Gases, Liquids and Solids: And Other States of Matter - Softcover

Tabor, D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521406676 ISBN 13: 9780521406673

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Synopsis

This is the third edition of a well-established and highly successful undergraduate text. The content of the second edition has been reworked and added to wherever necessary. There are new sections on amorphous solids and liquid crystals, and completely new chapters on colloids and polymers. Using elementary mathematics and simple models, Professor Tabor leads the reader skillfully and systematically from the basic physics of interatomic and intermolecular forces, temperature, heat and thermodynamics, to a coherent understanding of the bulk properties of gases, liquids, solids, liquid crystals, colloids, and polymers. The abiding theme is that all these macroscopic material properties can be understood as the result of the competition between thermal energy and intermolecular or interatomic forces.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This is a lucid textbook which will continue to provide students of physics and chemistry with a comprehensive and integrated view of the properties of matter in all its many fascinating forms.

Review:

"...well-written text in physical chemistry...will reward undergraduate science majors who wish to improve their insight into the nature of matter....Where it excels is in its demand for intellectual maturity, even though the level of mathematics never extends past first-year calculus." M.B. Snyder, Choice

"...would not only be suitable, but extremely valuable to complement the kind of theoretical education, heavy on quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, that we usually give our research-bound students." David L. Goodstein, Foundations of Physics

"...written in a clear and lucid style that makes it easy to read." John de Bruyn, La physique au Canada

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0521406676
• ISBN 13: 9780521406673
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 444