Trapp C., Cady M., Guinta C. Atkins' Physical Chemistry: Instructor's Solutions Manual to Accompany

9th ed. — Oxford, University Press. 2010. — 576 pages.This manual provides detailed solutions to all the end-of-chapter (b) Exercises, and to the even-numbered Discussion Questions and Problems. Solutions to Exercises and Problems carried over from previous editions have been reworked, modified, or corrected when needed.
The solutions to some of the Exercises and many of the Problems in this edition relied more heavily on the mathematical, graphical, and molecular modelling software that is now generally accessible to physical chemistry students. This is particularly true for some of the new Problems that specifically request the use of such software for their solutions. We used the following software for many of the solutions in this manual: Excel for spreadsheet calculations and graphing, and Mathcad for mathematical calculations and the plotting of the results. When a quantum-chemical calculation or molecular modelling process has been called for, we have often provided the solution with PC Spartan Pro because of its common availability. However, the majority of the Exercises and many of the Problems can still be solved with a modern hand-held scientific calculator.
In general, we have adhered rigorously to the rules for significant figures in displaying the final answers. However, when intermediate answers are shown, they are often given with one more figure than would be justified by the data. These excess digits are indicated with an overline.
The solutions in this manual have been carefully cross-checked for errors not only by ourselves, but also very thoroughly by Valerie Walters, who made many helpful suggestions for improvement. We expect that most errors have been eliminated, but would be grateful to any readers who bring any remaining ones to our attention.