Textbook of Physical Chemistry (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Textbook of Physical Chemistry This textbook is intended primarily for the use of classes beginning the subject of Physical Chemistry. In the preparation of the text I have endeavored to keep in mind that the presentation is to students who meet the subject matter for the first time, and that they are to acquire a broad foundation for their subsequent work. As some time intervenes between the elementary courses in which the fundamental ideas of chemistry are presented and the time at which the work in Physical Chemistry is given, it is found that a short review of these fundamental concepts is necessary in order to have the student properly oriented as to the relationship of his elementary work and that which is usually incorporated in a course in Physical Chemistry. That this is absolutely necessary is the experience of most teachers, and the result can be attained more quickly by briefly restating this fundamental matter in a form in which it can subsequently be...