Assignments

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Assignments consist of problems from the resources listed below. The problems for each homework set are compiled and handed out in lecture about a week before the due date listed in the syllabus.

Amazon logo Atkins, P., and J. de Paula. Physical Chemistry. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Company, 2001. ISBN: 9780716735397.

Amazon logo Castellan, G. Physical Chemistry. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1983. ISBN: 9780201103861.

Amazon logo Chang, R. Physical Chemistry for the Chemical and Biological Sciences. Sausalito, CA: University Science Books, 2000. ISBN: 9781891389061.

Amazon logo McQuarrie, D., and J. Simon. Molecular Thermodynamics. Sausalito, CA: University Science Books, 1999. ISBN: 9781891389054.

Amazon logo Mortimer, R. Physical Chemistry. Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780125083454.

Amazon logo Schroeder, D. An Introduction to Thermal Physics. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1999. ISBN: 9780201380279.

Amazon logo Silbey, R., R. Alberty, and M. Bawendi. Physical Chemistry. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. ISBN: 9780471215042.

In addition, the reading assignments below are to be completed in preparation for the indicated problem set. They are from the required textbook:

Amazon logo Atkins, P., and J. de Paula. Physical Chemistry. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Company, 2001. ISBN: 9780716735397.

The reading assignments below are to be completed in preparation for the indicated problem set. They are from the required textbook:

Amazon logo Silbey, R., R. Alberty, and M. Bawendi. Physical Chemistry. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. ISBN: 9780471215042.


PROBLEM SET # READINGS
1 Chapters 1, 2.1-2.8
2 Chapter 2.9-2.13
3 Chapters 3.1-3.5, 3.7, 3.9
4 Chapters 3.8, 4.1-4.4, 4.6-4.7, 4.9
5 Chapters 5.1, 5.3-5.8
6 Chapters 6.1-6.5, 6.7
7 Chapters 16.1-16.2, 16.9-16.10
8 Chapters 16.3-16.4, 16.12-16.13
9 pp. 641-667