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Week
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Topics
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Course Outcomes
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1
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INTRODUCTION: Aims, topics to be covered, textbooks, rules for attendance, etc.
Physical chemistry and main branches, chemical thermodynamics, definitions, units
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I
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2
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The perfect gases; the states of gases, the gas laws, Real gases; molecular interactions, the van der Waals equation, the principles of corresponding states
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I, II
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3
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The First Law; Basic concepts, work, heat and energy, the internal energy, expansion work, heat transactions,
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III, IV
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4
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Enthalpy, adiabatic changes, thermochemistry; standard enthalpy changes, temperature dependence of enthalpy changes,
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III, IV
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5
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State functions and exact differentials; changes in internal energy, The Joule-Thomson effect
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III, IV
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6
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The second law; the direction of spontaneous change, the dispersal of energy, entropy, entropy changes accompanying specific processes;
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V, VI
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7
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The third law, the helmholtz and gibbs energies; standard reaction gibbs energies, combining the first and the second laws; properties of internal energy and gibbs energy.
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III, V, VII
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8
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Physical transformations of pure substances, phase diagrams (three typical phase diagrams), phase stabilities and phase transitions
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III, V, VIII
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9
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MIDTERM
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10
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Simple mixtures; properties of solutions, activities
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III, VIII
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11
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Phase diagrams, phases, two component systems
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III, V, VIII
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12
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Phase diagrams, phases, two component systems
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III, V, VIII
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13
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Chemical equilibrium
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III, VIII
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14
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Phase diagrams, phases, two component systems
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V, VIII
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