09-106 Course Syllabus

Thermodynamic Processes and Thermochemistry (Chapter 7)

• Conservation Laws
• Energy forms
• Work
• First Law
• System and surroundings
• Endothermic and exothermic changes and heat
• Enthalpy
• State and state functions
• Process paths
• Isothermal changes
• Illustrations using Ideal Gases
• Thermochemistry
• Hess' Law
• Standard State
• Standard state enthalpies
• Enthalpy of formation
• Bond enthalpies

Spontaneous Processes and Thermodynamic Equilibrium (Chapter 8)

• Spontaneity and randomness
• Reversible and irreversible cycles
• Second Law
• Carnot cycle and entropy
• Entropy changes
• Third Law
• (Gibbs) Free Energy and Spontaneity
• Free Energy change with temperature

Chemical Equilibrium: Basic Principles and Applications to Gas-Phase Reactions (Chapter 9)

• Chemical Reactions and equilibrium in gases
• Law of Mass Action and equilibrium constants
• The reaction quotient and LeChatelier's Principle
• Free energy and equilibrium constants
• Effects of temperature and pressure on equilibrium
• Dependence of vapor pressure on temperature

Acid-Base Equilibria (Chapter 10)

• Structure and characterization of acids and bases
• Quantifying acid and base strength
• Hydrolysis
• Buffers
• Titrations
• Equilibrium fractions (of species)
• Polyprotic acids

Heterogeneous Equilibria (Chapter 11)

• Non-ideal gases, solutions and "Activity"
• Solubility and the solubility product
• Precipitation
• Common Ion Effect
• Complexation

Solids, Liquids, and Phase Transitions (Chapter 5, part of this reviews material from 09-105)

• Bulk properties of phases of matter
• Water
• Phase equilibrium
• Phase transitions
• Phase diagrams

Solutions (Chapter 6, pp 176-191)

• Colligative properties of solutions
• Henry's Law
• Two-component pressure-composition phase diagrams

Electrochemistry (Chapter 12)

• Balancing oxidation-reduction equations
• Electrochemical cells
• Faraday's Laws
• Gibbs Free Energy and electrochemical work
• Standard States and Standard potentials (voltages)
• Nernst Equation
• Applications

Chemical Kinetics (Chapter 13)

• Measuring rates of reactions
• Rate Laws and "orders" of a reaction
• Elementary Reactions and Reaction Mechanisms
• Kinetics and Equilibrium
• Steady state
• Effect of temperature on rate
• (Enzyme) catalysis (including Competitive Inhibition)