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UNIWERSITY OF WARSAW

1 Pasteura Str., 02-093 Warsaw, Poland, phone: +48 (0)22 822 02 11

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Subject

Physical Chemistry I


No / course unit code


Semester

3

Type of course

Tutorials B


Teaching hours
 per semester    per week

30            2

ECTS credits

3


Lecturer:

Dr. Jan Kotowski,
Room: 405    Phone extn.: 217    email: jmkot@chem.uw.edu.pl

Teaching Division:

Physical Chemistry

Educational and
professional goals:

The aim of this tutorial is that students gain experience in problem solving and performing calculations in physical chemistry.

Course description:

Thermodynamics. The first law of thermodynamics: internal energy, enthalpy, molar heat capacities, Hess’s law, Kirchhoff’s equation, ideal gas expansion. The second law of thermodynamics: second law state functions, entropy calculations, entropy for chemical reactions. Free energy, activities, thermodynamic relations. Chemical equilibrium: quilibrium constants, equilibrium in aqueous solutions.

Literature:

H.P. Standler, Chemical Thermodynamics - revision and worked examples, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House, Cambridge 1989

Clyde R. Metz, 2000 Solved Problems in Physical Chemistry, McGraw Hill, Inc. New York 1990.
Required background:


Mathematics basics (equation of a straight line, differentiation, integration).

Form of assessment:


Test

Remarks:

-




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