Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics

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I. THERMODYNAMICS: Gas Properties
Lecture 1
Introduction
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Introduction
Physical chemistry microlecture introducing the basics of thermodynamics and contrasting classical thermodynamics with statistical mechanics.
Lecture 2
Ideal Gas Equation
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Ideal Gas Equation
Physical chemistry microlecture on the ideal gas equation, pressure, volume, energy, and temperature, and intensive and extensive properties.
Lecture 3
van der Waals Gas Equation
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van der Waals Gas Equation
Physical chemistry microlecture on the van der Waal's equation of state as the simplest model which goes beyond the ideal gas law.
Lecture 4
Gas Equation Example
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Gas Equation Example
Physical chemistry microlecture demonstrating the use of the ideal gas and van der Waal's equations of state to calculate the pressure of a gas.
Lecture 5
Virial Equation of State
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Virial Equation of State
Physical chemistry microlecture on the virial equation of state and the meaning of the second virial coefficient.
Lecture 6
Molecular Interaction Functions
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Molecular Interaction Functions
Physical chemistry microlecture on various functional forms of the pair potential between gas particles.
Lecture 7
Critical Point
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Critical Point
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the critical point and critical properties in terms of the van der Waals equation of state.
Lecture 8
Reduced Properties
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Reduced Properties
Physical chemistry microlecture introducing reduced pressure, temperature, and molar volume.
Lecture 9
Gas Properties Review
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Gas Properties Review
Physical chemistry microlecture briefly reviewing the properties of gases in chemical thermodynamics.
II. Introduction to Statistical Mechanics
Lecture 10
Energy Quantization
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Energy Quantization
Physical chemistry microlecture on energy quantization and the partitioning of molecular energy between electronic, vibrational, rotational, and translational degrees of freedom.
Lecture 11
Boltzmann Factor
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Boltzmann Factor
Physical chemistry microlecture the Boltzmann factor, state probabilities, and partition function.
Lecture 12
Average Ensemble Energy
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Average Ensemble Energy
Physical chemistry microlecture on using the partition function to calculate to average energy of a molecular ensemble.
Lecture 13
Partition Function Example 1
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Partition Function Example 1
Physical chemistry microlecture example calculation using the partition function of an ideal gas to calculate average energy and molar energy.
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Partition Function Example 2
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Partition Function Example 2
Physical chemistry microlecture example calculation using the partition function of an ideal gas to calculate heat capacity and molar heat capacity.
Lecture 15
Partition Function Example 3
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Partition Function Example 3
Physical chemistry microlecture demonstrating the use of the partition function of a collection of monatomic ideal gas particles to calculate the average pressure of the gas.
Lecture 16
Molecular Partition Function 1
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Molecular Partition Function 1
Physical chemistry microlecture on going from the partition function of a single particle to a partition function of N indistinguishable, independent particles.
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Molecular Partition Function 2
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Molecular Partition Function 2
Physical chemistry microlecture on the components to the molecular partition function, including translational, rotational, vibrational, and electronic components.
Lecture 18
Translational Partition Function
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Translational Partition Function
Physical chemistry microlecture on the translational component of the molecular partition function for an ideal gas.
Lecture 19
Rotational Partition Function
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Rotational Partition Function
Physical chemistry microlecture on the rotational component of the molecular partition function of an ideal gas.
Lecture 20
Statistical Mechanics Review
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Statistical Mechanics Review
Physical chemistry microlecture briefly reviewing the basic concepts of statistical mechanics.
III. First Law of Thermodynamics: Enthalpy
Lecture 21
First Law
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First Law
Physical chemistry microlecture introducing the first law of thermodynamics, system types, heat, and work.
Lecture 22
Pressure-Volume Work
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Pressure-Volume Work
Physical chemistry microlecture on the pressure-volume work done on a system during expansion or compression of an ideal gas.
Lecture 23
State and Path Functions
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State and Path Functions
Physical chemistry microlecture on states, state functions, and path functions including internal energy, heat, and work.
Lecture 24
Reversible Processes
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Reversible Processes
Physical chemistry microlecture on isothermal expansion and compression of an ideal gas in a reversible way.
Lecture 25
Isothermal Processes
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Isothermal Processes
Physical chemistry microlecture on the heat produced during a reversible isothermal expansion or compression of an ideal gas.
Lecture 26
Adiabatic Processes
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Adiabatic Processes
Physical chemistry microlecture on the temperature change during a reversible adiabatic expansion or compression of an ideal gas.
