Faculty of Science

Objectives

To introduce students to the physical concepts used in explaining modern chemical knowledge; states of matter, introduction to chemical kinetics, fundamentals of chemical thermodynamics, notions of quantum chemistry and electrochemistry.

Contents

Gas laws; Fundamentals of chemical thermodynamics; First and Second laws of thermodynamics; entropy; thermodynamic equilibrium; ionic equilibria; phase diagrams; Electrochemistry; chemical kinetics; Solution to Schrodinger's Equation; wave functions; blackbody radiation Planck's theory; photoelectric effect; line spectra; Bohr atom; de Broglie's relation; Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle; the Schrodinger Equation; operators, particle in a box; simple harmonic oscillators

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