CHEM – 382 Physical Chemistry –I BS V (SS)

Course Material

01 Week 1: Chemical Thermodynamics: Review of first law of thermodynamics.

02 Week 2: Second law of thermodynamics and its applications

03 Week 3: Clausius in equality. Nernst heat theorm and its applications

04 Week 4: Third law of thermodynamics and determination of absolute entropy

05 Week 5: Third law of thermodynamics and determination of absolute entropy

06 Week 6; Entropy of mixing. Partial molal quantities

07 Week 7: Kinetic theory of gases: Maxwell’s law of distribution of velocities and derivation of average velocity

08 Week 9: Kinetic theory of gases: Maxwell’s law of distribution of velocities and derivation of average velocity

09 Week 10: Kinetic theory of gases: Maxwell’s law of distribution of velocities and derivation of average velocity

10 Week 11: most probable velocity and root mean square velocity from the law. Significance of Maxwell’s law. Derivation of Maxwell’s distribution for kinetic energy.

11 Week 12: Barometric formula, effect of altitude, temperature and molecular mass on vertical distribution of particles

12 Week 13: Chemical Kinetics: Concept of order of reaction. Kinetics of third order reactions with different concentration and molecular identity.

13 Week 14: Chemical Kinetics: Concept of order of reaction. Kinetics of third order reactions with different concentration and molecular identity.

14 Week 15: Kinetics of opposing, reversible, consecutive and parallel reactions.

15 Week 16: Kinetics of thermally excited chain reactions

16 Week 17: Theories of reactions