Assignments in Physical Chemistry, CHEM 443
University of Delaware
Fall, 2007

  • 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 most of these 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
first class - 8/29

1: 1-5; 7: 1-5
Properties of matter; equations of state

Appendix A.1 – A.4

1.    1, 4, 11, 18

Week 2
beginning 9/3
Quiz 1

7: 1-4

30: 1-6

Real gases and the law of corresponding states; equations of state for solids and liquids; probability

7.     2, 7, 9, 12, 20

30.    1, 2

Week 3
beginning 9/10
Quiz 2

31: 1-5

34:  1-5
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution

30.    7,  9, 14

34.    3, 6, 12, 21

Week 4
beginning 9/17
Quiz 3

2: 1-10

First Law; energy, heat and work; enthalpy; thermodynamic calculations

2.      1, 4, 6, 19, 27

Week 5
beginning 9/24
Quiz 4 

3: 1-8;  4: 1-6

Heat capacities; variation with temperature; Joule-Thomson experiment; thermochemistry

3.     3, 6, 8, 12, 15

4.     1, 4, 20

Week 6
beginning 10/1

 

5: 1-7
Entropy; Second Law

5.     2, 5, 9, 10

Midterm Exam 1, Saturday, October 6, 9-11 am

PERIOD

ASSIGNMENT

Week 7
beginning 10/8
Quiz 5

5: 8-14

Third Law; standard states

5.     12, 17, 23, 26, 28

Week 8
beginning 10/15

Quiz 6

6: 1-6
Gibbs and Helmholtz energies; Gibbs energy of mixing 

6.     1, 3, 5

Week 9
beginning 10/22
(No class on 10/26)

6: 7-15
Chemical equilibrium; chemical potential; thermodynamics of chemical reactions

6.     8, 10, 17, 22

Week 10
beginning 10/29

8: 1-9  

Phase Rule; Clausius-Clapeyron equation

8.     3, 5, 7, 19, 24

Midterm Exam 2, Saturday, November 3, 9-11 am

PERIOD

ASSIGNMENT

Week 11
beginning 11/5

Quiz 7

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

9.     1, 6, 13, 19, 26

Week 12
beginning 11/12
Quiz 8

10: 1-5
Ionic solutions

10.   1, 3, 7

Week 13
beginning 11/19

10:  1-5

Electrochemistry

10.   10, 20, 27

Thanksgiving Recess, November 22- 23 No classes

PERIOD

ASSIGNMENT

Week 14
beginning 11/26
Quiz 9

11: 1-16

Thermodynamics of electrical cells

11.   3, 5, 12, 14, 16

Week 15
beginning 12/3

Semester review

 

Last class day: December 5, 2007

Final Exam: To be announced

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