Frank Weinhold – författare

Simplified, innovative alternative to standard calculus-based thermodynamicsThis textbook proves how equilibrium thermodynamics, a traditionally difficult subject, can be accurately expressed using basic high school geometry concepts. Specifically, the text deals with classical equilibrium thermodynamics and its modern reformulation in metric geometric terms. The author emphasizes applications to chemical and phase equilibria in complex chemical systems, statistical mechanical origins, and extensions to near-equilibrium transport properties.The text is divided into three parts: Part One: Inductive Foundations of Classical ThermodynamicsPart Two: Gibbsian Thermodynamics of Chemical and Phase EquilibriaPart Three: Metric Geometry of Equilibrium ThermodynamicsIn addition to a rigorous introduction to the principles of chemical and phase thermodynamics, this text takes a novel, innovative approach, reformulating and extending these principles in the framework of Euclidean and Riemannian geometry. The resulting "thermodynamic geometry" provides a powerful alternative to the traditional calculus-based formulation of equilibrium thermodynamics. Students will find that this approach simplifies many mathematical derivations and clarifies thermodynamic logic. Moreover, this approach suggests novel extensions to equilibrium and nonequilibrium systems of arbitrary chemical and phase complexity.This text also provides a general introduction to vector- and matrix-algebraic methods that are highly effective for thermodynamics as well as applications in quantum mechanics and other advanced topics in physical chemistry.With its unique simplified approach to thermodynamics coupled with its discussions of the historical and conceptual development of the field, this text is ideal for both undergraduate and graduate students in physical chemistry, chemical engineering, thermal physics, and materials sciences.

Simplified, innovative alternative to standard calculus-based thermodynamics

This textbook proves how equilibrium thermodynamics, a traditionally difficult subject, can be accurately expressed using basic high school geometry concepts. Specifically, the text deals with classical equilibrium thermodynamics and its modern reformulation in metric geometric terms. The author emphasizes applications to chemical and phase equilibria in complex chemical systems, statistical mechanical origins, and extensions to near-equilibrium transport properties.

The text is divided into three parts:

Part One: Inductive Foundations of Classical Thermodynamics Part Two: Gibbsian Thermodynamics of Chemical and Phase Equilibria Part Three: Metric Geometry of Equilibrium Thermodynamics

In addition to a rigorous introduction to the principles of chemical and phase thermodynamics, this text takes a novel, innovative approach, reformulating and extending these principles in the framework of Euclidean and Riemannian geometry. The resulting "thermodynamic geometry" provides a powerful alternative to the traditional calculus-based formulation of equilibrium thermodynamics. Students will find that this approach simplifies many mathematical derivations and clarifies thermodynamic logic. Moreover, this approach suggests novel extensions to equilibrium and nonequilibrium systems of arbitrary chemical and phase complexity.

This text also provides a general introduction to vector- and matrix-algebraic methods that are highly effective for thermodynamics as well as applications in quantum mechanics and other advanced topics in physical chemistry.

With its unique simplified approach to thermodynamics coupled with its discussions of the historical and conceptual development of the field, this text is ideal for both undergraduate and graduate students in physical chemistry, chemical engineering, thermal physics, and materials sciences.

This graduate level text presents the first comprehensive overview of modern chemical valency and bonding theory, written by internationally recognised experts in the field. The authors build on the foundation of Lewis- and Pauling-like localized structural and hybridization concepts to present a book that is directly based on current ab-initio computational technology. The presentation is highly visual and intuitive throughout, based on the recognizable and transferable graphical forms of natural bond orbitals (NBOs) and their spatial overlaps in the molecular environment. The book shows applications to a broad range of molecular and supramolecular species of organic, inorganic and bioorganic interest. Hundreds of orbital illustrations help to convey the essence of modern NBO concepts for those with no extensive background in the mathematical machinery of the Schrödinger equation. This book will appeal to those studying chemical bonding in relation to chemistry, chemical engineering, biochemistry and physics.

This book explores chemical bonds, their intrinsic energies, and the corresponding dissociation energies which are relevant in reactivity problems. It offers the first book on conceptual quantum chemistry, a key area for understanding chemical principles and predicting chemical properties. It presents NBO mathematical algorithms embedded in a well-tested and widely used computer program (currently, NBO 5.9). While encouraging a "look under the hood" (Appendix A), this book mainly enables students to gain proficiency in using the NBO program to re-express complex wavefunctions in terms of intuitive chemical concepts and orbital imagery.

This book explores chemical bonds, their intrinsic energies, and the corresponding dissociation energies which are relevant in reactivity problems. It offers the first book on conceptual quantum chemistry, a key area for understanding chemical principles and predicting chemical properties. It presents NBO mathematical algorithms embedded in a well-tested and widely used computer program (currently, NBO 5.9). While encouraging a "look under the hood" (Appendix A), this book mainly enables students to gain proficiency in using the NBO program to re-express complex wavefunctions in terms of intuitive chemical concepts and orbital imagery.