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Statistical Mechanics/Physical Chemistry Lecture Course
Part II: Physical Chemistry


This web site contains information on Physical Chemistry part of the Statistical Mechanics/Physical Chemistry lecture course. The information on Statistical Mechanics lectures can be found here.

Course Books:

Main text book:

Atkins 8ed, cover

Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula,
Physical Chemistry 8ed., Oxford University Press

Link to OUP online resource: http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780198700722/

Supplementary reading on binary phase diagrams:

Atkins 8ed, cover

William Calister and David Rethwisch
Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering: An Integrated Approach 3ed., Wiley 2008.


Schedule of Physical Chemistry Lectures

  Date Title Pages Exercises Assignment Assignment deadline
Lecture 1 13-Oct-2009
8:15am

Physical transformation of pure substances. Nucleation.

Atkins, Ch.4 *)

4.7a, 4.9a , 4.10a,

P4.5, P4.7 27-Oct-2009
Lecture 2 20-Oct-2009
9:00am
Simple mixtures. Colligative properties.
Atkins Ch.5 5.2a, 5.6a, 5.14a, E5.16b, P5.16 3-Nov-2009
Lecture 3 27-Oct-2009
9:00am

Activities. Binary phase diagrams. **

Atkins Ch.5
(p.158-166)
Atkins Ch.6

5.20a, 6.1a, 6.9b, 6.10b

E6.4b, P6.6 5-Nov-2009
Lecture 4 3-Nov-2009

Phase diagrams in materials science. Chemical Equilibrium..

Callister Ch10 p. 345-380
Atkins Ch.7

7.2b, 7.4b, 7.15a, 7.18a

Cal10.18, P7.8 17-Nov-2009
Lecture 5 17-Nov-2009
9am

Equilibrium Electrochemistry.

Atkins Ch.7 7.15(a), 7.16(a), 7.18(a) P7.16 24-Nov-2009
Lecture 6 19-Nov-2009
9am
Molecular motion in gases and liquids. Diffusion and Conductivity. Atkins Ch. 21 21.24a,
21.25a,
P24.36
P.21.8, P21.16 26-Nov-2009
Lecture 7 24-Nov-2009 The Rates of Chemical Reactions. Kinetics of Complex Reactions. Chemical Oscillations and Chaos. Atkins Ch.22-23 E22.10a
E22.16a
E23.1a
E22.7b
P23.3
1-Dec-2009

 

*) Essential concepts of thermodynamics are reviewed in Atkins Ch. 2 and 3. Please look in particular at pp.38-41, 49-55, 57-60, 78-80, 86-87 and 95-109.
**
) Please do not read Ch.6 further than p.185 prior to the lecture. You might confuse yourself!

 


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