KE523: Physical chemistry (5 ECTS)

STADS: 10007601

Level
Bachelor course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the autumn semester.

Teacher responsible
Email: Raewyn.Town@sdu.dk
Email: pcs@sdu.dk

Timetable
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Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
KE501 Fundamental chemistry or FF503, MM501 and MM502 or FF502/FF506/MM529 as well as either FY501, FY519 or FY520 must have been attended.

Course introduction
The course aims at making the students familiar with the application of macroscopic thermodynamical concepts to physical-chemical problems within physics, chemistry and biology to an extent that will enable them to understand and, if necessary, apply a text where thermodynamical reasoning has been applied to such problems.

Expected learning outcome
After completing the course the student is expected to be able to:

• Apply the ideal gas law and explain deviations from ideality for real gases.
• Apply the thermodynamic laws and be able to use concepts such as internal energy, enthalpy, entropy, free energy, as well as their dependence on pressure and temperature.
• Interpret phase diagrams for pure substances and use the relevant formulae to describe quantitatively the different part of such a phase diagram.
• Apply thermodynamics to the quantitative description of simple mixtures of gasses and fluids, including use of the chemical potential.
• Apply thermodynamics to equilibrium chemistry and electrochemistry for situations with deviations from ideality, including being able to use the concept of activity.
• Describe the time dependence of chemical reactions using kinetics and the associated integrated expressions, and relate this to equilibrium chemistry and thermodynamics.
• Apply the concepts of interface voltage and interface excess.
• Combine aforementioned competences to solve problems in physical chemistry.

Subject overview

• The properties of gases
• 1st law of thermodynamics, energy, enthalpy
• 2nd law of thermodynamics, entropy, Helmholtz and Gibbs functions
• Chemical potential
• The concept of activity
• Sublimation, vaporization and fusion of pure substances
• Mixtures, binary phase diagrams, colligative properties
• Chemical reactions and equilibria
• Gas liquid interfaces and interfacial tension
• Equilibrium electrochemistry, electrochemical cells
• Reaction kinetics

Literature

• Peter Atkins og Julio de Paula: Atkins Physical Chemistry , Oxford University Press, 9. udgave, 2010.

Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:

1. Three laboratory exercises evaluated by pass / fail. Internal evaluation by the teacher, based on individual reports (1 ECTS).
2. A 4-hour written examination with books and notes of your own choice as well as pocket calculator. External examiner. Marks according to the Danish 7-point scale (4 ECTS).

Reexamination in the same exam period or immediately thereafter. The mode of exam at the reexamination may differ from the mode of exam at the ordinary exam.

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.
Intro phase: 20 hours
Skills training phase: 31 hours, hereof:
 - Tutorials: 22 hours
 - Laboratory exercises: 9 hours

Educational activities Study phase: 42 hours

Language
This course is taught in English.

Course enrollment
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