# Book on Chemical Thermodynamics

1. Nov 29, 2014

### Avatrin

Hi
I am currently using a book called "An Introduction to Thermal Physics" by Daniel Schroeder, and there is a part of the book I am struggling with. So, I am looking for some other book that can help me learn the same stuff (to get a different perspective on the same material). For people familiar with the book, I am struggling with chapter five. For those who are not:

It is a chapter on free energy and chemical thermodynamics. The part I am struggling with is the chemical thermodynamics. For instance, the parts he uses one equation in particular are odd to me (for ideal gasses):

$$μ(T,P) = μ^0(T)+ kTln(\frac{P}{P^0})$$

He deduces this by using Gibbs free energy. I get the deduction, but I do not understand how to use it.

So, when he asks me to use this in exercises to understand what happens when, for instance, an inert gas is added to a system in which a reactive gas is in equilibrium with its liquid phase, I do not know what to do.

He uses the equation above to deduce Raoult's law.

I do not understand osmotic pressure, phase transitions of mixtures and Van't Hoff's formula.

2. Nov 29, 2014

### Bystander

Lewis & Randall, 2nd ed., revised by Pitzer & Brewer. Or, Irving Klotz.