Subsections
[Cr:3, Lc:2, Tt:1, Lb:0]
- Laws of thermodynamics; First law: Machinery and concepts, work done
in reversible and irreversible processes, heat capacity at constant
volume and pressure, zeroth law, the need for second law.
- Second law: Machinery and concepts, entropy, Clausius inequality,
statistical interpretation of entropy, Boltzmann entropy equation,
Gibbs and Helmholtz free energy, Maxwell's relations, molar
properties, chemical potential, Gibbs-Helmholtz equation, Gibbs-Duhem
equation.
- The concept of equilibrium in chemistry: Equilibrium and
non-equilibrium states, equilibrium in heterogeneous systems and
chemical reactions.
- Phase equilibrium, phase transitions and boundaries, solid-liquid,
liquid-vapor and solid-vapor systems, Clausius-Clapeyron equation,
phase rule and its derivation, phase diagrams of one and two-component
systems.
- Chemical equilibrium: Equilibrium constant, reaction quotient,
standard Gibbs free energy, temperature and pressure dependence of
equilibrium constant, Van't Hoff equation.
- Elementary chemical kinetics and catalysis: Rate laws, chain
reactions, explosions, acid-base catalysis, examples of homogeneous
and heterogeneous catalysis, enzyme catalysis.
- Theory of reaction rates and reaction dynamics, activated complex,
potential energy surface and reaction dynamics, Arrhenius theory,
collision theory, transition-state theory, unimolecular and
bimolecular reactions.
- D. A. McQuarrie, J. D. Simon, Molecular Thermodynamics, 1st Ed,
Viva Books, New Delhi (2004).
- P. Atkins, J de Paula, Physical Chemistry, 8th Ed, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi (2006).
- D. A. McQuarrie, J. D. Simon, Physical Chemistry: A Molecular
Approach, 1st Ed, University Science Books, California (1997).
