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Course No.
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Course Title
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No. of Units
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Pre-requisites
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Th.
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Pr.
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Credit
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Chem 240
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Physical Chemistry for Non-Chemistry Majors
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3
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3
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4
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Objectives of the course :
The course aims to give non-chemistry students basic principles in physical chemistry .
Course Description
Thermodynamic systems; first, second and third law of thermodynamics; free energy functions and their applications, chemical equilibria, phase equilibria, electrochemical cells, kinetics, theory of gases, chemical kinetics and reaction rates .
Main text books :
§ Physical Chemistry, R. Alberty& R.Silby, 2nd ed., 1992, John
Wiley & Sons.
Subsidiary books :
§ Physical Chemistry, J. de Paula & P. Atkins, 7th ed., 2001, W. H.
Freeman.
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