Since a majority of the cited references are to just two journals, it has seemed worthwhile to abbreviate the title of the JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION as JCE, and the title of the American Journal of Physics as AJP. Standard abbreviations of journal titles have been used throughout this resource letter with two notable exceptions.
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For full addresses of publishers, consult the Annual Book List appearing in the September, 1964, issue of J. Signifies that that work is available in an inexpensive paperback edition. In the following tabulation of sources, the symbol "pb." following the name of the publisher of a book Similarly, one looks for simple experiments that can be made effectively with the unsophisticated equipment likely to be (or to become) available in the laboratory of the freshman chemistry course-or within the scope of the demonstration facilities available in such a course. Pursuing this line, one looks primarily for methods of presentation less demanding of mathematical sophistication than, say, the highly formal and abstract approach of CarathBodory.
Thus a large fraction of the following bibliography is made up of those modest publications that do no more than offersimple presentations of difficult points: these are the papers most likely to help the novice chemist (and his teacher when, as is now often the case, thermodynamics is taught by one not himself professionally concerned with that subject). What is likely to be most helpful, then, is not a catalog of recent research papers on advanced points in thermodynamic theory but, on the contrary, papers that help us to make a more effective presentation of the basic subject and/or a more effective illustration of its manifold chemical applications. Thus any of a variety of excellent standard texts can and do offer the entire substance of the subject in well worked-out forms. Having undergone little fundamental change since the monumental work of Lewis and Randall some 40 years ago. At the most elementary level, modern chemical thermodynamics is a comparatively ancient subject. Due to these omissions, teachers and students in standard junior-year courses in physical chemistry will find the present survey incomplete: nevertheless, i t is believed that the large majority of the items cited hereafter have substantial relevance to such courses. Statistical thermodynamics has been regarded as fallmg under this last head and, for the most part, is represented here only by relatively qualitative considerations that may usefully supplement an elementary presentation of classical thermodynamics. Probably one can also exclude detailed consideration of the complexities of non-ideal systems (e.g., fugacities, activities, and the lice), as well as a multitude of other topics (e.g., extended treatment of the relations of partial molal quantities) likely to he better treated a t a more advanced level. Acting on this restriction one can, for example, exclude consideration of the extraordinary phenomena of lowtemperature physics, the complexities of phenomena around the critical point, the thermodynamics of fields (electromagnetic and otherwise), and a variety of other thermodynamic topics of interest primarily to the physicist. The operative limitation in the present case is a restriction to those aspects of thermodynamics likely to be of most concern to students in, and teachers of, introductory college chemistry courses. A resource survey of manageable size becomes possible only when one has severely limited the area of thermodynamics to be surveyed. Thermodynamics is an immense subject, with a correspondinglyimmense literature. This survey is conducted with a view to meeting the necessity, by ameliorating the difficulties of that task. very difficult task, but it is becoming a necessity. Yet the above statement can easily be converted into a proposition of lively current interest, by changing just one word: The teaching of thermodynamics in a beginning course in college chemistry is s. In 1943 a paper in THIS JOURNAL' began: "The teachmg of thermodynamics in a beginning course in physical chemistry is a very difficult task, but it is becoming a necessity." Perhaps even in 1943 the author might better have written not "is becoming" hut rather "has become" certainly today the proposition is no longer open to doubt. Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts
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