Chemistry 2290; 2012 and Prior

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General Course Notes Instructor:   H. Georg Schreckenbach    Office: Parker building 552    Phone: (204) 474-6261 (voice mail available)    FAX: (204) 474-7608 (chemistry department)    E-mail: schrecke@cc.umanitoba.ca Lab Instructor:   Dr. Carl Bartels   (Office: Parker building 350) Lab Webpages:   on ANGEL Course Title:   "Chemical Energetics and Dynamics: Macroscopic Descriptions" General Outline:   This course covers the fundamentals of chemical thermodynamics with applications to topics such as chemical potential, solution chemistry phase diagrams, and electrochemistry. The course consists of three components, (i) lecture, (ii) laboratory, and (iii) problem solving (covered by assignments and suggested problems.) Tentative Course Outline:   Equations of state (Engel, chapters 1 and 7) - mathematical tools, definitions, ideal gases, van der Waals equation Fundamental concepts of thermodynamics (Engel, chapters 2 to 6) - work, heat, internal energy, First Law of thermodynamics, heat capacity, enthalpy, entropy, Second Law, Third Law, Gibbs and Helmholtz energies, Maxwell relations Phase equilibria (chapter 8) - phase boundaries, phase diagrams, Clapeyron equation, Clausius-Clapeyron equation Chemical equilibira (chapter 6) - equilibrium constant, le Chatelier's principle, van't Hoff equation Solutions (chapters 9 and 10) - ideal and non-ideal solutions, Gibbs-Dunhem equation, Raoult's Law, Henry's Law, colligative properties, solvent and solute activity Electrochemistry (chapter 11) - electrochemical cells, Nernst equation, batteries This is a tentative course outline only. Textbook:   T. Engel, P. Reid, "Physical Chemistry", 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, As a comment, we have chosen the book by Engel and Reid in order to have the same text for CHEM 2280 and CHEM 2290.    Supplementary textbooks:    - K. J. Laidler, J. H. Meiser, B. C. Sanctuary, "Physical Chemistry", 4th edition.    - P. Atkins, J. de Paula, "Physical Chemistry", 8th or 7th eds., Freeman Remark on Mathematical Tools:   Physical Chemistry is, in general, the application of the principles of physics to chemistry. In order to describe the physics (and thus the physical chemistry) appropriately, a good command of the language and tools of mathematics is necessary! In this course, we will, specifically, make frequent use of (i) integrals, (ii) differentiation, and (iii) partial derivatives, as well as, to a lesser degree, of differential equations. These mathematical tools will be reviewed briefly in class. Reviews are also available in the textbooks. Feedback:   I appreciate feedback (such as about the course or about the websites), both formal (such as through the course evaluations) and informal!