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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 A


Teaching hours
 per semester    per week

15            1

ECTS credits

1.5


Lecturer:

Dr. hab. (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, integrated rate laws; radioactive decay. Solutions of electrolyte, Debyea-Huckel equation. Electrochemistry: conductivity, electrodes, electrochemical cells. Phase equilibrium, Clausius-Clapeyron equation.

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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