Thermodynamics and Chemistry

Version 1 December 2010 (525 pages)

Version 2 May 2011 (524 pages)

Section 8.2.3: modified Figure 8.8; added comment on failure of the law of rectilinear diameters.

Version 3 July 2011 (531 pages)

Three PDF files now available with different combinations of uncolored or colored hyperlinks and narrow or wide page margins.
Added six new Biographical Sketches (Clapeyron, Giauque, Henry, Hess, Raoult, and van't Hoff), for an overall total of 16.

Version 4 March 2012 (533 pages)

Sections 2.2.1, 2.6.1, and 4.5.1: minor changes, some based on comments of Dr. John S. Denker.
Sections 2.6.2 and 3.1.1: added equation for relation between system energy and internal energy.
Section 3.4.2, last paragraph: minor revision.
Section 3.9: changed symbol for force due to internal friction.
Section 4.6.2: added paragraph about validity of expression for entropy change.
Section 4.6.4: added footnote.
Section 5.8: added equation for reversible electrical work.
Section 14.3.1: added alternative derivation of expression for the molar reaction Gibbs energy of a cell reaction.
Section 14.3.2: added paragraph about conditions for reaction equilibrium in a galvanic cell.

Version 5 May 2014 (532 pages)

Section 3.1.6: revised the description of thermal energy.
Section 3.7.1: removed statement implying that dissipative work necessarily approaches zero as the rate of change of the work coordinate approaches zero.
Section 5.2: added comment about "chemical work."

Version 6 February 2015 (532 pages)

Appendix B: values of fundamental physical constants updated to most recent recommended values.
Minor corrections throughout the book.

Versions 7 and 7a November and December 2015 (532 pages)

Version 8 October 2016 (533 pages)

Section 4.4: changed title to "The Second Law for Reversible Processes."
Reorganized the material in Sections 4.4.1 and 4.4.2.
Inserted new Section 4.4.3: "Alternative derivation of entropy as a state function."
Changed previous Section 4.4.3 to Section 4.4.4.
Section 4.5: changed title to "The Second Law for Irreversible Processes."

Version 9 May 2019 (534 pages)

Chapters 1 and 2 and Appendices A and B: revised to include the 2019 revision of the International System of Units.
Inserted new Section 3.2.2: "Reversibility and the surroundings."
Section 3.4.1: revised the theory of the effect of piston velocity on pressure at the piston.
Revised Section 3.9, "Irreversible Work and Internal Friction".

Version 9a October 2019 (534 pages)

Version 10 January 2020 (534 pages)

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