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Course Schedule Details

  Wednesday September 15 
    General class information 
    What is Physical Chemistry? 
    Assignment: 1
 
  Thursday September 16 
    Microscopic and macroscopic properties 
    What is equilibrium? 
    Calculation of energy and work 
    The first postulate of thermodynamics 
    Master Copy given 
    To read: Callen pp. 2-25

 
  Wednesday September 22 
    2 hours seminar 
    Calculations of work, energy and heat 
    Assignment: 2
 
  Thursday September 23
    2 hours seminar 
    Entropy: second and third postulates of thermodynamics 
    To read: Callen pp. 2-33 
    Assignment: 3

 
  Wednesday September 29 
    The conditions of equilibrium 
    Properties of the entropy function 
    Calculating equilibrium properties: 
      the basic problem of thermodynamics 
    To read: Callen pp. 2-33 
    Assignment: 4
 
  Thursday September 30
    Entropy & energy-based equations of state 
    Pressure, temperature and chemical potential 
    Use of the fundamental equations to calculate equilibria 
    Thermal equilibrium in isolated and adiabatic systems
    To read: Callen pp. 30-49. 
    Assignment: 5

 
  Wednesday October 6 
    Mechanical and chemical equilibria 
    Calculations using equations of state 
    To read: Callen pp. 51-58 
    Assignment: 6
 
  Thursday October 7
    Formal relations concerning multivariate functions, their derivatives and integrals 
    Euler equation for U and S 
    Gibbs-Duhem equation & Gibbs phase rule 
    Calculation of the entropy of an ideal gas from the equations of state 

 
  Wednesday October 13 
    Constrained equilibria in a manostate, a thermostate, and both of them 
    Introduction and properties of  the enthalpy, free energy and Gibbs potential 
    Calculation of the entropy of an ideal gas from the equations of state 
    To read: Callen pp. 59-71, Atkins 
    Assignment: 8
 
  Thursday October 14
    Heat engines and refrigerators 
    Calculation of the coefficients characterizing thermodynamic cycles 
    Use of thermodynamic data to calculate heat and work in engines
    To read: Callen pp. 95-130, 
    Assignment: 9

 
  Wednesday October 20
    1st  midterm exam 
    To prepare read: Callen pp. 2-130. 
    (45 minuts from 8.15 to 9.00) 
    The formulation of classical phenomenological thermodynamics
    To read: Callen pp. 2-130. 
    Assignment: 10
 
Thursday October 21
    The formulation of classical phenomenological thermodynamics 
    Rankine heat engine and refrigerator
    To read: Callen pp. 2-130. 
    Assignment: 11

 
  Wednesday October 27
    Thermodynamic description of a single component system 
    Phase equilibria of pure substances 
    Phase diagrams 
    The Clapeyron equation
    To read: Atkins, Chapters 6.1 throgh 6.6
 
  Thursday October 28
    Revisiting phase diagrams 
    Liquid-vapour phase eqilibrium 
    The Clausius-Clapeyron equation 
    Thermodynamic description of surface changes - the surface tension

 
Wednesday November 3
    The chemical potential as a function of T, P and the composition 
    The dependence of the chemical potential of an ideal gas on the pressure 
    The chemical potential in an ideal mixture 
    Chemical potentials in real mixtures 
    Excess chemical potential and absolute activity 
    "The chemists' plot": chemical potentials in terms of fugacity and relative activity 
    Different kinds of reference states and standard states
    To read: Atkins:  Chapters 7.1 to 7.4 
 
  Thursday November 4
    Ideal dilute solutions and nearly pure substances 
    Colligative properties
    To read: Atkins: entire Chapter 7 
    Assignment: 14

 
  Wednesday November 10
    Binary mixtures' phase diagrams 
    Liquid-vapour pressure-composition diagrams 
    Liquid-vapour temperature-composition diagrams 
    Azeotrope mixtures 
    Solid-liquid phase diagrams
    To read: Atkins: entire Chapter 8 
 
  Thursday November 11
    Partial molar quantities in binary mixtures 
    Calculations concerning mixture phase equilibria
    To read: Atkins: entire Chapter 8 
    Assignment: 15

 
  Wednesday November 17
    Homogeneous chemical equilibrium: 
    Thermodynamic treatment 
    Different chemical equilibrium constants 
    Dependence of the equilibrium constant on temperature and pressure
    To read: Atkins: entire Chapter 9 
    Assignment: 16
 
  Thursday November 18
    2nd  midterm exam 
    To prepare read: Atkins Chapters 6 and 7 
    (45 minuts from 8.15 to 9.00) 

    Calculations concerning chemical equilibria
    To read: Atkins: entire Chapter 9 
    Assignment: 17

 
  Wednesday November 24
    Different kinds of transport: 
    Conductive, convective and radiative 
    General description of conductive transport 
    Diffusion, viscuous flow, conduction of heat and electricity
    To read: Atkins: Chapters 24.1 to 24.4 and 24.10 to 24.13
 
  Thursday November 25
    Fick's 1st and 2nd laws 
    Diffusive concentration profiles 
    Diffusion + convective flow
    To read: Atkins: Chapters 24.1 to 24.4 and 24.10 to 24.13 
    Assignment: 18

 
  Wednesday December 1
    Calculations on mixtures, chemical equilibrium and transport
    To read: Atkins: Chapters 8, 9 and 24
 
  Thursday December 2
    Thermodynamic description of charged phases 
    Electroneutrality principle 
    Mean activity
    To read: Atkins: Chapter 10.1, 10.2 
    Assignment: 19

 
  Wednesday December 8
    3rd  midterm exam 
    To prepare read: Atkins Chapters 8, 9, 24 (45 minuts from 8.15 to 9.00) 

    Electrochemistry: contact equilibria 
    The liquid-liquid junction potential
    To read: Atkins: Chapter 10.1, 10.2
 
  Thursday December 9
    Thermodynamic description of the electrochemical cell 
    Standard electrode potentials and the standard cell potential
    To read: Atkins: Chapters 10.1 to 10.6 

    Assignment: Takehome exam

 
  Wednesday December 15
    The Debye-Hückel limiting law Conductivity of electrolyte solutions
 
  Thursday December 16
    Molar conductivity of ions and electrolytes 
    Diffusion potential 
    Transfer numbers
    To read: Atkins: Chapter 10 
    and relevant chapters of Inzelt and Kiss

 
  Tuesday December 22
    Optional  midterm exam 
    To prepare read: the entire semester material 
    (60 minuts from 10:00 to 11.00) 

    Auditory 063 
     
    To read: material of the entire semester
 

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