Physical Chemistry I

Catalog description

A junior-level chemistry course required of all chemistry majors. Course content includes ideal and non-ideal gases, laws of thermodynamics, enthalpy, entropy, heat capacity, free energy, Maxwell's relations, activities, phase and chemical equilibria, electrochemistry, colligative properties, kinetic theory of gases, statistical mechanics, classical kinetics and mechanisms. Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 3 hours. $40 laboratory fee.