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Physical chemistry

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0855/01
Abbreviation FCH
Course title Physical chemistry
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Mgr. Eva Pertile, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Physical chemistry, its meaning and basic division. Ideal and real gases.
2. Chemical thermodynamics. Heat capacities, heating and cooling of substances, selected thermodynamic concepts,
3. 1st theorem of thermodynamics, internal energy, enthalpy, heat of reaction and its dependence on temperature. Application of the 1st theorem of thermodynamics to an ideal gas, work of an ideal gas.
4. 2nd theorem of thermodynamics - Carnot's circular process, entropy, its interpretation and its dependence on state variables. Helmholtz and Gibbs energy, relationships between thermodynamic quantities, criteria for thermodynamic equilibrium, partial molar quantities, chemical potential, activity.
5. Chemical equilibria homogeneous and heterogeneous, equilibrium constant, reaction isotherm, Le Chatelier-Braun principle.
6. Phase equilibria - phase equilibrium conditions, Gibbs phase law, one component systems, two component systems, classification of solutions, ideal and real solutions.
7. Colligative properties - solutions of non-volatile substances. Binary liquid mixtures of immiscible, limitingly miscible and immiscible components.Partition equilibria - extraction.
8. Chemical kinetics - classification of reactions, basic concepts (reaction rate in homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, order of reaction, molecularity of reaction, mechanism of aggregate reaction).
9. Integrated kinetic equations of isolated reactions. Rate constant and its dependence on temperature. Basic elements of heterogeneous reactions.
10.Electrochemistry - electrolytes and electrolytic dissociation. Strong electrolytes - activity, activity coefficient, Debye - Hückel theory. Solubility product.
11.Equilibria in solutions of weak electrolytes - dissociation of weak acids and bases, hydrolysis of salts, buffers. Electrolysis, conversion numbers, electrical conductivity of electrolytes. Potentials in electrochemistry, electrodes, galvanic cells.
12.Colloid chemistry - classification of dispersion systems, degree of dispersion, particle size distribution function. Selected kinetic, electrical and optical properties of dispersion systems.
13.Heterogeneous dispersion systems (lyophobic salts, emulsions, foams, aerosols).

Literature

ATKINS, P. W. a Julio DE PAULA. Atkins' physical chemistry. 9th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2010. ISBN 9780199543373 .

Advised literature

MALIJEVSKÝ A., et. al: Physical chemistry in brief. Institute of Chemical
Technology, Prague, 2005. Dostupné z:
http://old.vscht.cz/fch/en/tools/breviary-online.pdf.
RONIS David: Introductory Physical Chemistry I. Mc Gill University.2015.Dostupné z:
http://ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca/ronis/chem223/course_pac.pdf.