CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT, PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
Chemistry 441/541, Physical Chemistry Winter, 2007 Venue: SB1 304
Timetable: MWF 12:45 – 1:50 PM
Syllabus:
The chapters and page numbers referred to in this syllabus are from Physical Chemistry; A Molecular Approach; by McQuarrie and Simon (University Science Books)
Lecture No. Date Topic Pages
1 Mon, 1/7 Chemical Equilibrium; partial pressures 1049 -1082
Equilibrium constant, Le Chatelier’s principle 1053 -1057
2 Wed, 1/9 Effect of extent of reaction on Gibbs energy, Gibbs energy and spontaneity 1058 -1063
Van’t Hoff equation, variation of Keq with temperature 1063 -1067
3 Fri, 1/11 Partial fugacities, partition functions and Keq, 1068 - 1080
Keq in terms of activities 1080 – 1084
4 Mon, 1/14 Activities, solubilities 1084 – 1087
Partition functions and ideal gases 731 – 756
5 Wed, 1/16 Translational PF, electronic pf, 731 – 737
Energy of a diatomic molecule, vibrational energy levels 737 – 742
6 Fri, 1/18 Excited rotational states, symmetry numbers 742 – 747
Mon, 1/21 Martin Luther King’s Birthday, No university exercises
7 Wed, 1/23 Vibrational partition functions 747 – 752
Polyatomic molecules and their rotational partition functions 752 – 754
8 Fri, 1/25 Chemical Kinetics 1137 – 1168
Experimental and integrated rate laws 1141 – 1144
9 Mon, 1/28 First order rate laws, problems 1141 – 1148
Time-dependent behavior 1148 – 1152
10 Wed, 1/30 Reversible reactions 1152 – 1155
Relaxation Methods 1155 – 1161
11 Fri, 2/1 Relaxation Methods 1155 – 1161
Temperature dependence of reaction rates 1161 – 1164
12 Mon, 2/4 Make-up lecture
13 Wed, 2/6 Transition state theory 1165 – 1169
Reaction mechanisms 1181 – 1183
14 Fri, 2/8 Detailed balance, derivations, problems 1183 – 1186
Consecutive reactions 1187 – 1191
15 Mon, 2/11 Steady state approximations, derivation of 1191 – 1194
Complex reactions and derivation of rate law 1195 – 1198
16 Wed, 2/13 Unimolecular reactions 1198 – 1202
Chain reactions 1202 – 1205
17 Fri, 2/15 Chain reactions, cont’d 1202 – 1205
Catalysis 1206 – 1209
18 Mon, 2/18 Enzyme catalysis 1209 – 1213
Other enzyme catalysis schemes off text
19 Wed, 2/20 Autocatalysis, dynamics of off text
Oscillating reactions off text
20 Fri, 2/22 Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction off text
Mechanism of the BZ reaction off text
21 Mon, 2/25 Experimental techniques, BZ reaction off text
Data analysis, oscillatory data manipulation off text
22. Wed, 2/27 Gas Phase reaction dynamics 1229 – 1261
Hard sphere collision theory, reaction cross-section 1229 – 1237
23 Fri, 2/29 Make-up class
24 Mon, 3/3 Orientation and rate of reaction 1237 – 1239
Coordinate system 1239 – 1244
25 Wed, 3/5 Crossed Molecular beams, 1244 – 1248
Velocity and angular distribution of products 1248 – 1255
26 Fri, 3/7 Solids and surface chemistry 1271 – 1311
Unit cell 1271 – 1277
27 Mon, 3/10 Calculations, Miller indices 1277 – 1281
Lattice planes, diffraction measurements 1281 – 1284
28 Wed, 3/12 Von Laue equations 1284 – 1287
Scattering intensities 1288 – 1293
29 Fri, 3/14 Course revision
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