Courses Handbook 2009

8026 (v.4) Physical Chemistry 202


Area: Department of Applied Chemistry
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 6.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 6 Hours Fortnightly
Prerequisite(s): 7040 (v.6) Chemistry 102 or any previous version
AND
    10926 (v.5) Mathematics 103 or any previous version
    OR
    7062 (v.6) Mathematics 101 or any previous version
    OR
    307536 (v.2) Engineering Mathematics 120 or any previous version
    OR
    307535 (v.2) Engineering Mathematics 110 or any previous version
Syllabus: Thermodynamic systems and properties. Energy, temperature, heat and work. First Law. Enthalpy and thermochemistry. Entropy and the Second Law. Third Law. Free energy. Chemical equilibrium and spontaneous reactions. Thermodynamic relationships. Phases, components and degrees of freedom. The Phase Rule. Liquid/liquid and liquid/solid phase diagrams. Zero, first and second-order reactions. Reaction half-lives and determination of reaction order. Steady-state approximation. Reaction mechanisms. Activation energy and Arrhenius equation. Hard sphere collision theory. Transition state theory.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 010500 Chemical Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*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
2009 Bentley Campus Semester 2 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

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