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CH20179: Physical chemistry 4 for visiting students

[Page last updated: 05 August 2021]

Academic Year: 2021/2
Owning Department/School: Department of Chemistry
Credits: 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Intermediate (FHEQ level 5)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: EX 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • EXAM (EX 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites: In taking this module you cannot take CH20151 OR take CH20152
Aims: Second half of year long unit: To introduce and expand on advanced physical chemistry methods in kinetics, spectroscopy, surfaces and quantum mechanics.

Learning Outcomes: After studying this Unit, students should be able to:
* Account in kinetic terms for the mechanism of reactions in liquids;
* Describe the effect of light on some chemical reactions and account for the rates of photochemical processes;
* Describe and define the types of adsorption at solid surfaces;
* Explain the qualitative and quantitative basis of catalysis and physical adsorption;
* Define surface tension and solve simple problems involving its application;
* Define and interpret the forces between two colloids.

Skills: Numeracy (F, A), Problem solving (T, F, A), Independent working (F).

Content: Theoretical treatments of reaction kinetics and examples of their application e.g. Reactions in solution. Diffusion and activation control, the "cage" effect.
Experimental methods for studying reactions:
Basic photochemical methods and processes. Applications of photochemistry. Kinetics of photochemical reactions.
Introduction to surfaces. chemisorption versus physisorption.
adsorbed amounts. Types of isotherms: Langmuir Isotherm. determination of heat of adsorption,BET isotherm: Introduction to heterogeneous catalysis. Kinetics of catalysis. Langmuir Hinshelwood mechanism. Eley Rideal mechanism. Catalysis examples Molecular basis and consequences of surface tension. Colloid stability. Micellisation. Gibbs equation.

Programme availability:

CH20179 is only available to visiting/exchange students


Notes:

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