E Richard Cohen & Bertil Holström 
Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry [PDF ebook] 

CONTENTS: PREFACE; HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION; 1 PHYSICAL QUANTITIES AND UNITS: 1.1 Physical quantities and quantity calculus; 1.2 Base quantities and derived quantities ; 1.3 Symbols for physical quantities and units; 1.3.1 General rules for symbols for quantities; 1.3.2 General rules for symbols for units; 1.4 Use of the words “extensive”, “intensive”, “specific”, and “molar”; 1.5 Products and quotients of physical quantities and units; 1.6 The use of italic and Roman fonts for symbols in scientific publications; 2 TABLES OF PHYSICAL QUANTITIES: 2.1 Space and time; 2.2 Classical mechanics; 2.3 Electricity and magnetism; 2.4 Quantum mechanics and quantum chemistry; 2.4.1 Ab initio Hartree-Fock self-consistent field theory (ab initio SCF); 2.4.2 Hartree-Fock-Roothaan SCF theory, using molecular orbitals expanded as linear combinations of atomic-orbital basis functions (LCAO-MO theory); 2.5 Atoms and molecules; 2.6 Spectroscopy; 2.6.1 Symbols for angular momentum operators and quantum numbers; 2.6.2 Symbols for symmetry operators and labels for symmetry species; 2.6.3 Other symbols and conventions in optical spectroscopy; 2.7 Electromagnetic radiation; 2.7.1 Quantities and symbols concerned with the measurement of absorption intensity; 2.7.2 Conventions for absorption intensities in condensed phases; 2.8 Solid state; 2.8.1 Symbols for planes and directions in crystals; 2.9 Statistical thermodynamics; 2.10 General chemistry; 2.10.1 Other symbols and conventions in chemistry; 2.11 Chemical thermodynamics; 2.11.1 Other symbols and conventions in chemical thermodynamics; 2.12 Chemical kinetics and photochemistry; 2.12.1 Other symbols, terms, and conventions used in chemical kinetics; 2.13 Electrochemistry; 2.13.1 Sign and notation conventions in electrochemistry; 2.14 Colloid and surface chemistry; 2.14.1 Surface structure; 2.15 Transport properties; 2.15.1 Transport characteristic numbers: Quantities of dimension one; 3 DEFINITIONS AND SYMBOLS FOR UNITS: 3.1 The International System of Units (SI) ; 3.2 Names and symbols for the SI base units; 3.3 Definitions of the SI base units; 3.4 SI derived units with special names and symbols; 3.5 SI derived units for other quantities; 3.6 SI prefixes and prefixes for binary multiples; 3.7 Non-SI units accepted for use with the SI; 3.8 Coherent units and checking dimensions; 3.9 Fundamental physical constants used as units; 3.9.1 Atomic units; 3.9.2 The equations of quantum chemistry expressed in terms of reduced quantities using atomic units; 3.10 Dimensionless quantities; 3.10.1 Fractions (relative values, yields, and efficiencies); 3.10.2 Deprecated usage; 3.10.3 Units for logarithmic quantities: neper, bel, and decibel; 4 RECOMMENDED MATHEMATICAL SYMBOLS: 4.1 Printing of numbers and mathematical symbols; 4.2 Symbols, operators, and functions; 5 FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICAL CONSTANTS: 6 PROPERTIES OF PARTICLES, ELEMENTS, AND NUCLIDES: 6.1 Properties of selected particles; 6.2 Standard atomic weights of the elements 2005; 6.3 Properties of nuclides; 7 CONVERSION OF UNITS: 7.1 The use of quantity calculus; 7.2 Conversion tables for units; 7.3 The esu, emu, Gaussian, and atomic unit systems in relation to the SI; 7.4 Transformation of equations of electromagnetic theory between the ISQ(SI) and Gaussian forms; 8 UNCERTAINTY: 8.1 Reporting uncertainty for a single measured quantity; 8.2 Propagation of uncertainty for uncorrelated measurements; 8.3 Reporting uncertainties in terms of confidence intervals; 9 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS: 10 REFERENCES: 10.1 Primary sources; 10.2 Secondary sources; 11 GREEK ALPHABET: 12 INDEX OF SYMBOLS: 13 SUBJECT INDEX: NOTES: PRESSURE CONVERSION FACTORS: NUMERICAL ENERGY CONVERSION FACTORS: IUPAC PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS;