Physical Chemistry 2

Core content

• Electrochemical cell and its notation, Nernst equation and the connection between cell potential and equilibrium constant.
• Statistical thermodynamics: Boltzman distribution, dominant configuration and their and its physical significance. Molecular partition function and molecular energy levels. Calculating the thermodynamic quantites from molecular partition functions.
• Transport phenomena: diffusion, heat transport in gas phase, viscosity, ionic conductivity.
• Chemical kinetics: reaction rate, rate laws, integrated rate laws, order of reaction, elementary reactions, steady-state approximation, activated complex theory.
• Complex reaction mechanisms, homogeneous catalysis, enzyme catalysis, heterogenous catalysis, Langmuir adsorption isotherm, radical chain reactions.

Complementary knowledge

• Cell potential and activity coefficients.
• Canonical partition function and residual entropy.
• viscocity for liquids, experimental setups for determining diffusion coefficients, measuring viscosities, sedimentation.
• Determining the rate of reactions, diffusion controlled reactions, potential energy surfaces in chemical reactions, experimental techniques for measuring reaction rates.
• Preequilibrium approximation. Lindeman mechanism, infibitors, photophysical properties, Jablonski diagram.

Specialist knowledge

• Perturbation-relaxation methhod,
• Fluorescence quantum yield, fluorescence lifetime, Stern-Volmer equation, photochemicl reactions.