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This is the web site under construction for the physical chemistry course Chm252. This course is designed to create a theoretical context and to provide practice opportunities for students interested in deepening their understanding of modern statistical physical chemistry and applications. Additional pages are accessible via the navigation bar on top, including reference to a graduate course on statitsical theory .
Note: The information on these pages Is not directly available on other UR web sites.
Topics discussed in class will be selected from the following list:
- Emerging Complexity, Order and Chaos
1. General considerations
2. Map dynamics, complex maps and fractal basins
3. Replication and growth phenomena
4. Cellular automata
5. Self-organization in chemical reactions
- Fundamentals of Classical and Quantum Mechanics
From Newton and Hamilton...
....to Bohr, Schrödinger and Heisenberg
- Elements of Equilibrium Thermodynamics
1. Equilibrium and state functions
2. Kinetic gas theory
3. Equation of state of real gases, phase transitions
4. Energy conservation: The First Law of Thermodynamics
5. Reversible and irreversible processes, Second.Law
6. Third Law
7. Entropy as a state function
8. Free energy, chemical potential, applications
9. Real substances, gases, liquids, solids and their phase changes
- Statistical Mechanics
1. Microstates and macrostates, microscopic interpretation of entropy
2. Phase space, ensemble theory
3. Ideal Fermi and Bose gases, classical limit
4. Partition functions for monatomic and diatomic gases
5. Liquids and solids
- Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and Transport
1. Local equilibrium and entropy production
2. Linear response
3. Random walk and diffusion
4. Heat conduction, convection
5. Boltzmann transport
- Fluctuations, Stability, Critical Phenomena
1. Gibbs stability theory
2. Entropy production
3. Critical phenomena
Disclaimer (Please read before using the presentations on this site)
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