Physical Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
1000+ 人选课
更新日期:2025/06/07
开课时间2025/02/22 - 2025/06/15
课程周期17 周
开课状态开课中
每周学时-
课程简介

The key concepts of physical chemistry date back to late 19th century. It is inherently multidisciplinary and aims to establish a basic theoretical framework for quantitative and systematic study of chemical systems from the perspective of the fundamental laws of physical science. To date, physical chemistry research focuses on a wide variety of chemical-related issues span from macroscopic to microscopic, from equilibrium to dynamic, and so on.

This online open course of “physical chemistry” is an English brand course for international students by Ministry of Education, national excellent resource sharing course, national bilingual demonstration course and Liaoning excellent course. The teaching team of this course is led by Professor Min Ji, including Professor Yantao Shi, Associate Professor Fuping Tian, Xuedan Song, Guanglan Li, Wei Liu and Professor Ce Hao. The team members have extremely abundant teaching experience, and have acquired plentiful provincial and school-level teaching achievement awards.

This course will provide a systematic study of physical chemistry, including the main sub-topics of  (1) thermodynamics, (2) quantum chemistry, (3) statistical thermodynamics, (4) kinetics, (5) surface and interface, and so on. Through the study of this course, you will learn to observe and recognize the numerous phenomena related to physical chemistry from a novel perspective. For example: Why does the lotus grow unsullied in the mud? Why water strider can float on the water? How to turn graphite into diamond? Why can lithium-ion batteries completely replace traditional alkaline rechargeable batteries? Why can brine pick out tofu, and deltas are easily formed where rivers enter the sea? Welcome to join us and discover the answers to such fundamental questions and more.

课程大纲
Chap 1 The first law of thermodynamics
1.1 some basic concepts
1.2 some basic concepts
1.3 work, heat, the calcualtion of volume work
1.4 the first law
1.5 Cp,m, CV,m, application of the first law
1.6 thermochemistry
1.7 Hess Law, calculation of enthalpy of reaction
1.8 State functions and exact differentials
1.9 p-dependence of enthalpy
Chap 2 The second law of thermodynamics
2.1a some basic concepts
2.1b Carnot cycle
2.2a Entropy
2.2b calculation of delta S
2.3a the third law of thermodynamics
2.3b further discusstion on S
2.4a Helmholtz and Gibbs Energy
2.4b fundamenatal equations of thermodynamics
2.5a Maxwell Equations
2.5b Chemical Potential
Chap 3 Simple mixture
3.1a Partial molar quantity
3.1b chemical potential of pure ideal gas
3.2a ideal solution
3.2b ideal dilute solution
3.3a colligative properties
3.4a electrolyte solution
3.4b ionic strength
Chap 4 Phase diagram
4.1 basic concepts
4.2 Clapeyron equation and C-C equation
4.3 one component phase diagram
4.4 two component phase diagram
4.5 lever rule, T-x phase diagram
4.6 the distillation of mixture
4.7 fully immiscible system
4.8 partially miscible system
4.9 solid-liquid phase diagram - Eutectics
4.10 Application of solid-liquid phase diagram - Eutectics
4.11 Reacting system - congruent melting and incongruent melting
Chap 5 Chemical equilibrium
5.1 condition of chemical equilibrium
5.2 calculation of delta rGm, Van't Hoff equation
5.3 the response of equilibrium to the conditions
Chap 6 Chemical kinetics
6.1 Introduction, Rate laws and reaction order
6.2 Measurement of reaction rates, Reaction mechanisms and elementary reaction
6.3 The temperature dependence of reaction rates, kinetics of complex reaction
6.4 Catalyst,Reactions in solution, Photochemical reaction
6.5 Simple Collision Theory, Activated Complex Theory
6.6 Microscopic reaction kinetics
Chap 7 Surface and Interface
7.1 Surface Concept
7.2 Surface tension, Curved Surface, Surface adsorption of solution
7.3 Adsorption on solid surface
Chap 8 Colloids and macromolecules
8.1 Colloids, Properties of Colloid
8.2 Macromolecules
8.3 Nanochemistry
Chap 9 Electrochemistry
9.1 Electrolyte Solutions
9.2 Conductive Properties of Electrolyte Solutions, Electrochemical Cells
9.3 Thermodynamic and Kinetics of Electrochemistry
9.4 Electrochemical Power Sources and Corrosion
Chap10 Quantum chemistry
10.1 The failures of classical physics
10.2 Wave-Particle Duality
10.3 Wavefunction
10.4 The dynamics of microscopic systems
10.5 Quantum mechanical principles
10.6 Some Analytically Soluble Problems
Chap11 Statistical Thermodynamics
11.1 The concepts
11.2 Boltzmann distribution, Partition function of particles
11.3 Relations between thermodynamic properties and partition function,Statistical thermodynamic properties of perfect gas