Physical Chemistry 3

• Define transport coefficients to be used in the description of non-equilibrium phenomena in thermodynamic systems and apply them in calculations.
• Explain the kinetic model of ideal gasses.
• Apply the kinetic model to calculate transport coefficients for ideal gasses.
• Apply chemical kinetics to perform calculations of the rate of simple and complex chemical reactions.
• Explain the quantum mechanical background for the existence of spectra with well defined spectral lines.
• Describe the interaction between electromagnetic fields and molecules.
• Determine the structure and properties of molecules from spectroscopy.
• Explain the background for MW, IR, UV, and NMR spectroscopy.

Mass and charge transport, diffusion and electrolytic conductivity. The kinetic model of gases. Topics in reaction kinetics, including adsorption and heterogeneous catalysis. Introduction to the atomic-level description of chemical reactions. Interaction between electromagnetic radiation and molecules, quantization of molecular energy, the Schrödinger equation, spectroscopy with microwave (MW), infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) radiation, Raman spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic (NMR)- and electron spin (ESR) resonans spectroscopy.

01005/26222/01920/28012/28322/01001/01003/01001/01004, Physical chemistry and mandatory mathematics.

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