Lecture 27
Adiabatic / Isothermal Comparison
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Adiabatic / Isothermal Comparison
Physical chemistry microlecture comparing and contrasting reversible adiabatic and isothermal expansion and compression of an ideal gas.
Lecture 28
Microscopic Heat and Work
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Microscopic Heat and Work
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the microscopic statistical mechanical interpretation of heat and work during reversible expansion/compression of an ideal gas.
Lecture 29
Enthalpy
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Enthalpy
Physical chemistry microlecture introducing enthalpy as the thermodynamic quantity which corresponds to heat during a constant pressure process.
Lecture 30
Enthalpy Example
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Enthalpy Example
Physical chemistry microlecture demonstrating the use of enthalpy to calculate the internal energy change during the vaporization of liquid nitrogen.
Lecture 31
Heat Capacity
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Heat Capacity
Physical chemistry microlecture on constant volume and constant pressure heat capacities and their differences.
Lecture 32
Transition Enthalpy
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Transition Enthalpy
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the temperature dependence of enthalpy of the enthalpy of phase transitions.
Lecture 33
Reaction Enthalpy
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Reaction Enthalpy
Physical chemistry microlecture discussion the enthalpy change during chemical reactions and standard molar reaction enthalpy.
Lecture 34
Hess's Law
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Hess's Law
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing Hess's Law for the calculation of reaction enthalpy of multi-step reactions.
Lecture 35
Formation Enthalpy
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Formation Enthalpy
Physical chemistry microlecture on the standard enthalpy of formation for creating chemical compounds from their elements.
Lecture 36
Hrxn from Hformation
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Hrxn from Hformation
Physical chemistry microlecture on calculating the enthalpy of reaction from the enthalpy of formation from the product and reactant species.
Lecture 37
Hrxn Temp Dependence
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Hrxn Temp Dependence
Physical chemistry microlecture on the changes that occur in the enthalpy of a reaction as temperature varies.
Lecture 38
First Law / Enthalpy Review
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First Law / Enthalpy Review
Physical chemistry microlecture briefly reviewing the concepts of the first law of thermodynamics and entahlpy.
IV. Second Law of Thermodynamics: Entropy
Lecture 39
Spontaneous Processes
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Spontaneous Processes
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the increase in disorder during spontaneous processes in isolated systems.
Lecture 40
Entropy
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Entropy
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the macroscopic definition of the differential of entropy as the differential of heat divided by temperature if the process is reversible.
Lecture 41
Expansion Entropy
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Expansion Entropy
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the entropy change during the reversible isothermal expansion or compression of an ideal gas.
Lecture 42
Second Law
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Second Law
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the second law of thermodynamics: entropy increases during any spontaneous process in an isolated system.
Lecture 43
Entropy Example
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Entropy Example
Physical chemistry microlecture demonstrating that in order to satisfy the second law of thermodynamics, heat most flow from hot to cold objects in an isolated system.
Lecture 44
Statistical Entropy
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Statistical Entropy
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the microscopic origin of entropy and the ergodic hypothesis in statistical mechanics.
Lecture 45
Gibbs Entropy
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Gibbs Entropy
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the calculation of entropy from the probability of all system microstates.
Lecture 46
Reversible Entropy
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Reversible Entropy
Physical chemistry microlecture demonstrating that for a reversible process the entropy change of the universe is zero.
Lecture 47
Heat Engines
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Heat Engines
Physical chemistry microlecture demonstrating the calculation of the maximum possible efficiency of a heat engine in converting heat from a hot reservoir into work.
Lecture 48
Second Law / Entropy Review
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Second Law / Entropy Review
Physical chemistry microlecture briefly reviewing concepts of the second law of thermodynamics and entropy.
V. Third Law of Thermodynamics: Absolute Entropy
Lecture 49
Entropy Temp Dependence 1
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Entropy Temp Dependence 1
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the temperature dependence of entropy at constant volume.
Lecture 50
Entropy Temp Dependence 2
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Entropy Temp Dependence 2
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the temperature dependence of entropy with temperature at constant pressure.
Lecture 51
Third Law
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Third Law
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the Third Law of Thermodynamics: the entropy of a perfect crystal at zero Kelvin is zero.
Lecture 52
Transition Entropy
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Transition Entropy
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the entropy change during a constant pressure phase transition and the value of entropy as a function of temperature.
