Lecture Description
Recorded on May 7, 2012.
Slide Information
02:15 - Introduction (The Gibbs Energy)
03:30 - ...just one of these guys won Nobel Prize - which one?
07:14 - J. Willard Gibbs (1839 - 1903)
10:44 - ...has its own Facebook page
10:57 - buried in the Grove Street cemetery...
11:10 - Map "...Yale campus"
11:37 - Map II
12:10 - we now know some basic thermodynamics concepts and their statistical...
12:52 - Diagram: The system and the surroundings: Three flavors...
13:39 - Diagram: For an isolated system, the entropy of the system increases during a spontaneous process:
14:13 - Diagram: If the system isn't isolated, then the entropy of both the system...
15:03 - For an isolated system, the entropy of the system increases...
16:26 - (cont) q is a conserved quantity...
17:59 - now multiply by...
26:04 - but in chemistry, T is frequently constant...
28:02 - for any process occurring at const. volume...
Course Index
- Syllabus, Homework, & Lectures
- The Boltzmann Distribution Law
- Energy and q (The Partition Function).
- Entropy
- The Equipartition Theorem
- The Rotational Partition Function
- Vibrational Partition Functions
- The First Law
- Law (review) & Adiabatic Processes Part II
- Jim Joule
- Midterm I Review
- Entropy and The Second Law
- The Carnot Cycle
- The Gibbs Energy
- Getting to Know The Gibbs Energy
- The Chemical Potential
- Finding Equilibrium
- Equilibrium In Action
- Observational Chemical Kinetics
- The Integrated Rate Law
- The Steady State Approximation
- Midterm Exam Review
- Lindemann-Hinshelwood Part I
- Lindemann-Hinshelwood Part II
- Enzymes Pt. II
- Transition State Theory
- The Final Exam
Course Description
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