"When asked to describe physical chemistry, the renowned chemist Gilbert Newton Lewis is purported to have responded: 'Physical chemistry is everything that is interesting!' In fact, physical chemists aim to develop a fundamental understanding at the molecular and atomic level of how materials behave and how chemical reactions occur, knowledge that is relevant in nearly every area of chemistry... Physical chemistry applies physics and math to problems that interest chemists, biologists, and engineers. Physical chemists use theoretical constructs and mathematical computations to understand chemical properties and describe the behavior of molecular and condensed matter..."
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