SE331. Basic Physical Chemistry
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States of matter and properties of gases: Description of states of matter, perfect gas equation of state, The Maxwell distribution of speeds, diffusion and effusion, real gases, intermolecular interactions, critical temperature, the van der Waals and the Virial equation of states.
- 12 Lectures
Thermodynamics: First law and its implications, various relations between q, w, U, H, T, Cp and Cv. Second law; entropy and free energy changes. Chemical potential phase equilibrium. Raoult's law, Henry's law and colligative properties. Chemical equilibrium. Electrochemisty, Debye-Huckel limiting law, electrochemical cells.
- 15 Lectures
Chemical Kinetics: Phenomenological kinetics- 1st, 22d and 3rd order laws. Methods of determining order of chemical reactions. Chain reactions and explosions, photochemical reactions and catalysis. Fast reactions, flow techniques, flash photolysis. Collision theory and fundamentals of activated complex theory.
- 15 Lectures
- Text Book
- The Elements of Physics Chemistry, by P.W. Atkins, 3rd Edition, Oxford, 2001.
- Concerned Department: Chemistry