KE523: Physical chemistry (5 ECTS)

STADS: 10010001

Level
Bachelor course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the autumn semester.

Teacher responsible
Email: mip@sdu.dk
Email: pcs@sdu.dk

Timetable
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Prerequisites:
None.

Academic preconditions:
The course is based on fundamental knowledge within general and organic chemistry, biology, physics and mathematics, corresponding to the first year of the study programme.

Course introduction
The course aims to make the students familiar with the application of a variety of physical chemistry concepts to solve problems within a range of contexts in the scope of physics, chemistry and biology.

The course builds on the knowledge acquired in the courses FF503 / FF504 / FF507 (or KE501 Fundamental Chemistry) and FF502 / FF506 / MM529 (or MM501 and MM502 as well as either FY501, FY519 or FY520), and gives an academic basis for studying topics that involve basic physical chemistry concepts.

In relation to the competence profile of the degree it is the explicit focus of the course to:

• Give understanding of a range of concepts in physical chemistry
• Apply such knowledge to solving problems

Expected learning outcome
The learning objectives of the course is that the student demonstrates the ability 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 gases 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.
• Combine aforementioned competences to solve problems in physical chemistry.

Subject overview
The following main topics are contained in the course:

• 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 eller 10. udgave, 2014.

Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam

1. Participation in three laboratory exercises is a prerequisite for participating in evaluation a.
2. It is a prerequisite for participating in evaluation b to pass six out of eight compulsory exercises

Evaluation for both: Pass/fail, internal marking by teacher.

Assessment and marking:

1. Approval of individual reports. Evaluated by pass / fail. Internal marking by the teacher (1 ECTS). (10010012).
2. A 4-hour written examination. Exam aids allowed. External examiner. Marks according to the Danish 7-point scale (4 ECTS). (10010002).

Reexamination a. will take place in week 5. Reexamination b. will take place in week 9. The mode of exam at the reexamination in both a. and b. 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

Educational form
Activities during the study phase:

• Reading textbook
• Reading lecture notes
• Solving problems

Language
This course is taught in English.

Course enrollment
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