Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry -- 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 [5.a] -- 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 [126] -- 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 [22] (see also Section 7.3, p. 143) -- 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 [5.a] -- 4.2 SYMBOLS, OPERATORS, AND FUNCTIONS [5.k] -- 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.