Week 14: Derivation of Maxwell’s distribution for kinetic energy.
Course Material
- Week 1: Review of first law of thermodynamics
- Week 2: Second law of thermodynamics and its applications.
- Week 3: Clausius inequality. Nernst heat theorem and its applications.
- Week 4: Third law of thermodynamics and determination of absolute entropy.
- Week 5:Entropy of mixing. Partial molal quantities.
- Week 6: Concept of order of reaction.
- Week 7: Kinetics of third order reactions with different concentration and molecular identity
- Week 8: Mid Term Exam
- Week 9: Kinetics of opposing, reversible, consecutive and parallel reactions.
- Week 10: Kinetics of thermally excited chain reactions.
- Week 11: Theories of reactions.
- Week 12: Maxwell’s law of distribution of velocities and derivation of average velocity, most probable velocity and root mean square velocity from the law
- Week 13: Significance of Maxwell’s law.
- Week 14: Derivation of Maxwell’s distribution for kinetic energy.
- Week 15: Barometric formula, effect of altitude, temperature and molecular mass on vertical distribution of particles.
- Week 16: Final Term Exam
- Chapters 16
- Department Chemistry(SCB)
- Teacher
Dr. Irfan Ullah