Lecture 53
Debye T^3 Law
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Debye T^3 Law
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the Debye T^3 Law which predicts that the constant pressure heat capacity of a substance approaches zero as the temperature approaches absolute zero.
Lecture 54
Absolute Calorimetric Entropy
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Absolute Calorimetric Entropy
Physical chemistry microlecture on the determination of the absolute value of entropy of a chemical substance from calorimetry experiments which determine the constant pressure heat capacity as a function of temperature.
Lecture 55
Absolute Statistical Entropy
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Absolute Statistical Entropy
Physical chemistry microlecture demonstrating the calculation of the absolute value of entropy for a chemical species from the partition function.
Lecture 56
Residual Entropy
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Residual Entropy
Physical chemistry microlecture on residual entropy, the difference between the calculated entropy from statistical mechanics and the experimentally measured entropy from calorimetry.
Lecture 57
Reaction Entropy
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Reaction Entropy
Physical chemistry microlecture on the use of standard molar entropies to calculate the standard entropy change of a chemical reaction.
Lecture 58
Third Law / Absolute Entropy Review
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Third Law / Absolute Entropy Review
Physical chemistry microlecture briefly reviewing the concepts of the third law of thermodynamics and the absolute magnitude of entropy.
VI. Gibbs and Helmholtz Free Energies
Lecture 59
Helmholtz Energy
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Helmholtz Energy
Physical chemistry microlecture on the Helmholtz energy and conditions for a spontaneous process at constant temperature and volume.
Lecture 60
Gibbs Energy
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Gibbs Energy
Physical chemistry microlecture on the Gibbs energy and the conditions for a spontaneous process at constant temperature and pressure.
Lecture 61
Natural Variables
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Natural Variables
Physical chemistry on the natural variables on which thermodynamic energy functions are dependent.
Lecture 62
Maxwell Relations: Concept
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Maxwell Relations: Concept
Physical chemistry microlecture on the derivation of Maxwell relations from the equality of mixed partial second derivatives.
Lecture 63
Maxwell Relations: Summary
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Maxwell Relations: Summary
Physical chemistry microlecture on the Maxwell relations obtained from the total differentials of internal energy, enthalpy, Helmholtz energy, and Gibbs energy.
Lecture 64
Maxwell Relations: Example
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Maxwell Relations: Example
Physical chemistry microlecture on using the Maxwell relations from the Helmholtz energy to calculate the entropy change during the reversible isothermal expansion of an ideal gas.
Lecture 65
Standard Entropy Correction
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Standard Entropy Correction
Physical chemistry microlecture on the correction for the molar entropy of a non-ideal gas to assume the required ideal gas behavior of the standard state molar entropy.
Lecture 66
Gibbs-Helmholtz Equation
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Gibbs-Helmholtz Equation
Physical chemistry microlecture on the temperature and pressure dependence of the Gibbs energy and derivation of the Gibbs-Helmholtz equation.
Lecture 67
Fugacity
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Fugacity
Physical chemistry microlecture on the correspondence between fugacity and pressure for the molar Gibbs energy for real and ideal gasses.
Lecture 68
Fugacity Coefficient
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Fugacity Coefficient
Physical chemistry microlecture on the fugacity coefficient and the correction of the molar Gibbs energy for the non-ideal behavior of a gas.
Lecture 69
Gibbs / Helmholtz Energy Review
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Gibbs / Helmholtz Energy Review
Physical chemistry microlecture briefly reviewing concepts of the Gibbs energy and Helmholtz energy.
VII. Phase Diagrams
Lecture 70
Phase Diagrams
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Phase Diagrams
Physical chemistry microlecture on phase diagrams, coexistence curves, and phase equilibria.
Lecture 71
Gibbs Energy of Phases
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Gibbs Energy of Phases
Physical chemistry microlecture on the Gibbs energy of phases of a chemical species as a function of temperature and pressure.
Lecture 72
Chemical Potential
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Chemical Potential
Physical chemistry microlecture on the chemical potential of different phases and phase equilibria.
Lecture 73
Clapeyron Equation
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Clapeyron Equation
Physical chemistry microlecture on the temperature and pressure dependence of coexistence curves and the Clapeyron equation.
Lecture 74
Clausius-Clapeyron Equation
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Clausius-Clapeyron Equation
Physical chemistry microlecture on the Clausius-Clapeyron equation which predicts the vapor pressure of a substance as a function of temperature given the molar enthalpy of vaporization and the vapor pressure at one temperature.
