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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

4

Type of course

Tutorial B


Teaching hours
 per semester    per week

30            2

ECTS credits

3


Lecturer:

Dr. hab. Andrzej Huczko (coordinator),
Room: F232    Phone extn.: 303    email: ahuczko@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:

Reaction kinetics: influence of temperature, the Arrhenius equation. Rates of chemical reactions: rate equations for simple reactions, determination of reaction order and rate constants, radioactive decay, integrated rate laws. Phase equilibrium, Clausius-Clapeyron equation. Solutions of electrolytes, Debyea-Huckel equation. Electrochemistry: conductivity, electrodes, electrochemical cells. Kinetics of electrode reactions.

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:


Tests

Remarks:

-




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