Physical Chemistry I

Catalog description

This course will focus on the study of chemical systems using physics principles. The first part of this course will cover the fundamentals of thermodynamics. Modern techniques in physical chemistry will be applied to different chemical systems experimentally and through computer simulations. The course covers the following topics: properties of gases, the laws of thermodynamics, work and heat, internal energy, enthalpy changes, heat capacity, entropy and entropy changes, phase stability and their phase transition, phase diagrams, simple mixtures, chemical equilibrium and a brief introduction to statistical thermodynamics.