312485 (v.1) Chemical Energetics and Kinetics 211

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 Fortnightly
Laboratory:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
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).
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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

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