PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 2
- Overview
- Assessment methods
- Learning objectives
- Contents
- Full programme
- Bibliography
- Teaching methods
Fundamental concepts of Thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
Final oral examinations. Students should discuss a free chosen topic, and should answer to questions related to the program and to the laboratory report.
Fundamental concepts related to statistical thermodynamics, kinetics of chemical processes, and molecular basis of transport. The student will be able to rationalize in microscopic terms chemical phenomena occurring on the macroscopic scale.
Introduction to Statistical mechanics. Gibbs Ensembles.
Distribution of molecular states.
Molecular partition Function. Canonical Partition Function.
Energy and Entropy.
Statistical thermodynamics: fundamental relationships and their applications in chemistry.
Classical and Quantum Distributions.
Chemical Kinetics. Reaction rates. Kinetic equations, rate constants.
Kinetic basis of catalysis. Excited states kinetics.
Fluxes, transport phenomena and related laws. Matter, energy and charge fluxes.
Statistical interpretation of rate constant and temperature dependences
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Activates processes, Arrhenius approach
Transition state theory (Eyring approach)
Laboratory demonstrations (Mandatory). Experimental determination of rate constants and temperature dependence of rate constants (Both Arrhenius and Eyring)
Introduction to Statistical mechanics. Gibbs Ensembles.
Distribution of molecular states.
Molecular partition Function. Canonical Partition Function.
Energy and Entropy.
Statistical thermodynamics: fundamental relationships and their applications in chemistry.
Classical and Quantum Distributions.
Chemical Kinetics. Reaction rates. Kinetic equations, rate constants.
Kinetic basis of catalysis. Excited states kinetics.
Fluxes, transport phenomena and related laws. Matter, energy and charge fluxes.
Statistical interpretation of rate constant and temperature dependences
.
Activates processes, Arrhenius approach
Transition state theory (Eyring approach)
Laboratory demonstrations (Mandatory). Experimental determination of rate constants and temperature dependence of rate constants (Both Arrhenius and Eyring)
Main text: Atkins’ Physical Chemistry. Slides and additional material provided
Lectures and mandatory laboratory demonstrations.