Pathways to Modern Chemical Physics

• Main Author: Califano, Salvatore (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Physical chemistry.; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.; Physics.; Physical Chemistry.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.

In this historical volume Salvatore Califano traces the developments of ideas and theories in physical and theoretical chemistry throughout the 20th century. This seldom-told narrative provides details of topics from thermodynamics to atomic structure, radioactivity and quantum chemistry. Califano’s...

Table of Contents:

• Chemistry and Energy
• Kinetics and Chemical Equilibrium
• Matter and Electricity
• Chemical Physics Structural Techniques
• The Electron and the Atomic  Structure
• Radioactivity
• From Quantum Mechanics to Quantum  Chemistry
• The Mechanisms of Chemical Reactions.