8025 (v.4) Physical Chemistry 201

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Area:	Department of Applied Chemistry
Contact Hours:	6.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	7040 (v.5) Chemistry 102 or any previous version AND 7063 (v.5) Mathematics 102 or any previous version
Chemical Thermodynamics - laws of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes, enthalpy, entropy, free energy. Equilibrium. Chemical potential. Simple mixtures, ideal and non-ideal solutions, colligative properties. Phase changes, phase rule and phase diagrams. Reaction kinetics - derivation of rate equations and interpretation. Multistep and chain reactions, fast reactions and their measurement. Reaction mechanisms.