Instructor: Prof. Ron Birke,
212-650-8363, e-mail: birke@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Office: MR-1121 B2, Office
Hours: Monday 4-6 pm
Textbook: "Physical Chemistry" by Silbey, Alberty,
Bawendi, John Wiley and Sons, 2005.
Course
description (from Bulletin) Ideal and real
gases, kinetic molecular theory, thermodynamics and phase equilibria, solutions
Prerequisites and/or
Corequisites: for Chem 33000, Math 203, Physics 207, Coreq: Physics 208; for
Chem 33001 (optional workshop), coreq, Chem 33000
Class schedule: Chem 33000: M,W, 9:30-10:45,
3hrs/week, 3 credits;
Chem 33001, F 9:30-10:50, 2 hrs/week, 0
credits
Course
objectives- Students should:
1) Understand
gas laws, ideal and real, and be able to use them in problems
2) The major
part of the course will be devoted to introductory thermodynamics, including: i) work, heat and energy, and the First Law of
Thermodynamics, ii) entropy and the
Second Law, the Third Law, other thermodynamic potentials (including free
energy); iii) application of
thermodynamics to chemical equilibrium, and phase equilibrium iv) application to solutions, including ionic solutions;
Debye-Huckel theory of dilute ionic solutions
3) Applications of
thermodynamics to some special topics, including some biochemical reactions
Assessment/grading/policies: There will be three hour examinations plus a final
examination; the lowest and highest hour exam will be averaged and the lowest
hour exam dropped; if a student
misses an exam for any reason whatever, that becomes the low grade and will be
averaged with the highest grade. There are no makeup exams. The final grade may be curved. Students who miss more than one exam should drop the course.
Problems: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 16.18, 20, 22.
5
Chapter 2: First Law of ThermoDynamics
Problems: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, 24, 27, 31, 34.
First Lecture Exam (Chapters 1, 2, 3)
5
Chapter 4: Fundamental
Equations of Thermodynamics
Problems: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 28.
5 Chapter 5: Chemical Equilibrium
Problems: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14, 18, 19, 22, 24, 28, 32, 33, 40.
Second Lecture Exam (Chapters 4, 5)
5 Chapter 6: Phase Equilibrium
Problems: 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 23, 28, 30, 35, 36, 41, 48.
5 Chapter 7: Electrochemical Equiilibrium
Problems: 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 18, 19, 24, 26, 30, 32, 36.
Third Lecture Exam (Chapters 4, 5)
4 Chapter
8: Thermodynamics of Biochemical
Reactions
Problems: 1, 2, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21.
Final Examination-comprehensive: scheduled during the final exam period
Grading Policy
Three Lecture exams 60 points
Final exam 35 points
Problems 5 points
Grade Assignment
Final Grade Average will be curved
Academic integrity: The CCNY policy on academic integrity will be followed. Document is posted on the CCNY website (CUNY policy on academic integrity—link is at the bottom of the home page). Make sure you have read the details regarding plagiarism and cheating, in case you are not clear about the rules of the college. Cases where academic integrity is compromised will be prosecuted according to these rules.