59-240 Introductory Physical Chemistry: Course Notes

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Course Notes
Course notes for 59-240 are available below. Tentative lecture dates will be updated as the term progresses. Please let me know if you find any mistakes in the notes so that I can fix them for the other students! Email me at rschurko@uwindsor.ca

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Problems & Reading
Suggested problems are given below - in order to keep up with class material and prepare for examinations you must do these problems as the lecture material progresses. Equivalent sets of problems are listed for both the 6th and 7th edition of Atkins. Reading assignments are listed as: Chapter 6 (Chapter 7). Please do list (a) problems which are solved in the Solutions Manual, and attempt the list (b) problems.

Answer key for the B problem list (6th edition) updated December 8, 2002 ***note: Chapter 8 answers are included here!
Answer key for the B problem list (7th edition), updated November 15, 2005 (updates marked with ***)
Check out these clarification of Atkins problems, updated December 12, 2005

Fall 2004 59-240 Physical Chemistry - Updated Friday June 22, 2007
Highlighted dates indicate that the notes have been updated from older versions.

#	Date(s)	Title	Reading	Exercises (6th Ed)	Exercises (7th Ed)
0	Sept. 9	Lecture 0 - Introduction to Physical Chemistry	Chapter 0	None	None
*Chapter 1: Properties of Gases (and a little bit on kinetic theory of gases in Ch. 24, Edition 7)*
1	Sept. 12	Lecture 1 - States of Gases ***09/12/05: added slide 10	1.1 (1.1)	1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7	1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.9, 1.10
2	Sept. 14	Lecture 2 - Gas Laws ***09/14/05: added slide 3, fixed slide 8	1.1-1.2 (1.2)	1.8, 1.10, 1.11, 1.26 & Problem 1.1, 1.7	1.11, 1.13, 1.14, 1.22 & Problems 1.1, 1.30
3	Sept. 16, 19	Lecture 3 - Kinetic Model of Gases **09/18/05: slight modif. to slide 12 Aside*: Cold Atoms	1.3 (24.1)	1.13, 1.14, 1.19, Self-Test 1.6 (p. 28) Problem 1.22	24.4, 24.5, 24.10, Self-Test 24.1 (p. 820), Problem 24.23
3	Sept. 16, 19		1.3 (24.1)	1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18	24.6, 24.7, 24.8, 24.9
4	Sept. 19, 21	Lecture 4 - Real Gases ***09/18/05: slight modif. to slide 11, overhauled slide 13	1.4-1.6 (1.3-1.5)	1.20, 1.22, 1.23, 1.25, 1.27, 1.29, Problems 1.29 & 1.32	1.16, 1.18, 1.19, 1.21, 1.23, 1.25, Problems 1.20 & 1.23
*Chapter 2: The First Law: Concepts*
5	Sept. 21, 23	Lecture 5 - Introduction to Thermodynamics	2.1-2.2
6	Sept. 23, 26	Lecture 6 - Work, Heat and Energy ***09/25/05: minor adjustment to slide 9	2.3-2.4	2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.9	2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.12
7	Sept. 28, 30	Lecture 7 - Enthalpy and Adiabatic Expansion ***09/30/05: minor adjustment to slide 7 See also: self-guided tutorial, posted Oct. 16	2.5-2.6	Set 1: 2.4, 2.11, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15, 2.17 Set 2: 2.18, 2.20, 2.21, 2.22, 2.24, 2.25	Set 1: 2.7, 2.14, 2.16, 2.17, 2.18, 2.20 Set 2: 2.21, 2.23, 2.24, 2.25, 2.27, 2.28
8	Sept.30, Oct. 3	Lecture 8 - Thermochemistry	2.7-2.9	2.26, 2.27, 2.28, 2.32, 2.34, 2.35, 2.39, 2.40, 2.44, 2.45	2.29, 2.30, 2.31, 2.35, 2.36, 2.37, 2.39, 2.40, 2.44, 2.45
--	Oct. 3	Transition Lecture: Qualitative Calculations of q, w, DU and DH	in class	3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6	3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9
*Chapter 3: The First Law: Machinery (14 problems)*
9	Oct. 5, 7, 12	Lecture 9 - The Machinery of the First Law	Chapter 3	3.7, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 3.15	3.10, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17, 3.18
Monday, Oct. 17: Mid-Term #1 - All material up to this point
Oct. 16/05: Self-guided tutorial & answer key - summarizing Chapters 1-3
*Chapter 4: The Second Law: Concepts*
