Recorded on April 11, 2012.

Slide Information
00:20 - Introduction
00:32 - Curvature of the Conical Intersection Seam: An Approximate Second-Order Analysis
01:15 - Announcements
02:24 - Syllabus
13:50 - Lectures
15:58 - Results
17:41 - More Information about Lecture Format ("I use powerpoint...")
18:47 - Example of Lecture Format
19:23 - Each Week-Three Inputs (Lecture Format)
21:36 - What Are We Going to Learn This Quarter?
25:50 - What's in this Lecture?
25:58 - Quantum Mechanics is Discovered (Timeline)
26:20 - Pioneers in Quantum Mechanics (Timeline)
31:26 - James Clerk Maxwell
31:44 - Maxwell Invented Free Color Photography
31:57 - First color photograph Example
32:25 - Ludwig Boltzmann
33:11 - Boltzmann's Grave in Vienna
33:23 - Willard Gibbs:
35:05 - Grove Street Cemetery:
35:35 - Statistical Mechanics: Why do We Need it?
36:40 - Using Thermodynamics
37:15 - Statistical Mechanics Establishes this Connection
37:54 - The Free Energy of Ammonia
38:32 - "Elements of Statistical Thermodynamics" Book (by Leonard K. Nash)
39:32 - Books to Buy:
40:16 - ...Consider a Molecule Having Evenly Spaced Energy Levels
40:42 - We can approximate its state distribution as shown here:
40:54 - The quantum numbers of these evenly spaced (by hv...)
40:58 - ...now imagine that you have a 3-dimensional array molecules...
42:06 - Now let's add three quanta of energy to these three molecules.
43:30 - Microstate
43:38 - Ten microstates in total:
43:42 - The 10 microstates exist in just three configurations.
44:46 - Examples of Notations (Example II)
45:08 - Examples of Configurations (I, II, III)
45:20 - Counting the Microstates Associated with Each Configuration
49:14 - Formula for Determining Total Number of Microstates

1. Syllabus, Homework, & Lectures
2. The Boltzmann Distribution Law
3. Energy and q (The Partition Function).
4. Entropy
5. The Equipartition Theorem
6. The Rotational Partition Function
7. Vibrational Partition Functions
8. The First Law
9. Law (review) & Adiabatic Processes Part II
10. Jim Joule
11. Midterm I Review
12. Entropy and The Second Law
13. The Carnot Cycle
14. The Gibbs Energy
15. Getting to Know The Gibbs Energy
16. The Chemical Potential
17. Finding Equilibrium
18. Equilibrium In Action
19. Observational Chemical Kinetics
20. The Integrated Rate Law
21. The Steady State Approximation
22. Midterm Exam Review
23. Lindemann-Hinshelwood Part I
24. Lindemann-Hinshelwood Part II
25. Enzymes Pt. II
26. Transition State Theory
27. The Final Exam

In Chemistry 131C, students will study how to calculate macroscopic chemical properties of systems. This course will build on the microscopic understanding (Chemical Physics) to reinforce and expand your understanding of the basic thermo-chemistry concepts from General Chemistry (Physical Chemistry.) We then go on to study how chemical reaction rates are measured and calculated from molecular properties. Topics covered include: Energy, entropy, and the thermodynamic potentials; Chemical equilibrium; and Chemical kinetics.

Chemistry Dept. | Physical Sciences Sch. | University of California, Irvine