Understanding molecules: lectures on chemistry for physicists and engineers

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"Chemistry is a subject that many students with differing goals have to tackle. This unique general chemistry textbook is tailored to more mathematically-oriented engineering or physics students. The authors emphasize the principles underlying chemistry rather than chemistry itself and the almost encyclopedic completeness appearing in a common textbook of general chemistry is sacrificed for an emphasis to these principles"--  Read more... Abstract: "Chemistry is a subject that many students with differing goals have to tackle. This unique general chemistry textbook is tailored to more mathematically-oriented engineering or physics students. The authors emphasize the principles underlying chemistry rather than chemistry itself and the almost encyclopedic completeness appearing in a common textbook of general chemistry is sacrificed for an emphasis to these principles" Content: From the chemical system to the atomic nucleus -- Stoichiometry -- Nucleus and radioactivity -- Interlude of physics I: Quantum mechanics -- Atoms and the periodic table of the elements -- Chemical bond I: Lewis scheme -- Chemical bond II: Molecular orbitals -- Chemical bond III: complements -- Interlude of physics II: Thermodynamics -- Phase equilibria -- Chemical equilibrium -- Ionic equilibria in aqueous solutions -- Chemical kinetics -- Electrochemistry.