10	Oct. 24, 26	Lecture 10 - Introduction to the Second Law, Entropy ***10/27/05: added slide with Clausius biography	4.1-4.3	4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4	4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7
10	Oct. 24, 26		4.1-4.3	4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10	4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13
11	Oct. 26	Lecture 11 - Entropy Accompanying Specific Processes ***10/28/05: minor corrections slides 10, 14	4.3	4.11, 4.12, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17, 4.21, 4.22, 4.23	4.14, 4.15, 4.18, 4.19, 4.20, 4.24, 4.25, 4.26
12	Oct. 28, 31	Lecture 12 - Third Law and Gibbs and Helmholz Energies ***11/01/05: new slide 10	4.4-4.7 (4.4-4.6)	4,13, 4.14, 4.18, 4.19, 4.20, Problem 4.5	4.16, 4.17, 4.21, 4.22, 4.23, Problem 4.5
*Chapter 5: The Second Law: Machinery*
13	Nov. 2, 4	Lecture 13 - The Second Law - Machinery *11/07/05: minor correction, slide 11 *Addition: clarification for Ex. 5.4 (6th) & 5.7 (7th)	5.1-5.6 (5.1-5.5)	5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9, 5.10	5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 5.12, 5.13
13	Nov. 2, 4		5.1-5.6 (5.1-5.5)	5.11, 5.12, Problems 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9	5.14, 5.15, Problems 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9
*Chapter 6: Physical Transformations of Pure Substances*
14	Nov. 7, 9	Lecture 14 - Phase diagrams *11/07/05: minor correction slide 1, new slides 13, 14 *Addition: vapour pressure proof	6.1-6.6	6.1, 6.2, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7a, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.11	6.4, 6.5, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10a, 6.2, 6.11, 6.12, 6.13
15	Nov. 11, 18	Lecture 15 - Phase Transitions and Surfaces ***11/12/05: slide 3 updated; new slides 10, 15	6.7-6.10	6.12, 6.13, 6.14 Problems 6.1, 6.2, 6.18	6.14, 6.15, 6.16, Problems 6.1, 6.2, 6.21
*Wed., Nov. 16 Mid-Term #2 -* Up to slide 10 of Lecture 15**
*Chapter 7: Simple Mixtures - Sections 7.1 - 7.5*
16	Nov. 21, 23	Lecture 16 - Simple Mixtures	7.1-7.3	7.1, 7.2, 7.3, Self-Test 7.2 (p. 169 Atkins 6th), 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7	7.4, 7.5, 7.6, Self-Test 7.2, (p. 166 Atkins 7th), 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10
17	Nov. 23, 25	Lecture 17 - Properties of Solutions *Nov. 22/05: Corrections, changes slides 6, 7, 10, (11, 12 modified/new) *Dec. 8/05: final equation on slide 11, modified typo	7.4-7.7 (7.4-7.7)	7.8, 7.9, 7.10, 7.11, 7.12, 7.13, 7.14, 7.15, 7.16	7.11, 7.12, 7.13, 7.14, 7.15, 7.16, 7.17, 7.18, 7.19
**Chapter 8: Phase Diagrams**
18	Nov. 28, 30	Lecture 18 - The Phase Rule ***Dec. 5/05: Corrections, updated slides 4, 6, 12, 16	8.1-8.3	8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.7, 8.9, 8.10, 8.11	8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.10, 8.2, 8.3, 8.12
		Proof of equation on slide 13 (eq. 8-6, 6th and 7th editions)	Material to accompany lecture 18
19	Dec. 2, 5, 7	Lecture 19 - Phase Diagrams ***Dec. 9/05: Slide 7, H and N labels swapped; new slides at end.	8.4-8.6	8.12, 8.13, 8.14, 8.15, 8.16, 8.17, 8.19	8.13, 8.14, 8.15, 8.16, 8.17, 8.18, 8.20
	Dec. 7	Sample phase diagrams and micrographs: Cu/Al alloys	Material to accompany lecture 19 Please review this material, and compare with the "interactive phase diagram" from Southhampton.
Wed., Dec. 14, 12:00 p.m. Final Examination, comprehensive, Chapters 1 - 8

Please study: all problems assigned/covered in class, tutorials and laboratories.

Credits: These notes were developed from P.W. Atkins "Physical Chemistry" 6th edition by R.W. Schurko at the University of Windsor. Some helpful discussion on the Second Law is from the notes of Neal Woodbury in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of Arizona. You are welcome to download copies of these notes for personal use.

If these notes or portions of these notes are posted on a public website, or are to be used for commercial purposes, permission must be obtained from Rob Schurko and the University of Windsor.