610-033 Chemistry 3 (Chemical Engineering)

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

610-024 or 610-211.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

Upon completion of 610-033 Chemistry 3 students should:

• understand the principles of statistical mechanics, their relationship to classical thermodynamics and appreciate their application in describing chemical systems;
• understand the concepts of equilibrium electrochemistry and the principles controlling the rates of electrode processes;
• be able to quantitatively describe the role of surfaces in a variety of important chemical phenomena and to use models to describe micelle formation from surfactants;
• understand the range of techniques for the production of atomic and free radical species and the kinetic aspects of abstraction, addition and branched chain reactions;
• be able to quantitatively characterise excited state properties and understand their significance in processes such as photosynthesis and photodegradation of materials;
• understand the solution properties of macromolecules.

This subject covers the topics: statistical thermodynamics, electrochemistry, surface chemistry, unstable species, photophysics, macromolecules.

Assessment

One three-hour examination and one two-hour written examination at the end of Semester one: assignments not exceeding 12 pages.