1st part: The Activity in Classical Thermodynamics
Chapter 1: Thermodynamic systems
Chapter 2: Gibbs and Helmhotz energies
Chapter 3: Escaping tendency and molar Gibbs energy
Chapter 4 : Partial molar properties
Chapter 5: Chemical potential or partial molar Gibbs energy
Chapter 6: An overview of the notion of activity
Chapter 7: The concept of fugacity
Chapter 8: Ideal solutions
Chapter 9: Definitions of the activity
Chapter 10: Activity of a gaz
Chapter 11: Activities of non- electrolytes in solutions
Chapter 12:Activities of electrolytes: definitions
Chapter 13: Determination of the activity of non-electrolytes
Chapter 14: Determination of the activity of electrolytes
Chapter 15: Debye and Hückel ‘s relations
Chapter 16: Excess Gibbs energies and activities
Chapter 17: Chemical equilibrium constants : activities and Gibbs energies of reactions
Chapter 18: Derivation of thermodynamic equilibrium constants- pH and its measure
Chapter 19: General principles of calculations of ionic species concentrations in solutions
involving activities
2nd part: The Activity in Statistical Thermodynamics
Chapter 20: Statistical thermodynamics in brief
Chapter 21: Concept of ensembles and postulates
Chapter 22: The canonical ensemble: notion of distribution
Chapter 23: Thermodynamic quantities in the framework of the canonical ensemble
Chapter 24: Other ensembles
Chapter 25: Systems of molecules and subsystems independent distinguishable and
“indistinguishable”
Chapter 26: Perfect gases
Chapter 27: Classical statistical mechanics- Notion of configuration – Classical canonical
partition function <
Chapter 28: The configurational partition function – Molecular distribution functions
Chapter 29: The radial distribution function
Chapter 30: Radial distribution function and thermodynamic quantities- calculations of the
internal energy and of the pressure of a system
Chapter 31: Radial distribution function and calculation of the isothermal compressibility
coefficient of a system
Chapter 32: The chemical potential and the radial distribution function . General formal
introduction of the activity and of the activity coefficient
Chapter 33: Imperfect gases – The virial coefficients in terms of interaction potential
energies
Chapter 34: A statistical expression of the activity. A relation between it and the
concentration in the case of an imperfect gaz
Chapter 35: Activities of gases in a mixture of imperfect gases
Chapter 36: Chemical equilibria between gases and statistical thermodynamics
Chapter 37: Activity coefficients of gases
Chapter 38: Activities and concentrations of non-electrolytes in dilute liquid solutions –
McMillan- Mayer’s theory of their osmotic pressure
Chapter 39: A study of dilute solutions of non-electrolytes at constant pressure and
temperature
Chapter 40: The activity coefficients of solutes in binary non-electrolyte solutions
Chapter 41: Molecular distribution functions in binary mixtures
Chapter 42: The Kirkwood-Buff’s theory- Changes of chemical potentials of solutes with
their concentrations at constant pressure and temperature
Chapter 43: Expressions of the chemical potentials of the components of ideal solutions
of non- electrolytes
Chapter 44: Chemical potentials, activities and activity coefficients of the components
of a non- ideal solution of a non-electrolyte
Chapter 45: Expressions of the activities of non-electrolytes and of their coefficients
Chapter 46: More on the Debye-Hückel ‘s theory
Chapter 47: Distribution functions and the theory of electrolytes solutions
Chapter 48: The activity notion in retrospect.
Appendices
About Some Authors
Bibliography