, China, and New Zealand. He was the founding chairman of the Committee on Chemistry Education of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and was a member of IUPAC’s Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.