Lectures
- 1. State of a system
- 2. Work, heat, first law
- 3. Internal energy, expansion work
- 4. Enthalpy
- 5. Adiabatic changes
- 6. Thermochemistry
- 7. Calorimetry
- 8. Second law
- 9. Entropy and the Clausius inequality
- 10. Entropy and irreversibility
- 11. Fundamental equation, absolute S, third law
- 12. Criteria for spontaneous change
- 13. Gibbs free energy
- 14. Multicomponent systems, chemical potential
- 15. Chemical equilibrium
- 16. Temperature, pressure and Kp
- 17. Equilibrium: application to drug design
- 18. Phase equilibria - one component
- 19. Clausius-Clapeyron equation
- 20. Phase equilibria - two components
- 21. Ideal solutions
- 22. Non-ideal solutions
- 23. Colligative properties
- 24. Introduction to statistical mechanics
- 25. Partition function (q) - large N limit
- 26. Partition function (Q) - many particles
- 27. Statistical mechanics and discrete energy levels
- 28. Model systems
- 29. Applications: chemical and phase equilibria
- 30. Introduction to reaction kinetics
- 31. Complex reactions and mechanisms
- 32. Steady-state and equilibrium approximations
- 33. Chain reactions
- 34. Temperature dependence, Ea, catalysis
- 35. Enzyme catalysis
- 36. Autocatalysis and oscillators
Chemical Thermodynamics & Kinetics
Course Summary
This course is based on 5.60 Thermodynamics & Kinetics, Spring 2008 made available by Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
This course deals primarily with equilibrium properties of macroscopic systems, basic thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium of reactions in gas and solution phase, and rates of chemical reactions. It includes a complete set of video lectures and lecture notes. The course is taught at MIT and the material has evolved over a period of many years, and several faculty members have contributed to the development of the course contents.
Reading Material
1. Textbook: Physical ChemistrySilbey, R., R. Alberty, and M. Bawendi. Physical Chemistry. 4th ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. ISBN: 9780471215042.
2. Physical Chemistry
Atkins, P., and J. de Paula. Physical Chemistry. 7th ed. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Company, 2001. ISBN: 9780716735397.
3. Physical Chemistry
Castellan, G. Physical Chemistry. 3rd ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1983. ISBN: 9780201103861.
4. Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Dynamics
Houston, P. Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Dynamics. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2001. ISBN: 9780072435375.
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