Syllabus
Title
Physical Chemistry II
Course Description
Further development of thermodynamic equations and their applications to mass changes, chemical potential, chemical equilibria, transport properties and advanced phase equilibria. Use of partial differentials and development of Maxwell’s relations will also be covered.
Prerequisite
CHEM 2103 or BIOC 2300
MATH 1005 or MATH 2007
Grading Scheme
The laboratory is worth 30% of your final mark. The other 70% is split up as follows:
Assignments 15%
First in-term exam 15%
Second in-term exam 20%
Final exam 50%
Laboratory
The lab is run by Daniel Sun, and he has an extensive website about it on CuLearn.
Exams
This is the equation sheet provided on all exams
Text
To be announced
Topics
- Chemical Kinetics
- Instantaneous rate, initial rate (35.1 – 35.3)
- Reaction mechanisms (35.4)
- Integrated rate laws (35.5)
- Sequential and parallel reactions (35.7 – 35.8)
- The Arrhenius equation and activation energy (35.9)
- Equilibrium reactions (35.10)
- Reaction mechanisms (36.1 – 36.3)
- Catalysis (36.4)
Practice Exam I
- Phase Diagrams and Phase Changes
- Phase diagrams
- Phase changes
- The phase rule
- Stabilities of the phases
- Phase diagrams and the phase rule
- The Clausius-Clapeyron equation
- Vapour pressure dependence on applied pressure
- Two-component phase diagrams
Practice Exam II
- Ideal and Real Solutions
- Ideal solutions
- Chemical potential in gas and liquid phases
- Ideal binary solutions
- T-x diagrams and distillation
- Gibbs-Duhem equation
- Colligative properties
- Real solutions
- Activity coefficients
- Henry’s Law, Raoult’s Law in dilute solutions
- Spectroscopy
- General features of spectroscopy
- Rotational spectroscopy
- Diatomic vibrational spectroscopy
- Polyatomic vibrational spectroscopy
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Caveat
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