Physical Chemistry 1, 5 cr

Core content

• Laws of thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium, properites of real gases. Basic principles for experimental determination of thermodynamic quantities. Chemical bond energies and their effect in chemical reactions.
• Calculating entrypy changes for the system and its surroundings in different situations and chemical reactions. Gibbs and Helmholtz energies. condotions for spontaneous processes. Chemical potential.
• Phasediagrams. Relative stabilities for solid substances, liquids and gases. Theoretical background of phase diagrams.
• Ideal and real solutions, colligative properties.
• Special characteristics of electrolyte solutions. Activities and activity coefficients in electrolyte solutions. Ionic strength.

Complementary knowledge

• Mathematical properties of state functions. Real gas laws and their applications ranges.
• Differential equations for state functions and the interconnections of thermodynamic quantities with each other.
• Partially miscible solutions
• The effect of ionic strength to solubility and equilibrium concentrations.