KIM 202E - Physical Chemistry

Course Objectives

1.To teach basic concepts of physical chemistry to engineering students
2.To give ability to apply the basic principles to different chemical systems.
3.To give ability to look through the aspects of physical chemistry to problems in daily life and in engineering

Course Description

Basic concepts of physical chemistry, ideal and real gases, 1st, 2nd and 3rd laws of thermodynamics, work, heat, enthalpy, entropy, Gibbs and Helmholtz free energies, chemical potential, equilibrium, phase equilibrium, phase diagrams, colligative properties, kinetic theory of gases, simple mixtures, reaction rate expressions, collisions, reaction kinetics, rate law, reaction types, catalysts and catalytic reactions, electrochemistry, conductivity and cells