Overview

Dive into a comprehensive 13-hour lecture series on physical chemistry, covering thermodynamics, statics, and kinetics. Explore fundamental concepts such as gas laws, internal energy, enthalpy, heat engines, entropy, free energies, phase diagrams, chemical potential, equilibrium, and reaction kinetics. Learn about the ideal gas law, Dalton's law, the First Law of Thermodynamics, Hess' Law, Carnot cycles, partition functions, Gibbs free energy, Raoult's law, colligative properties, Le Chatelier's principle, and the Arrhenius equation. Examine advanced topics including multi-step reactions, steady-state approximations, and enzyme kinetics. Gain practical problem-solving skills through numerous examples and applications in each lecture.

Syllabus

Lecture 1 (1 of 2) - Course Introduction.
Lecture 1 (2 of 2) - Concentrations.
Lecture 2 (1 of 6) - Properties of Gases Introduction.
Lecture 2 (2 of 6) - The Ideal Gas Law.
Lecture 2 (3 of 6) - Ideal Gases (cont.).
Lecture 2 (4 of 6) - Dalton's Law.
Lecture 2 (5 of 6) - Real Gases.
Lecture 2 (6 of 6) - Gas Law Examples.
Lecture 3 (1 of 4) - Internal Energy.
Lecture 3 (2 of 4) - Expansion Work.
Lecture 3 (3 of 4) - Heat.
Lecture 3 (4 of 4) - First Law of Thermodynamics Examples.
Lecture 4 (1 of 6) - Enthalpy Introduction.
Lecture 4 (2 of 6) - Difference Between H and U.
Lecture 4 (3 of 6) - Heat Capacity at Constant Pressure.
Lecture 4 (4 of 6) - Hess' Law.
Lecture 4 (5 of 6) - Hess' Law Applications.
Lecture 4 (6 of 6) - Kirchhoff's Law.
Lecture 5 (1 of 5) - Adiabatic Behaviour.
Lecture 5 (2 of 5) - Adiabatic Expansion Work.
Lecture 5 (3 of 5) - Heat Engines.
Lecture 5 (4 of 5) - Total Carnot Work.
Lecture 5 (5 of 5) - Heat Engine Efficiency.
Lecture 6 (1 of 4) - Microstates and Macrostates.
Lecture 6 (2 of 4) - Partition Functions.
Lecture 6 (3 of 4) - Partition Functions Examples.
Lecture 6 (4 of 4) - Calculating U from Partition Functions.
Lecture 7 (1 of 4) - Entropy.
Lecture 7 (2 of 4) - Change in Entropy Examples.
Lecture 7 (3 of 4) - Residual Entropies and the Third Law.
Lecture 7 (4 of 4) - Absolute Entropies and Spontaneity.
Lecture 8 (1 of 7) - Free Energies.
Lecture 8 (2 of 7) - The Gibbs Free Energy.
Lecture 8 (3 of 7) - Phase Diagrams.
Lecture 8 (4 of 7) - Building Phase Diagrams.
Lecture 8 (5 of 7) - The Clapeyron Equation.
Lecture 8 (6 of 7) - The Clapeyron Equation Example.
Lecture 8 (7 of 7) - The Clausius Clapeyron Equation.
Lecture 9 (1 of 5) - Chemical Potential.
Lecture 9 (2 of 5) - The Mixing of Gases.
Lecture 9 (3 of 5) - Raoult's Law.
Lecture 9 (4 of 5) - Real Solutions.
Lecture 9 (5 of 5) - Dilute Solutions.
Lecture 10 (1 of 4) - Colligative Properties.
Lecture 10 (2 of 4) - Fractional Distillation.
Lecture 10 (3 of 4) - Freezing Point Depression.
Lecture 10 (4 of 4) - Osmosis.
Lecture 11 (1 of 5) - Chemical Potential and Equilibrium.
Lecture 11 (2 of 5) - The Equilibrium Constant.
Lecture 11 (3 of 5) - Equilibrium Concentrations.
Lecture 11 (4 of 5) - Le Chatelier and Temperature.
Lecture 11 (5 of 5) - Le Chaterler and Pressure.
Lecture 12 (1 of 5) - Ions in Solution.
Lecture 12 (2 of 5) - Debye-Hückel Law.
Lecture 12 (3 of 5) - Salting In and Salting Out.
Lecture 12 (4 of 5) - Salting In Example.
Lecture 12 (5 of 5) - Salting Out Example.
Lecture 13 (1 of 4) - Acid Equilibrium Review.
Lecture 13 (2 of 4) - Real Acid Equilibrium.
Lecture 13 (3 of 4) - The pH of Real Acid Solutions.
Lecture 13 (4 of 4) - Buffers.
Lecture 15 (1 of 5) - Rate Law Expressions.
Lecture 15 (2 of 5) - 2nd Order Type 2 Integrated Rate Law.
Lecture 15 (3 of 5) - 2nd Order Integrated Rate Law (cont.).
Lecture 15 (4 of 5) - Strategies To Determine Order.
Lecture 15 (5 of 5) - Half Life.
Lecture 16 (1 of 2) - The Arrhenius Equation.
Lecture 16 (2 of 2) - The Arrhenius Equation Examples.
Lecture 17 (1 of 6) - The Approach to Equilibrium.
Lecture 17 (2 of 6) - The Approach to Equilibrium (cont.).
Lecture 17 (3 of 6) - Link Between K and Rate Constants.
Lecture 17 (4 of 6) - Equilibrium Shift Setup.
Lecture 17 (5 of 6) - Time Constant, Tau.
Lecture 17 (6 of 6) - Quantifying Tau and Concentrations.
Lecture 18 (1 of 8) - Consecutive Chemical Reactions.
Lecture 18 (2 of 8) - Multi-Step Integrated Rate Laws.
Lecture 18 (3 of 8) - Multi-Step Int Rate Laws (cont.).
Lecture 18 (4 of 8) - Intermediate Max and Rate Det Step.
Lecture 18 (5 of 8) - Preequilibrium Approximation.
Lecture 18 (6 of 8) - Preequilibrium Approximation (cont.).
Lecture 18 (7 of 8) - Steady State Approximation.
Lecture 18 (8 of 8) - Steady State Approximation (cont.).
Lecture 19 (1 of 2) - Rate Law Expressions with Catalysts.
Lecture 19 (2 of 2) - Michaelis-Menten Enzyme Rate Law.