Les concepts de chimie physique

L'auteur nous fait découvrir, dans un langage simple et accessible, plus de 200 molécules de notre environnement quotidien, des plus simples aux plus complexes. Il montre comment un ou deux atomes de plus ou de moins peuvent transformer un combustible en poison, changer une couleur, rendre immangeable une substance comestible.

Le Parfum de la Fraise: Mystérieuses molécules

Molecular quantum mechanics, 4th edition

Quantum mechanics accounts for the behaviour of atoms and molecules. It therefore accounts for the properties of all matter and underlies both technologically advanced materials and the processes that take place within living organisms. Molecular Quantum Mechanics leads us through this absorbing yet challenging subject, exploring the fundamental physical principles that explain how all matter behaves. With the clarity of exposition and extensive learning features that have established the book as a leading text in the field, Molecular Quantum Mechanics takes us from the foundations of quantum mechanics, through quantum models of atomic and molecular electronic structure, and on to discussions of spectroscopy, the electric and magnetic properties of molecules, and the events that take place when molecules react during collisions. New to this Edition : New Mathematical background sections provide extended accounts of the subject's key mathematical concepts ; New end-of-chapter Exercises complement the Problems to help you put your learning into practice ; An increase in the use of Brief illustrations, and a completely revised artwork programme, make the book a more effective learning resource than ever before ; Appendices redistributed as Further information sections at the ends of chapters, to bring these additional supportive materials close to the chapters to which they most closely relate ; Heavily rewritten chapter on computational chemistry captures the latest advances in this field in a uniquely accessible manner.

Molecular Quantum Mechanics

From award-nominated and critically-acclaimed author Peter Atkins, screenwriter of Hellraiser II-IV and Wishmaster, comes a new collection of exquisitely rendered nightmares. What is that unearthly howling coming from a small suburban house in Liverpool? Why would a headless corpse in a Manhattan penthouse be sitting so calmly with its legs crossed? What is it about that unusual trinket bought at an estate sale that has an agent of a covert government department so interested?The answers to these and many other unsettling questions await you within the pages of the extraordinary All Our Hearts Are Ghosts..."The writing is contemporary and hip, yet beautifully lyrical." - Simon Marshall-Jones, This Is Horror"The excellent-and enviably original-Peter Atkins." - Ramsey Campbell"An uncanny ability to mix unflinching violence with poetic melancholy." - John Palisano, President of the Horror Writers Association"One of the best writers of horror and dark fantasy to come along inthe last twenty years ... a great stylist with a truly original voice." - Ian Hunter, The British Fantasy Society Book Review"Charming, sly, and seriously scary" - Glen Hirshberg

All Our Hearts Are Ghosts

Chimie Physique. Tome 1

Chemical principles

Atkins' Physical Chemistry , 8th revised edition

The exceptional quality of previous editions has been built upon to make the tenth edition of Atkins' Physical Chemistry even more closely suited to the needs of both students and lecturers. The text has been enhanced with additional learning features and maths support, and has been radically restructured into short focussed topics. An innovative use of pedagogy is combined with rigorous but accessible coverage of the subject to ensure Atkins' Physical Chemistry tenth edition remains the textbook of choice for studying physical chemistry. New to this edition : significant reorganization of the material within each chapter into discrete 'topics' makes the text more readable for students and more flexible for instructors ; expanded maths support includes new 'Chemist's toolkits' which provide students with succinct reminders of mathematical concepts and techniques ; three questions at the beginning of each topic engage and focus the attention of the reader : 'Why do you need to know this material ?', 'What is the key idea ?', and 'What do you need to know already ?' ; New checklists of key concepts at the end of each topic reinforce the main take-home messages in each section.

Atkins' Physical Chemistry

La merveilleuse complexité de l'Univers émerge de plusieurs lois et de constantes fondamentales qui en déterminent la forme, l'échelle, le destin et la beauté. Mais d'où viennent-elles ? Peter Atkins explore l'origine de la conservation de l'énergie, de l'électromagnétisme, de la mécanique classique et quantique et de la thermodynamique, en montrant comment toutes les lois découlent de symétries profondes. Avec son esprit et son érudition caractéristiques, il décrit comment les lois de la nature peuvent surgir de pas grand-chose. Ou peut-être de rien du tout.

Les grandes lois de l'univers - Les origines des lois de la nature

Parmi les centaines de lois scientifiques, on peut en relever quelques unes - à compter sur les doigts de la main - en l'Occurrence quatre principes très simples, qui contrôlent et imposent des limites à tout ce qui se passe dans l'Univers. Ces principes apportent un éclairage nouveau à des concepts tels que l'énergie et la température, tout en expliquant pourquoi chaque chose se produit comme on l'observe et avec le devenir que l'on sait. Dans cet exposé qui se veut succinct, Peter Atkins explique les principes de la thermodynamique et ce qu'ils impliquent. Ces quatre lois, dont le caractère est incontournable, sous-tendent tout ce qui se passe aussi bien dans le présent que dans le futur.

Les 4 grands principes qui régissent l'univers

Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central ideas of contemporary science, Peter Atkins celebrates the effectiveness of Galileo's symbolic finger for revealing the nature of our universe, our world, and ourselves. Galileo's Finger takes the reader on an extraordinary journey that embraces the ten central ideas of current science. "By a great idea," writes Peter Atkins, "I mean a simple concept of great reach, an acorn of an idea that ramifies into a great oak tree of application, a spider of an idea that can spin a great web and draw in a feast of explanation and elucidation." With wit, charm, and patience, Atkins leads the reader to an understanding of the essence of the whole of science, from evolution and the emergence of complexity, to entropy, the spring of all change in the universe; from energy, the universalization of accountancy, to symmetry, the quantification of beauty; and from cosmology, the globalization of reality, to spacetime, the arena of all action.  "My intention is for us to travel to the high ridges of science," Atkins tells us. "As the journey progresses and I lead you carefully to the summit of understanding, you will experience the deep joy of illumination that science alone provides." Galileo's Finger breaks new ground in communicating science to the general reader. Here are the essential ideas of today's science, explained in magical prose.

Le doigt de Galilée - Dix grandes idées pour comprendre la Science

Le manuel de référence qui permet aux étudiants de premier cycle universitaire d'acquérir les bases de la chimie. L'objectif principal de ce livre est d'apporter aux étudiants de premier cycle toutes les bases de la chimie. Les auteurs montrent comment construire des modèles, les affiner systématiquement à la lumière des apports expérimentaux, les exprimer qualitativement et quantitativement. A partir de la structure de l'atome, les auteurs développent un cheminement logique vers les propriétés des molécules les plus complexes et leurs propriétés. L'organisation de l'ouvrage en 10 focus (chapitres) regroupant les thèmes principaux permet une grande souplesse dans la lecture et dans l'assimilation des connaissances. L'ouvrage est illustré de plus de 1 500 schémas et photos. De nombreuses aides pédagogiques sont proposées : - plus de 600 Auto-tests, - environ 250 Boîtes à outils - plus de 2 000 exercices et problèmes résolus guident l'étudiant dans l'acquisition des connaissances. Compléments en ligne : Corrections détaillées auto-test Les principales techniques utilisées en chimie Les annexes

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