Physical Chemistry I with Laboratory

Catalog description

Upon completion of the course, students will: (1) employ the conceptual and mathematical aspects of thermodynamics to predict and describe the behavior of ideal thermodynamic systems including chemical and physical equilibria of pure substances, mixtures and their colligative properties, (2) apply the exactly solvable systems in quantum mechanics to predict and describe the behavior of model systems, (3) examine molecular structure and properties of matter at the level of simple molecular orbital theory, (4) describe and calculate the kinetic behavior of a variety of chemical and biochemical systems, (5) interpret spectroscopic data using appropriate quantum formulations, (6) describe the historical contributions of a variety of individuals to the development of physical chemistry and (7) apply the scientific method through a series of experiments, mathematical and molecular modeling and computational chemistry on ideal systems to explore fundamentals of physical chemistry.