Module A1.3 - Physical Chemistry
Coordinator
apl. Prof. Dr. Michael Schmitt
Lecturers
Dr. Dana Cialla-May, Prof. Dr. Ute Neugebauer, Dr. Jer-Shing Huang, apl. Prof. Dr. Michael Schmitt
Schedule
- Lectures + Exercises:
Monday 12.30 - 14.00 (SR 122, August-Bebel-Str. 4) +
Thursday 08.15 - 09.45 (SR 122, August-Bebel-Str. 4)
Friday 08.15 - 09.45 (SR 121, August-Bebel-Str. 4) - Re-take Exam: 27.03.2023 10:00-12:00
Registration
Please enrol in Friedolin for this course. For the exam registration via DOSIS within the first 10 weeks after the start of the lecture period is necessary. You will get a note via e-mail when the DOSIS portal is open.
Contents:
Week | Lecturer | Subject |
Week 1 17.10.2022 |
Schmitt |
Introduction and Overview history thermodynamics, definitions |
20.10.2022 | Schmitt |
First law of thermodynamics work and heat, path dependence of work, Internal energy |
21.10.2022 | Cialla-May | seminar |
Week 2 24.10.2022 |
Schmitt |
Thermochemistry standard enthalpy changes, Hess’s law, spontaneous reactions |
27.10.2022 | Schmitt |
Second law of thermodynamics dispersal of energy, entropy, Helmholtz and Gibbs energies |
28.10.2022 | Cialla-May |
seminar |
Week 3 31.10.2022 |
Public Holiday | |
03.11.2022 |
Schmitt |
Physical transformation Phase diagrams, Chemical potential |
04.11.2022 |
Cialla-May | seminar |
Week 4 07.11.2022 |
Schmitt |
Transport phenomena osmosis, dialysis, diffusion, Fick's law |
10.11.2022 |
Huang |
Chemical equilibrium I equilibrium constant, LeChatelier’s principle, Henderson-Hasselbalch equation |
11.11.2022 |
Cialla-May | seminar |
Week 5 14.11.2022 |
Huang |
Introduction to equilibrium electrochemistry I electrochemical reactions, cell potential |
17.11.2022 | Huang |
Introduction to equilibrium electrochemistry II Nernst equation, standard potential |
18.11.2022 | Cialla-May | seminar |
Week 6 21.11.2022 |
Huang | Chemical kinetics: empirical methods, rates of reactions |
24.11.2022 |
Huang | Rate laws of chemical reactions I |
25.11.2022 |
Cialla-May | seminar |
Week 7 28.11.2022 |
Huang | Kinetics of complex reactions |
01.12.2022 |
Huang | Rate laws of chemical reactions II |
02.12.2022 |
Cialla-May | seminar |
Week 8 05.12.2022 |
Huang | Speed of reactions I |
08.12.2022 |
Huang | Speed of reactions II |
09.12.2022 |
Cialla-May | seminar |
Week 9 12.12.2022 |
Huang |
Experimental methods to measure kinetics |
15.12.2022 |
Huang |
Breakdown of classical mechanics black body radiation, photoelectric effect, Compton effect etc. |
16.12.2022 | Cialla-May | seminar |
Week 10 02.01.2023 |
Huang | Wave-particle duality, de Broglie relationship, wavefunction, operator |
05.01.2023 |
Neugebauer | Heisenberg Uncertainty principle, Schrödinger equation, quantization |
06.01.2023 | Cialla-May | seminar |
Week 11 09.01.2023 |
Neugebauer | Particle in a box; harmonic oscillator |
12.01.2023 |
Neugebauer | Rotation: particle on a circle |
13.01.2023 | Cialla-May | seminar |
Week 12 16.01.2023 |
Neugebauer |
Hydrogen atom; atomic spectra of hydrogen like atoms |
19.01.2023 |
Neugebauer |
Structure and spectra of multielectron atoms Pauli principle, Hund’s rule |
20.01.2023 | Cialla-May | seminar |
Week 13 23.01.2023 |
Neugebauer | Molecular structure: Born-Oppenheimer approximation, valence bond theory (hybridization) |
26.01.2023 |
Neugebauer |
Molecular structure: Variational principle; perturbation theory |
27.01.2023 | Cialla-May | seminar |
Week 14 30.01.2023 |
Neugebauer |
Molecular structure: Molecular orbital theory linear combination of atomic orbitals |
02.02.2023 |
Neugebauer |
Molecular structure: Molecular orbital theory Slater determinat, Hückel approximation |
03.02.2023 | Cialla-May | seminar |
Week 15 06.02.2023 |
Neugebauer |
Hartree-Fock method electron correlation |
09.02.2023 |
Neugebauer | Hartree-Fock method (configuration interaction) / Density functional theory (Hohenberg-Kohn Theorem, Kohn-Sham approach) |
10.02.2023 | Cialla-May | seminar |