The development of molecular physics and physical chemistry cannot be understood without a knowledge of the work of Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals. His doctoral thesis of 1873 was the first theory of liquids and gases in which the essential differences and similarities of these two phases were interpreted in terms of the properties of the constituent molecules. This view contradicted the work of Mach, Ostwald, Duhem and other "energeticists" and provides the foundation for our current understanding of fluids. In the years since the end of World War II, there has been a re-appraisal of van der Waals's work, which has established his historic place as one of the founders of molecular science. This is the only biography of Johannes van der Waals and should be read by anyone with an interest in the history of physics and chemistry, and its most important innovator.

Van der Waals and Molecular Science

Biographies & Memoirs

Kipnis, A. Ya.

Yavelov, B. E.

Rowlinson, J.S.

Professionals & Academics

Oxford University Press

Available in paperback for the first time, this is a complete examination of the molecular origins of surface phenomena. Comprehensive in scope, the book traces the history of ideas in this area and presents a detailed discussion of modern theories and an assessment of their present state. The treatise emphasizes the liquid-gas surface, but includes two authoritative chapters of liquid-liquid surfaces. Now thoroughly revised, this text includes the latest information on important developments that have occurred in recent years. Handy cross referencing makes the volume easily accessible and of particular value to theorists and industrial scientists who need to understand or predict the properties of interfaces in fluid-phase equilibria.

Molecular Theory of Capillarity (International Series of Monographs on Chemistry)

Science & Math

Widom, B.

Chemistry

Available in paperback for the first time, this is a complete examination of the molecular origins of surface phenomena. Comprehensive in scope, the book traces the history of ideas in this area and presents a detailed discussion of modern theories and an assessment of their present state. The treatise emphasizes the liquid-gas surface, but includes two authoritative chapters of liquid-liquid surfaces. Now thoroughly revised, this text includes the latest information on important developments that have occurred in recent years. Handy cross referencing makes the volume easily accessible and of particular value to theorists and industrial scientists who need to understand or predict the properties of interfaces in fluid-phase equilibria.

This textbook covers the themodynamics needed by chemical engineers both in their engineering and in their chemistry; it is intended for use in all undergraduate and some graduate-level courses. The authors emphasize a rigorous yet concise presentation of the fundamental chemical concepts governing the behavior of single and multicomponent mixtures, including phase and chemical equilibria. In the application of these concepts, consideration is given to the presentation of experimentally measured thermodynamic properties, and to their prediction for real fluids and their mixtures using methods founded on statistical mechanics. Several applications involving the transfer of heat and work that are of special importance to chemical engineers are studied in detail to show the use of thermodynamics in improving performance. The book is written in SI units and contains worked examples, exercises, and problems.  J. S. Rowlinson is Dr. Lee's Professor of Physical Chemistry in the University of Oxford. K. E. Bett and G. Saville are Lecturers in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College, University of London.

Thermodynamics for Chemical Engineers

Engineering & Transportation

Bett, K. E

Saville, G.

Engineering

MIT Press]

This textbook covers the thermodynamics needed by chemical engineers both in their engineering and in their chemistry; it is intended for use in all undergraduate and some graduate-level courses. The authors emphasize a rigorous yet concise presentation of the fundamental chemical concepts governing the behavior of single and multicomponent mixtures, including phase and chemical equilibria. In the application of these concepts, consideration is given to the presentation of experimentally measured thermodynamic properties, and to their prediction for real fluids and their mixtures using methods founded on statistical mechanics. Several applications involving the transfer of heat and work that are of special importance to chemical engineers are studied in detail to show the use of thermodynamics in improving performance. The book is written in SI units and contains worked examples, exercises, and problems.

Thermodynamics for Chemical Engineers (MIT Press Classics)

Physics

Liquids and Liquid Mixtures, Third Edition explores the equilibrium properties of liquids and liquid mixtures and relates them to the properties of the constituent molecules using the methods of statistical thermodynamics. Topics covered include the critical state, fluid mixtures at high pressures, and the statistical thermodynamics of fluids and mixtures. This book consists of eight chapters and begins with an overview of the liquid state and the thermodynamic properties of liquids and liquid mixtures, including vapor pressure and heat capacities. The discussion then turns to the thermodynamics of and inequalities at the critical point; measurement of thermodynamic functions in the critical region; experimental values of the critical exponents; and scaling of the free energy. The change of thermodynamic functions with composition is the subject of the next two chapters, followed by an analysis of fluid mixtures at high pressures. The final chapter is devoted to the statistical thermodynamics of fluids and mixtures, paying particular attention to the thermodynamic properties in terms of the forces between the molecules; the balance of intermolecular potentials between like and unlike molecules; and phase behavior. This monograph will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering.

Liquids and Liquid Mixtures

Butterworth-Heinemann

Liquids and Liquid Mixtures: Butterworths Monographs in Chemistry

Butterworth Scientific

Tracing the history of thought on the molecular origins of surface phenomena, this volume offers a critical and detailed examination and assessment of modern theories. The opening chapters survey the earliest efforts to recapture these phenomena by using crude mechanical models of liquids as well as subsequent quasi-thermodynamic methods. A discussion of statistical mechanics leads to the application of results in mean-field approximation to some tractable but artificial model systems. More realistic models are portrayed both by computer simulation and by approximation to some portrayed both by computer simulation and by approximations of the precise statistical equations. Emphasis throughout the text is consistently placed on the liquid-gas surface, with a focus on liquid-liquid surfaces in the final two chapters. Students, teachers, and professionals will find in this volume a comprehensive account of the field: theorists will encounter novel problems to which to apply the basic principles of thermodynamics, and industrial scientists will deem it an invaluable guide to understanding and predicting the properties of the interfacial region. Its extensive cross-referencing effectively assembles many diverse topics and theoretical approaches, making this book indispensable to all those engaged in research into interfaces in fluid-phase equilibria.

Molecular Theory of Capillarity (Dover Books on Chemistry)

Biological Sciences

Dover Publications

Cohesion: A Scientific History of Intermolecular Forces

Why does matter stick together? Why do gases condense to liquids, and liquids to solids? This book is a detailed historical account of how some of the leading scientists of the past three centuries have tried to answer these questions. Organized into four broad periods of advances in understanding, the first three are associated with Newton, Laplace and van der Waals, while the fourth gives an account of the successful use in the twentieth century of quantum and statistical mechanics to resolve most of the remaining problems.

Cambridge University Press

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Van der Waals and Molecular Science

Molecular Theory of Capillarity (International Series of Monographs on Chemistry)

Molecular Theory of Capillarity (International Series of Monographs on Chemistry)

Thermodynamics for Chemical Engineers

Thermodynamics for Chemical Engineers (MIT Press Classics)

Liquids and Liquid Mixtures

Liquids and Liquid Mixtures: Butterworths Monographs in Chemistry

Molecular Theory of Capillarity (Dover Books on Chemistry)

Cohesion: A Scientific History of Intermolecular Forces

Cohesion: A Scientific History of Intermolecular Forces