Molecular
Physical Chemistry for EngineersMolecular
Physical Chemistry for Engineers"In summary,
the book is, overall, excellent."
—TCE Today, September 2008
"This
book fits exactly my needs for a textbook in teaching our course specifically
designed for Chem Engineering majors...I profoundly thank and congratulate the authors
for putting this book together. It is greatly needed, will be widely used,
and enormously appreciated."
—Professor D. Wayne Goodman, Texas A&M
Offering a distinct emphasis on the behavior of matter from the molecular viewpoint, this book is designed for a one-semester undergraduate course on physical chemistry for engineers and materials scientists. After a brief introductory review of the basic thermodynamic foundations, the book covers three core areas of physical chemistry -- quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, and kinetics. A final chapter provides case histories that use molecular modeling to solve engineering problems. The book includes a broad range of exercises throughout, and an Instructor's Manual is available for adopting professors.
About the Authors
John T. Yates, Jr.,
left, received
his B.S. degree from Juniata College and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from
M.I.T. He spent 19 years at the
National Bureau of Standards (NBS—now NIST) before joining the University of
Pittsburgh as the R. K. Mellon Professor of Chemistry in 1982. He
is the founding director of the University of Pittsburgh Surface Science Center.
His work in the field of surface science includes the use of
many types of surface measurement methods to develop new concepts about the
behavior of atoms and molecules adsorbed on metal, semiconductor, and insulator
surfaces. He is the author of over
650 research papers, editor and author of several specialized books dealing with
surface science, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He
has won many national and international awards for his research in surface
chemistry. He is active in both undergraduate and graduate teaching in
Chemistry. In 2007, he will become
a Professor and Shannon Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University
of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.
J. Karl Johnson, right,
received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Brigham Young University in chemical
engineering. He earned his Ph.D., also in chemical engineering, from Cornell
University. He was a National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council
Associate at the Naval Research Laboratory before joining the University of
Pittsburgh, where he is currently the William Kepler Whiteford Professor in the
Department
of Chemical Engineering. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the National
Energy Technology Laboratory and co-director of the Center for Molecular and
Materials Simulations at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests
include adsorption and transport of fluids in nanoporous materials, hydrogen
storage in porous media and metal hydrides, solubility of polymers in liquid and
supercritical carbon dioxide, and atomic-level processes on surfaces. He uses
the tools of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics to perform molecular
simulations of complex systems, giving detailed information that complements
experimental work and leading to predictions of new phenomena.
He is the author of over 70 research articles, several of which are joint
experimental/theoretical papers in collaboration with Professor Yates.
