CHM222A - Basic Physical Chemistry
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3-0-0-9
Course Contents
- Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics: Equilibrium, State Functions, Temperature, Equations of State.
- First Law of Thermodynamics: Work, Heat, Internal Energy, Heat Capacity, Concept of Enthalpy.
- Second Law of Thermodynamics: Reversible and Irreversible Process, Heat Engines, Carnot Cycle, Different statements of the Second Law, Spontaneous Change, Entropy.
- Third Law of Thermodynamics: Concept of the absolute zero temperature.
- Free Energy and Standard States: Free energies and Thermodynamic potentials, Legendre Transforms, Equilibrium and Non Equilibrium, Chemical Potentials, Free Energy, Standard States, Reaction Thermodynamics, Equilibrium Constant.
- Equilibrium Thermodynamics: Chemical Potential of Mixtures, Phase Equilibrium, Phase Rule, Clapeyron Equation, Phase Diagram.
- Real Gases: Equations of State, Phase Transitions.
- Solutions: Molarity, Partial Molar Quantities, Mixing, Ideal Solutions, Non Ideal Solutions, Electrolytes, Ionic activity and the Debye Hueckel Theory, the Nernst Equation, Colligative properties, Multi component phase diagrams.
- Kinetic Theory of Gases and Transport Processes.
- Reaction Kinetics: Reaction Rates, Rate Laws, Reaction Mechanisms, Applications
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Books and References
P. W. Atkins and Julio de Paula, Physical Chemistry
I. N. Levine, Physical Chemistry
R. J. Silbey, R. A. Alberty, and M. G. Bawendi, Physical Chemistry