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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

312485 (v.1) Chemical Energetics and Kinetics 211

Note

Tutition Patterns

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Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: Department of Chemistry
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 6.0
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Fortnightly
Laboratory: 1 x 4 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 7039 (v.5) Chemistry 101 or any previous version
AND
7040 (v.6) Chemistry 102 or any previous version
Syllabus: Energetics and Thermodynamics: Systems and properties, Energy, temperature and heat, Enthalpy and the First Law, Entropy and the Second Law, The Third Law, Free energy, Equilibrium and Chemical Potential (12 lectures). Kinetics: Rate of reactions and rate equations, First, second and third order kinetics, The Isolation Method, Activation energy and the Arrhenius equation, Mechanisms, steady state approximation, Collision theory and transition state theory. (6 lectures) Heterogeneous Processes: Surfaces, Adsorption and adsorption isotherms, Rate of reaction – activation limited and mass transport limited. (6 lectures).
Field of Education: 010500 Chemical Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External