Lecture 75
Statistical Chemical Potential
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Statistical Chemical Potential
Physical chemistry microlecture which derives an expression for the chemical potential in terms of the statistical mechanical partition function.
Lecture 76
Phase Diagrams Review
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Phase Diagrams Review
Physical chemistry microlecture briefly reviewing concepts of phase equilibria and phase diagrams.
VIII. Liquid-Liquid Solutions
Lecture 77
Partial Molar Quantities
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Partial Molar Quantities
Physical chemistry microlecture on partial molar quantities for components of a solution.
Lecture 78
Gibbs-Duhem Equation
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Gibbs-Duhem Equation
Physical chemistry microlecture on the Gibbs-Duhem equation which relates the chemical potential of components of a solution to one another.
Lecture 79
Solution Chemical Potential
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Solution Chemical Potential
Physical chemistry microlecture on the chemical potential of the components of a liquid-liquid solution and the vapor which is in equilibrium with the solution.
Lecture 80
Raoult's Law
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Raoult's Law
Physical chemistry microlecture on Raoult's Law and the criteria for ideal solutions.
Lecture 81
Pressure-Composition Diagram
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Pressure-Composition Diagram
Physical chemistry microlecture on the composition of the liquid phase and vapor phase of a binary ideal solution as a function of pressure.
Lecture 82
Temperature-Composition Diagram
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Temperature-Composition Diagram
Physical chemistry microlecture on the composition of the liquid phase and vapor phase of a binary ideal solution as a function of temperature.
Lecture 83
Energy of Mixing
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Energy of Mixing
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the change in Gibb's energy, enthalpy, entropy, and volume that occurs upon mixing liquids to form a solution.
Lecture 84
Henry's Law
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Henry's Law
Physical chemistry microlecture on the vapor pressure of a solute at low concentration in a non-ideal solution as predicted by Henry's law.
Lecture 85
Activity
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Activity
Physical chemistry microlecture developing activity as an analogue for mole fraction in non-ideal solutions.
Lecture 86
Standard Activity
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Standard Activity
Physical chemistry microlecture on the use of Raoult's Law or Henry's law to define the standard state for activity.
Lecture 87
Liquid-Liquid Solutions Review
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Liquid-Liquid Solutions Review
Physical chemistry microlecture briefly reviewing concepts of liquid-liquid solutions.
IX. Solid-Liquid Solutions
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Molality and Molarity
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Molality and Molarity
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the activity of solutes in solid-liquid solutions and the definition of activity coefficients in terms of mole fraction, molality, and molarity.
Lecture 89
Non-Volatile Solutes
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Non-Volatile Solutes
Physical chemistry microlecture deriving the activity and activity coefficient of non-volatile solutes in terms of the activity of the solvent via the Gibbs-Duhem equation.
Lecture 90
Colligative Properties
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Colligative Properties
Physical chemistry microlecture introducing the concept of colligative properties and the equations for freezing point depression, boiling point elevation, and osmotic pressure.
Lecture 91
Freezing Point Depression
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Freezing Point Depression
Physical chemistry microlecture deriving the freezing point depression constant for solvents from the chemical potential of each phase.
Lecture 92
Osmotic Pressure
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Osmotic Pressure
Physical chemisry microlecture deriving the proportional relationship between solute concentration and osmotic pressure.
Lecture 93
Electrolyte Activity
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Electrolyte Activity
Physical chemistry microlecture on the chemical potential, activity, and activity coefficients of strong electrolytes in solution.
Lecture 94
Debye-Huckel Law
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Debye-Huckel Law
Physical chemistry microlecture on the Debye-Huckel limiting law for the activity coefficient of strong electrolytes in the limit of dilute solution.
Lecture 95
Solid-Liquid Solutions Review
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Solid-Liquid Solutions Review
Physical chemistry microlecture briefly reviewing concepts of solid-liquid solutions.
X. Chemical Equilibrium
Lecture 96
Extent of Reaction
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Extent of Reaction
Physical chemistry microlecture on the number of moles of reactants and products, and the extent of reaction.
Lecture 97
Equilibrium Constant Derivation
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Equilibrium Constant Derivation
Physical chemistry microlecture deriving the equilibrium constant from the expressions for chemical potential and extent of reaction.
Lecture 98
Le Chatalier's Principle
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Le Chatalier's Principle
Physical chemistry microlecture on the response of a chemical reaction equilibrium to a change in pressure as an example of Le Chatalier's principle.
