Date

Lecture

Reading

August 18

Introduction. Overview.

August 20

Perfect gas laws

Chapter 1.1-1.3

August 23

Kinetic theory of gases

Chapter 1.4-1.8

August 25

Real gases

Chapter 1.9-1.14

August 27

Thermodynamics: The First Law

Chapter 2.1-2.2

August 30

System and surrounding. Work and heat

Chapter 2.3-2.4

September 1

Internal Energy. Heat capacity. First law.

Chapter 2.5-2.7

September 3

Enthalpy. Temperature variation of enthalpy.

Chapter 3.1-3.3

September 6

Labor Day. No Classes.

September 8

Enthalpy of chemical change

Chapter 3.4-3.6

September 10

Thermodynamics: entropy The second law

Chapter 4.1 - 4.4

September 13

The third law. Reaction entropy

Chapter 4.5- 4.7

September 15

Gibbs energy function G . Properties of Gibbs energy

Chapter 4.8 - 4.9

September 17

Free energy. Equilibrium conditions. T and P effects.

Chapter 5.1 - 5.3

September 20

Phase transitions. Phase diagrams. The phase rule.

Chapter 5.4 -5.8

September 22

Mixtures. Ideal solutions. Raoult’s law. Henry’s law

Chapter 6 - 6.6

September 24

Colligative properties. Mixtures of volatile liquids

Chapter 6.7

September 27

Osmosis

Chapter 6.8

September 29

Chemical equilibrium.

Chapter 7

October 1

The response of equilibria to the conditions.

Chapter 7.7 -7.9

October 4

Consequences of equilibrium

Chapter 8

October 6

Midterm Exam 1

October 11

Rates of chemical reactions – kinetics. Rate constant

Chapter 10 -10.6

October 13

First and second order kinetics

10.7 -10.8

October 15

Half life. Arrhenius equation

10.9-10.10

October 18

Activated complex theory

10.11

October 20

Catalysis

10.12

October 22

Reaction kinetics - examples of mechanisms.

11.1-11.2

October 25

Steady-state approximation. Rate determining step

11.3 - 11.8

October 27

Enzyme kinetics. Michaelis-Menten mechanism of enzyme action

11.9

October 29

Competitive and non-competitive inhibition.

11.10

November 1

Failures of classical physics.

12.1 - 12.2

November 3

Introduction to quantum mechanics.

12.3 - 12.4

November 5

Waves as particles and particles as waves

12.5

November 8

Schrödinger equation. Heisenberg uncertainty

12.6 -12.8

November 10

Translational motion: the particle in a box

12.9

November 12

Vibrational motion

12.11

November 15

Rotational motion: the particle in a ring

12.10

November 17

Structure of atoms. Hydrogen atom. Electronic spin.

Chapter 13

November 19

Structures of many-electron atoms

13.8

November 22

Concepts in Molecular Spectroscopy

November 24

Thanksgiving, No classes.

November 26

Thanksgiving, No classes.

November 29

Rotational spectroscopy

December 1

Vibrational spectroscopy

December 3

Review