Recorded on May 2, 2012.

Slide Information
00:06 - Introduction: The Carnot Cycle (Lecture 13)
01:02 - Announcements
02:39 - Midterm I Score
07:04 - How Am I Doing (Scores)?
09:37 - Sadi Carnot
10:52 - A heat engine extracts work from a temperature gradient.
11:38 - The Carnot Cycle
12:43 - The Carnot Cycle (Graph)
12:56 - ...ANY process can be decomposed into a large number of Carnot Cycles, so...
14:59 - how efficient is a heat engine?
16:12 - Let's prove this:
16:37 - (Graph) now, this pair of (T,V) data points lie on an adiabat:
20:27 - Problem: What is the entropy change...
21:05 - Since S is a state function, we can write:
24:07 - Formulas: What do we know?
25:55 - so (once again) represented in a Temperature-Entropy...
26:43 - What if one or more steps of the process are irreversible?
30:13 - Rudolf Clausius!
30:50 - T-shirt of Clausius
31:31 - and a more general statement of this is called the Clausius Inequality
31:59 - let's say we transition from state I to state 2...
33:02 - according to the Clausius inequality:
33:42 -The Second Law of Thermodynamics.
33:48 - This equation makes predictions about 3 types of processes:
34:30 - If we consider, in particular, an isolated system...
35:18 - some simple but important examples:
36:55 - some simple but important examples: (II)
39:53- Because S, like U, is a state function, you can add...
40:34 - example - Calculate the entropy change when Ar gas...

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.

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