Lecture Notes

SES # TOPICS
1 State of a system, 0th law, equation of state (PDF)
2 Work, heat, first law (PDF)
3 Internal energy, expansion work (PDF)
4 Enthalpy (PDF)
5 Joule-Thomson (PDF)
6 Adiabatic changes (PDF)
7 Thermochemistry (PDF)
8 Calorimetry (PDF)
9 Second law (PDF)
10 Entropy and the clausius inequality (PDF)
11 Carnot cycle (PDF)
12 Calculation of ΔS fundamental equations (PDF)
13 Third law absolute entropy (PDF)
14 Criteria for equilibrium (PDF)
15 Helmholtz and Gibbs free energy (PDF)
16 Temperature pressure and ΔG (PDF)
17 Chemical equilibrium in gases (PDF)
18 Phase equilibria - one component (PDF)
19 Clausius-clapeyron equation (PDF)
20 Phase equilibria - two components (PDF)
21-22 Ideal solutions, non-ideal solutions (PDF)
23 Colligative properties (PDF)
24 Introduction to statistical mechanics (PDF)
25 Partition function (q) - large n limit (PDF)
26-27 Partition function (Q) - many particles; statistical mechanics and discrete energy levels (PDF)
28 Applications: Chemical and phase equilibria (PDF)
29 Kinetics: Reaction rates, orders, half lives (PDF)
30 Introduction to reaction kinetics (PDF)
31 Consecutive, reversible reactions and mechanisms (PDF)
32 Steady-state and equilibrium approximations (PDF)
33 Chain reactions (PDF)
34 Potential energy surfaces, E_a, catalysis (PDF)
35 Enzyme catalysis (PDF)
36 Autocatalysis and oscillators (PDF)