Chemistry CHEM 213W: Introductory Physical Chemistry

Announcements

Handouts

• General Information
• Probability and Statistics
• The Maxwell Boltzmann Distribution
• Collision Rates, Mean Free Path and Diffusion
• Collision Theory of the Rate Constant
• The First Law
• Thermochemistry
• The Second Law
• Carnot Engines, Efficiency, and the Second Law
• Why the Efficiency of a Carnot Engine is Independent of the Kind of Working Material
• The Clausius Inequality and the Mathematical Statement of the Second Law
• Entropy of Mixing: A Statistical View
• The Chemical Potential
• Maxwell Relations
• The Free Energy
• Eigenvalues and Thermodynamic Stability
• Phase Equilibrium
• Gibbs-Konovalov Theorem and Azeotropes
• A comment on Eutectics
• Capillary Rise and Depression
  

Divertessements from R. Kubo's Thermodynamics

• Founders of the First Law
• Why do we have winter heating?
• Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot
• Absolute temperature
• On the names of thermodynamic functions

Problem Sets

• Problem Set 1.
• Problem Set 2.
• Problem Set 3.
• Problem Set 4.
• Problem Set 5.
• Problem Set 6.
• Problem Set 7.
• Problem Set 8.
• Problem Set 9.

Solutions (Case-sensitive username and password required)

• Problem Set 1 Solutions.
• Problem Set 2 Solutions.
• Problem Set 3 Solutions.
• Problem Set 4 Solutions.
• Problem Set 5 Solutions.
• Problem Set 6 Solutions.
• Problem Set 7 Solutions.
• Problem Set 8 Solutions.
• Problem Set 9 Solutions.

Past Quizes and Exams

• First Quiz 2001
• First Quiz 2002
• Second Quiz 2001
• Second Quiz 2002
• Final Exam 2001
• Final Exam 2002

Solutions (Case-sensitive username and password required)

• First Midterm Exam 2001
• First Midterm Exam 2002

There is a course pack containing all the handouts and problem sets for the course. It can be purchased from the bookstore or downloaded here as a PDF file.