The purpose of physical chemistry is to understand reactions at the most fundamental level. This involves developing a means to quantitatively access the terms reactivity, structure, and tendency to react. Our approach will be to try to understand the simplest systems in great detail in hopes that we can apply the knowledge gained from them to actual, but much more complicated, processes that we are interested in.

The grade on each will be based on:

6 Hour Exams 40%

Homework assignments 15%

Lab Experiments, Data and Calc., Narratives 20%

Final Exam 25%
 
 
 

Week 1 August 21	x-rays origin, Braggs Law, Unit Cells; Derivations Mathcad Tutorial Start1357.mcd	Miller Indices. Diffraction Methods Cubic Cells. Thinking Microscopically Mathcad Tutorial 2 Math2357.mcd	Calculating Diffraction Patterns. Correlating Macro and Micro Concepts Laser diffraction.- D,C, N
August 28	Ionic Cmpds	Review;  Mathcad Tutorials 3 Graph3357.mcd	Exam 1.
Sept 6	Labor Day	Intro to Chemical Kinetics and application of integral and differential calculus	Graphical Methods of Analysis Clock Reaction; Order and Energy of Activation.D,C
Sept 11	Temperature dependence and Graphical Analysis	Mechanisms	Review Mathcad Tutorial 4 Solve4357.mcd Clock Reaction; cnt'd
Sept 18	Exam 2	Ideal Gases, Equipartition of Energy	Real Gases  1.29, 30, 33
Sept 25	Work and Heat and Energy  2.1,3, 34	First Law. Isothermal Expansion.	Adiabatic Expansion and Heat Capacities. 2. 39,40,41, 46, 47 Adiabatic Expansion of a Gas D,C, N
Oct 2	Exam 3	Enthalpy and Energy and Reaction Thermo. 2.19, 21, 51, 52	More Chemical reactions. and Calorimetry 2.25, 28, 31,33,49, 60 Specific heat of metal laboratory D,C, N
Oct 9	Second Law, Heat Engines, Phase Changes 3.2,3,26,27, 31(MC)	Entropy and Gas Expansion	Reversibility Third Law.  3.11,37, 40(MC),43 Bomb Calorimetry

Oct 16	Gas Mixing	Exam 4	Free Energy and Entropy  4.16,17,38, 39 Bomb Calorimeter D,C
Oct 23	Phase Changes, Mixing and Free Energy 4.41,42,51(MC)	Gas Equilibrium 5.2,47,48,51,56	Temperature Dependence of K 5.30,33,68(MC),73,76 DHvap calorimeter, Vapor pressure vs. temperature D,C, N of 1
Oct 30	More  5.39,40,75,77	Phase Eq. 6.3,4,5,6,7	More 6.8,9,10,11,14 DHvap calorimeter, Vapor pressure vs. temperature D,C, N of 1
Nov 6	Exam 5	Ideal Solutions  6. 20, 21, 22	Activity Coefficients and Real Solutions 6.23, 24, 34 DHfusion Freezing point depression . D,C
Nov 13	Colligative properties.  6.35, 36, 37, 39	Phase Diagrams. 6.43, 44	Electrolyte Solutions.-activity coefficients 7.4, 5, 8 Ksp via EMF  D,C, N
Nov 27	Electrolyte Solution.-EMF  7.9, 11	Ionic Equilibria	Exam 6
Dec 4	Review	Study Day Old Final