Lecture 99
Concentration Equilibrium Constant
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Concentration Equilibrium Constant
Physical chemistry microlecture on expressing the equilibrium constant in terms of the concentrations of ideal gasses instead of their partial pressures.
Lecture 100
Standard Reaction Gibbs Energy
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Standard Reaction Gibbs Energy
Physical chemistry microlecture on calculating the standard Gibbs energy of reaction from the standard Gibbs energy of formation of reactants and products and their stiochiometric coefficients.
Lecture 101
Equilibrium Gibbs Energy
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Equilibrium Gibbs Energy
Physical chemistry microlecture on minimizing the Gibbs energy of a system of chemical species
Lecture 102
Reaction Quotient
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Reaction Quotient
Physical chemistry microlecture on the reaction quotient, its relation to the equilibrium constant, and the Gibbs energy of reaction.
Lecture 103
Reaction Spontaneity
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Reaction Spontaneity
Physical chemistry microlecture on the criteria for a spontaneous reaction at various temperatures based on the sign of the enthalpy and entropy of reaction.
Lecture 104
Van't Hoff Equation
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Van't Hoff Equation
Physical chemistry microlecture on the Van't Hoff equation, which describes the temperature dependence of the equilibrium constant.
Lecture 105
Fugacity Equilibrium Constant
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Fugacity Equilibrium Constant
Physical chemistry microlecture deriving the equilibrium constant for real (non-ideal) gasses in terms of partial fugacities.
Lecture 106
Activity Equilibrium Constant
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Activity Equilibrium Constant
Physical chemistry microlecture deriving the equilibrium constant for a general non-ideal chemical system in terms of the activity of each chemical species.
Lecture 107
Condensed Phase Activity
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Condensed Phase Activity
Physical chemistry microlecture on the activity of condensed phase (solid and liquid) chemical species.
Lecture 108
Equilibrium Review
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Equilibrium Review
Physical chemistry microlecture briefly reviewing concepts of chemical reaction equilibrium.
XI. Electrochemistry
Lecture 109
Electrochemical Cells
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Electrochemical Cells
Physical chemistry microlecture describing the setup of an electrochemical cell for oxidation-reduction reactions.
Lecture 110
Half Cell Reactions
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Half Cell Reactions
Physical chemistry microlecture on half cell reactions within electrochemical cells.
Lecture 111
Cell Diagrams
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Cell Diagrams
Physical chemistry microlecture on cell diagrams as an abbreviation for the composition of an electrochemical cell.
Lecture 112
Electromotive Force
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Electromotive Force
Physical chemistry microlecture on the electromotive force of an electrochemical cell and its connection to the spontaneity of an oxidation-reduction reaction.
Lecture 113
Nernst Equation
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Nernst Equation
Physical chemistry microlecture on the Nernst equation, which connect the electromotive force of an electrochemical cell to the Gibbs energy of reaction.
Lecture 114
Standard Reduction Potential
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Standard Reduction Potential
Physical chemistry microlecture on the standard reduction potential, which can be used to calculate the standard EMF of an electrochemical cell.
Lecture 115
Electrochemistry Example
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Electrochemistry Example
Physical chemistry microlecture performing an example calculation of the EMF, standard EMF, Gibbs energy, and standard Gibbs energy of an electrochemical cell.
Lecture 116
Electrochemical Enthalpy and Entropy
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Electrochemical Enthalpy and Entropy
Physical chemistry microlecture on the calculation of enthalpy and entropy of reaction from the temperature dependence of the EMF of an electrochemical cell.
Lecture 117
Ionic Gibbs Energy
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Ionic Gibbs Energy
Physical chemistry microlecture on the calculation of the standard Gibbs energy of formation of aqueous ions.
Lecture 118
Solubility Product
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Solubility Product
Physical chemistry microlecture on the solubility product, which is an equlibrium constant for the aqueous solvation of a salt.
Lecture 119
Batteries
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Batteries
Physical chemistry microlecture on batteries and the chemical reactions which take place inside them.
Lecture 120
Electrochemistry Review
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Electrochemistry Review
Physical chemistry microlecture briefly reviewing concepts of electrochemistry and electrochemical cells.
Lecture 121
Summary of Thermodynamics Chapters
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Summary of Thermodynamics Chapters
Physical chemistry microlecture briefly reviewing the major concepts from chemical thermodynamics, including gas properties, statistical mechanics, the three laws of thermodynamics, Gibbs energy, phases, solutions, equilibrium, and electrochemistry.
