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Motivating students to engage with physical chemistry through biological examples, this textbook demonstrates how the tools of physical chemistry can be used to illuminate biological questions. It clearly explains key principles and their relevance to life science students, using only the most straightforward and relevant mathematical tools. More than 350 exercises are spread throughout the chapters, covering a wide range of biological applications and explaining issues that students often find challenging. These, along with problems at the end of each chapter and end-of-term review questions, encourage active and continuous study. Over 130 worked examples, many deriving directly from life sciences, help students connect principles and theories to their own laboratory studies. Connections between experimental measurements and key theoretical quantities are frequently highlighted and reinforced. Answers to the exercises are included in the book. Fully worked solutions and answers to the review problems, password-protected for instructors, are available at www.cambridge.org/roussel.

Table of Contents

 

Preface

1. Orientation: what is physical chemistry about?

A note on graph axis labels and table headings

Part I. Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy:

2. A quick tour of quantum mechanical ideas

3. Spectroscopy

Part II. Thermodynamics:

4. Thermodynamics preliminaries

5. The first law

6. The second law of thermodynamics

7. Free energy

8. Chemical equilibrium and coupled reactions

9. Non-ideal behavior

10. Electrochemistry

Part III. Kinetics:

11. Basics of chemical kinetics

12. Initial rate experiments and simple empirical rate laws

13. Integrated rate laws

14. Complex reactions

15. Enzyme kinetics

16. Techniques for studying fast reactions

17. Factors that affect the rate constant

18. Diffusion and reactions in solution

Appendix A. End-of-term review problems

Appendix B. Answers to exercises

Appendix C. Standard thermodynamic properties at 298.15K and 1 bar

Appendix D. Standard reduction potentials at 298.15K

Appendix E. Physical properties of water

Appendix F. The SI system of units

Appendix G. Universal constants and conversion factors

Appendix H. Periodic table of the elements, with molar masses

Appendix I. Selected isotopic masses and abundances

Appendix J. Exponentials and logarithms

Appendix K. Review of integral calculus

Index.