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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


No / course unit code


Semester

4

Type of course

Lecture


Teaching hours
 per semester    per week

15            1

ECTS credits

1.5


Lecturer:

Dr. hab. Magdalena Skompska,
Room: 317    Phone extn.: 370    email: mskomps@chem.uw.edu.pl

Teaching Division:

Physical Chemistry

Educational and
professional goals:

The physical chemistry course is to lay foundations in thermodynamics, thermochemistry, chemical equilibrium, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics and to present how to use in practice the laws describing physicochemical phenomena.

Course description:

The forth semester course comprises:

- Transport phenomena in gases and solutions
- Electrochemistry of ionic solutions, basics of Debye-Hückel theory, activity and activity coefficient
- Conductivity of strong and weak electrolytes,
- Potential differences at the interfaces, different types of electrodes and electrode reactions; electrochemical potential, Galvani potential, Nernst equation,
- Galvanic cells (chemical and concentration cells), electromotive force, reversibility and irreversibility of the cells, application of EMF measurements,
- thermodynamics of surface phenomena, surface tension, adsorption, isotherms of adsorption, properties of colloidal solutions
- kinetics of simple and complex reactions, enzymatic reactions, theory of transition state, basics of electrochemical kinetics, corrosion
- basis of homo- and heterogeneous catalysis
- optical, electrical and magnetic properties of the molecules.

Required background:


Passed courses in mathematics and physics.

Form of assessment:


Written exam.

Remarks:

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