XII. KINETICS: Kinetic Theory of Gases
Lecture 122
Introduction
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Introduction
Physical chemistry microlecture introducing the basics of kinetics including the kinetic theory of gasses, reaction rates, and reaction mechanisms.
Lecture 123
Average Kinetic Energy
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Average Kinetic Energy
Physical chemistry microlecture deriving the average kinetic energy of gas particles from the collision of a single particle with a container wall.
Lecture 124
Average Velocity
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Average Velocity
Physical chemistry microlecture deriving the average velocity of a gas particle from the kinetic theory of gases and statistical mechanics.
Lecture 125
Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution
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Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution
Physical chemistry microlecture discussing the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, which describes the spread of speeds for gas particles at a given temperature.
Lecture 126
Mean Free Path
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Mean Free Path
Physical chemistry microlecture deriving the average distance and time between particle collisions for a gas particle.
Lecture 127
Total Collision Rate
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Total Collision Rate
Physical chemistry microlecture deriving the total number of molecular collisions which occur in a gas per unit volume per unit time.
Lecture 128
Kinetic Theory of Gases Review
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Kinetic Theory of Gases Review
Physical chemistry microlecture briefly reviewing concepts of the kinetic theory of gases.
XIII. Reaction Rates
Lecture 129
Reaction Rates
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Reaction Rates
Physical chemistry microlecture on reaction rates and the change of reactant and product concentrations over time.
Lecture 130
Rate Laws
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Rate Laws
Physical chemistry microlecture on chemical reaction rate laws and rate orders.
Lecture 131
First Order Reactions
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First Order Reactions
Physical chemistry microlecture on the integrated rate law for first order reactions.
Lecture 132
Second Order Reactions
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Second Order Reactions
Physical chemistry microlecture on the integrated rate law for second order reactions.
Lecture 133
Half Life
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Half Life
Physical chemistry microlecture on the reaction half life for first, second, and zero order reactions.
Lecture 134
Determining Rate Laws
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Determining Rate Laws
Physical chemistry microlecture showing how to determine the rate law exponents for a chemical reaction.
Lecture 135
Reversible Reactions
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Reversible Reactions
Physical chemistry microlecture on the integrated rate law for a reversible first order reaction.
Lecture 136
Activation Energy
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Activation Energy
Physical chemistry microlecture on the Arrhenius equation and the energy of activation.
Lecture 137
Reaction Coordinate
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Reaction Coordinate
Physical chemistry microlecture on energy vs. reaction coordinate diagrams, transition states, intermediates, and energy of activation.
Lecture 138
Reaction Rates Review
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Reaction Rates Review
Physical chemistry microlecture briefly reviewing concepts of chemical reaction rates.
XIV. Reaction Mechanisms
Lecture 139
Reaction Mechanisms
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Reaction Mechanisms
Physical chemistry microlecture on reaction mechanisms, i.e. the elementary steps which compose a complex reaction.
Lecture 140
Detailed Balance
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Detailed Balance
Physical chemistry microlecture on the principle of detailed balance which holds for all elementary reactions at equilibrium.
Lecture 141
Rate Determining Step
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Rate Determining Step
Physical chemistry microlecture on the kinetics of a complex reaction in which one rate constant is much slower than all others.
Lecture 142
Steady-State Approximation
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Steady-State Approximation
Physical chemistry microlecture on the steady state approximation, which says that the concentration of an intermediate is constant.
Lecture 143
Unimolecular Reactions
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Unimolecular Reactions
physical chemistry microlecture on first order elementary reactions and the Lindemann mechanism by which they occur.
Lecture 144
Catalysis
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Catalysis
Physical chemistry microlecture on the kinetics of catalysts, and how they effect rate laws and activation barriers.
Lecture 145
Michaelis-Menton Mechanism
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Michaelis-Menton Mechanism
Physical chemistry microlecture deriving the rate law for enzyme catalysis according to the assumptions of the Michaelis-Menton model.
Lecture 146
Reaction Mechanisms Review
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Reaction Mechanisms Review
Physical chemistry microlecture briefly reviewing concepts of reaction mechanisms in chemical kinetics.
Lecture 147
Summary of Kinetics Chapters
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Summary of Kinetics Chapters
Physical chemistry microlecture briefly reviewing concepts from chemical kinetics, including the kinetic theory of gases, reaction rates, and reaction mechanisms.