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 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	7040 (v.6) Chemistry 102 or any previous version AND 7063 (v.6) Mathematics 102 or any previous version
Syllabus:	Thermodynamic systems and properties. Energy, temperature, heat and work. Reversible and irreversible processes. First Law. Enthalpy and thermochemistry. Entropy and the Second Law. Interpretation and calculations of entropy. Entropy changes accompanyingspecific processes. Third Law. Free energy. Chemical equilibrium and spontaneous reactions. Thermodynamic relationships. Response of equilibria to pressure and temperature. Free energy and the chemical potential. Ideal solutions. Raoult's and Henry's Laws. Colligative properties of solutions. Phases, components and degrees of freedom. The Phase Rule. Vapour pressure diagrams and distillation. Liquid/liquid and liquid/solid phase diagrams. Eutectics. First and second-order reactions. Reaction half-lives and determination of reaction order. Steady-state approximation and rate-determining step. Reaction and chain mechanisms. Lindemann mechanism of first-order reactions. Activation energy and Arrhenius equation. Hard sphere collision theory. Collision theorycontinued, transition state theory and activated complex. Reaction coordinates. Comparison of collision and transition state theories. Contour diagrams and potential energy surfaces. Kinetics and equilibrium.
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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
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

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