December 2010
Intermediate to advanced
710 pages
23h 35m
English
2 Thermodynamic and Statistical Aspects of Intermolecular Forces
While this book is not primarily concerned with thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, it is nevertheless appropriate to begin by considering some fundamental thermodynamic and statistical principles without which a mere knowledge of interaction forces will not always be very meaningful. In this chapter we shall introduce a number of simple but important thermodynamic relations and then illustrate how these, when taken together with the strengths of intermolecular forces, determine the properties of a system of many molecules. Analyses of more complex “self-assembling” structures are considered in Part III.
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