This novel textbook is an introduction to modern physical chemistry. Emphasis is placed on the very ideas of this science. The material is presented in a rather concise manner, but at the same time the author sought to stay up to the requirements of both the rigor of the presentation and a fairly representative amount of information. The author set out to convey to the reader the most important ideas of modern physical chemistry, believing that all the necessary details of each specific section are now easy to find on the Internet. At the same time, the scope of the provided information and the totality of the formulaic material are sufficient to solve the main set of tasks related to the study of this course.The addressees of the textbook are students studying chemistry, physics, and engineering, and also researchers using physicochemical methods, employees in chemical industries, and teachers wanting to improve their knowledge in these topics. It can be used by the readers with a not so high background; the mathematics and physics here are simple and demand the level corresponding to the first course of the technical university.
Gamburg Yuliy D., chemistry professor in A. N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russia, was born in the former Soviet Union in the days of WWII. He is a Holocaust survivor; together with his parents, he escaped from the Nazis in Central Asia. He graduated from the famous Mendeleev University, Russia, and completed his doctoral and postdoctoral studies at the Frumkin Institute. He taught Physical chemistry, Electrochemistry, and Materials Science at Mendeleev University, as well as chemistry and physics at school. He has published more than 200 works, including patents and 6 review articles in various branches of electrochemistry. Among his publications are "New Ideas and Results in Electrochemical Crystallization" in "Metal Electrodeposition" (2005), 10 books and textbooks, in particular, a book jointly with Prof G. Zangari "Theory and Practice of Metal Electrodeposition" (2011) which is one of the most cited in the field. His book "The Fundamentals of Electrochemistry" (Cambridge Scholars, 2023) was recognized by BookAuthority as one of the best electrochemistry books.
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