Physical Chemistry, 4th Edition

Fourth EditionJohnWiley&Sons, of 1942 Professor of ChemistryMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyProfessor Emeritus of ChemistryMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyProfessor of ChemistryMassachusetts Institute of Chemistry ACQUISITIONS EDITORD eborah BrennanSENIOR PRODUCTION EDITORP atricia McFaddenSENIOR MARKETING MANAGERR obert SmithSENIOR DESIGNERK evin MurphyNEW MEDIA EDITORM artin BateyThis book was set in 10/12 Times Roman by Publication Services, Inc. and printed and bound byHamilton Printing. The cover was printed by Lehigh Press, book is printed on acid-free 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in anyform or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise,except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, withouteither the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of theappropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center Inc.

The second law of thermodynamics deals with the natural direction of processes and the question of whether a given chemical reaction can occur by itself. The second law was formulated initially in terms of the efficiencies of heat engines, but it also leads to the definition of entropy, which is important

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