Assignments in Physical Chemistry, CHEM 443
University of Delaware
Fall, 2011

  • This is a tentative assignment sheet.  Check back often for changes as the semester progresses.
  • Reading assignments refer to sections. Read sections BEFORE topics are discussed in lecture; reread afterwards; reread again, if necessary.
  • Problems are to be attempted immediately after studying material.  If you have difficulty with a problem, seek help immediately from an instructor; rework problems until you are certain that you know the concepts involved in problem-solving, not just how to solve a particular problem.  It helps to work ahead on problems.  Above all, do not fall behind.
  • Answers to many problems are available in Student’s Solutions Manual for Physical Chemistry by Thomas Engel and Philip Reid, available from the publisher.  Try other problems at the end of each chapter to see if you understand how to work problems.
  • You are welcome to study together, but be sure YOU have learned how to do problems on your own if you expect to pass the course.  Do not fool yourself. Seeing another person work a problem will not ingrain in you the problem-solving tools to answer quiz and exam questions.
  • Be sure to read the Course Policies: http://www.udel.edu/pchem/C443/c443pol.htm

PERIOD

ASSIGNMENT

Week 1
beginning 9/5

1: 1-5; 7: 1-5
Introduction to Course; Temperature Scales; Ideal Gas Thermometer; Properties of Matter; Equations of State; Math Review

Appendix A.1 – A.4

1.    1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 14, 18, 21

Week 2
beginning 9/12
Quiz 1

2: 1-10

First Law of Thermodynamics; Work Interactions; Heat; Heat Capacity; State Functions; Path Functions; Reversibility; Internal Energy

2.     1,2, 7, 9, 12, 20

   

Week 3
beginning 9/19
Quiz 2

3: 1-8

 
First Law; Enthalpy; Joule Free Expansion; Joule-Thomson Experiment; Temperature and Volume Dependence of Internal Energy; Temperature and Pressure Dependence of Enthalpy;

3.      2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 15, 31

   

Week 4
beginning 9/26
Quiz 3

4: 1-5

Thermodynamic Calculations using First Law; Reversible Expansion/Compression of Ideal Gas; Adiabatic Processes; Thermochemistry; Hess' Law; Heat of Formation; Heat of Reactions; Temperature Dependence of Heats of Reaction; Calorimetry

4.      2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 20

Week 5
beginning 10/03

7: 1-4; 

Real / Non-Ideal Fluids; Equations of State for Real Fluids; Compressibility Factor; Virial Equations of State; Cubic Equations of State; Relevance of Atomic Properties in Real Fluid Equations of State; Connection between Real Fluid EOS Parameters and Critical Constants thermochemistry

7.     1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19

    

Midterm Exam 1, Friday, October 7, 10:10 - 11 am, 222 Gore Hall

PERIOD

ASSIGNMENT

Week 6
beginning 10/10

Quiz 4

5: 1-3
Entropy; Second Law; Heat Engines; Efficiency; Carnot Cycle / Engine; Reversible Engines; Thermodynamic Cycles

5.     2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 17

Week 7
beginning 10/17
Quiz 5

5: 4-14

Entropy Calculations; Microscopic View of Entropy; Third Law; Standard States

5.     1, 12, 17, 23, 26, 28, 34, 35, 40, 43, 44

Week 8
beginning 10/24

Quiz 6

6: 1-15
Gibbs and Helmholtz energies; Gibbs energy of mixing  Equilibrium Criteria; Criteria for Spontaneous Processes; Chemical Potential; Chemical Reaction Equilibria; Equilibrium Constant

6.     1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 17, 22

Week 9
beginning 10/31

Quiz 7

8: 1-9  

Clapeyron equation; Clausius-Clapeyron equation; chemical potential and phase transitions

8.     3, 5, 7, 19, 24

Week 10
beginning 11/7

8: 1-9
Phase Diagrams; Vapor Liquid Equilibria; Chemical Equilibrium

8.     3, 5, 7 , 19, 24

Midterm Exam 2, Friday, November 11, 10:10 - 11 am, 222 Gore Hall

PERIOD

ASSIGNMENT

Week 11
beginning 11/14

Quiz 8

9: 1-13
Solutions; Raoult's law; Henry's law; colligative properties

9.     1, 6, 13, 19, 26

Week 12
beginning 11/21
Quiz 9

10: 1-5
Ionic solutions

10.   1, 3, 7

Week 13
beginning 11/28

10:  1-5

Electrochemistry

10.   10, 20, 27

Thanksgiving Recess, November 23- 27 No classes, Classes Resume November 28, 2011

PERIOD

ASSIGNMENT

Week 14
beginning 12/5
Quiz 10

11: 1-16

Thermodynamics of electrical cells

11.   3, 5, 12, 14, 16

Week 15
beginning 12/13

Semester review

 

Last class day: December 7, 2011

Final Exam: December ??, TBA

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