Textbook: "Physical Chemistry 7th Edition", P. Atkins
The course will deal with the theory and applications of Classical Thermodynamics and Chemical Kinetics. The emphasis will be on understanding the physical significance behind the theory and the application of that theory to problems of chemical interest. You are expected to be familiar with elementary calculus, in particular, partial derivatives. To allow application to realistic problems you may be assigned problems requiring use of the computer. You will have access to the Chemistry Computer Laboratory and will be assigned a password allowing access to certain software including Word(general word processing), Kaleidagraph(graphing), Mathcad(mathematical manipulations) and Netscape(Web Browser). Information relating to the course will be posted to the web site for the course:
http://www.science.siu.edu/chemistry/chem462
Lecture Schedule:
The following outlines the topics to be covered in the order that they will be dealt with. All topics will not be addressed to the same level of detail in class. You are responsible for reading the text as it relates to the topics covered
- Perfect Gases: gas laws, kinetic theory of gases.
- Real Gases: molecular interactions, van der Waals equation, principle of corresponding states
- First Law: work, heat, energy, enthalpy, thermochemistry, state functions, temperature dependence of enthalpy, heat capacity, adiabatic expansion.
- Second Law: spontaneous change, entropy(reversible and irreversible processes), Third law, efficiency of heat engines, Helmholtz and Gibbs energy(properties), chemical potential, fugacity.
- Phase Rule: boundaries, phase diagrams, phase stability, phase transitions, simple mixtures, partial molar quantities, solutions, colligative properties, activity, phases, components, degrees of freedom, two and three component systems.
- Chemical Equilibrium: Gibbs energy minimum, response of equilibria to physical conditions
- Rates: experimental techniques, rate laws, temperature dependence, elementary reactions, unimolecular reactions.
- Chain Reactions: structure, explosions, photochemical, polymerization, catalysis, oscillation.
- Molecular Reaction Dynamics: collision theory, diffusion control, material balance, activated complex, transition state theory, reactive collisions, potential energy surfaces.
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