Physical Chemistry (CHEM 401)
Offered By:
Engineering and Materials Science Faculty
Description
- Fundamentals of Spectroscopy:
- Vibrational Spectroscopy and Applications
- Electronic Spectroscopy and Applications, Fluorescence and Phosphorescence (Luminescence)
- Principles of Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Applications
- NMR, EPR
- Electrical and Magnetical Properties of Molecules:
- Dipole Moment, Polarizability, Refractory Index
- Intermolecular Forces
- Magnetic Properties of Molecules
- Chemical Equilibrium:
- Repetition of basic Principles: Exergonic and endergonic reactions (G, H, S)
- Catalysts
- Survey of Chemical potential, electrochemical potential EMK
- Reversible and irreversible processes
- Electrochemical/chemical Processes:
- Electrolysis: (technical chlorine-alkaline electrolysis, solvay-process). Hall process, aluminum (energy consuming production method, recycling), Haber-Bosch process, phosphorus and environment, oxygen liquification, ozone, Frash-process, sulfuric acid.
- Kinetics of Chemical Reactions:
- Rate Laws
- Complex reactions
- Introduction to Theory of activated Complex
- Energy hypersurfaces