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Summary
Summary
Updated and revised, this highly successful text details the basic chemical principles required for modern studies of atmospheres, oceans, and Earth and planetary systems. This completely accessible introduction allows undergraduate and graduate students with little formal training in chemistry to grasp such fundamental concepts as chemical equilibria, chemical thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, solution chemistry, acid and base chemistry, oxidation-reduction reactions, and photochemistry. In the companion volume Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry (also to be published in May 2000), Peter Hobbs details atmospheric chemistry itself, including its applications to air pollution, acid rain, the ozone hole, and climate change. Together these two books offer an ideal introduction to atmospheric chemistry for a variety of disciplines.
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Hobbs provides a very practical understanding of physical chemistry not only for atmospheric science but for many other applications. He includes chemical principles, equilibria, thermodynamics, kinetics, solution chemistry, acid-base chemistry, oxidation-reduction reactions, and photochemistry. Solutions to numerical problems illustrating the topics are interspersed throughout the text. All possible states of reactants are discussed--gas, liquid, and solid--with particular attention to aqueous solutions, a major concern in atmospheric science. Various theories regarding definition and explanation of acid-base processes are presented. The pH scale is explained and discussed with regard to both rainwater and electrochemical cells. Photochemistry is used to discuss the depletion of stratospheric ozone. The appendixes contain useful text-related information and hints or solutions to exercises posed in the text. A good index is provided. Useful to all undergraduates in science. A. E. Staver; Northern Illinois University
Table of Contents
| 1 Chemical equilibrium |
| 2 Chemical thermodynamics |
| 3 Chemical kinetics |
| 4 Solution chemistry and aqueous equilibria |
| 5 Acids and bases |
| 6 Oxidation-reduction reactions |
| 7 Photochemistry |
| Appendices |
