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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Physical Chemistry I

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 619-0405/02
Abbreviation FCHI
Course title Physical Chemistry I
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Physical Chemistry and Theory of Technological Processes
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Ľudovít Dobrovský, CSc., dr. h. c.

Subject syllabus

Physical chemistry, signification.
Ideal and real gases.

Chemical thermodynamics. Heat capacities, heating and cooling of substances, thermodynamic terms.
The first law of thermodynamics, internal energy, enthalpy, variation of the reaction enthalpy with temperature, adiabatic reaction temperature. The work done by ideal gas.

The second law of thermodynamics – Carnot heat engine, entropy and its interpretation (temperature and volume dependence, temperature and pressure dependence).

Helmholtz and Gibbs free energy, combined formulations of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, Maxwell relations, conditions of thermodynamic equilibrium. Partial molar quantities, chemical potential, activity.

Chemical equilibriums, equilibrium constant for homogeneous nad heterogeneous chemical reactions, Van´t Hoff reaction isotherm. The Le Chatelier’s principle.

Phase equilibrium - conditions of phase equilibrium. Gibbs phase rule, phase, one-component system, triple point, two-component (binary) system, classification of solutions, ideal and real solutions. Colligative properties of nonelectrolyte solutions – solutions with non-volatile solute. Two-component liquid mixtures (miscible liquids, partially miscible liquids, totally immiscible liquids). Distribution equilibrium, Nernst’s distribution law, extraction.

Literature

Atkins,P.W., Physical Chemistry. Fourth Edition, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1993. 995 p.
Lupis,C.H.P.Chemical Thermodynamics of materials. New York, North-Holland,
1983. 581 p.

Advised literature

No advised literature has been specified for this subject.