ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemical Physics
Areas: Chemical Physics
Center Faculty of Chemistry
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
At the end of the course the students must have the ability
• To understand the principal aspects of the thermodynamics and their applications to chemistry
• To dominate the concepts, laws and theories related with chemistry
• To design qualitative and quantitative problems using the developed models. To interpretate the expermimental dates obtained in laboratory using theories and models applied in chemistry
1. First law of thermodynamics.
Basic concepts. Zeroth law of thermodynamics. First law of thermodynamics. Heat. Work. Heat capacity. Definition of enthalpy.
2. Second and third laws of thermodynamics.
Spontaneous process. Thermodynamical definition of entropy. Second law. Calculation of entropy variations in typical process. Third law. Zero entropy.
3. Thermodynamic functions.
General conditions of equilibrium and spontaneity. The Gibbs and Helmholtz energies. Standard reaction Gibbs energy. Thermodynamic relations for a system at equilibrium. The variation of the Gibbs energy with pressure and temperature. Chemical potential. Partial molar quantities.
4. Chemical equilibrium.
Introduction. Equilibrium constant and the application to ideal gases. The response of equilibria to the conditions. Heterogeneous equilibrium.
5. Phase equilibrium for one-component systems.
Definitions. The phase rule. Phase diagram and application to one-component systems. Three typical phase diagrams. The stability of phases. Phase transitions.
6. Solutions.
Introductions. Thermodynamics of mixing. Ideal solutions. Ideal-dilute solutions. Excess functions. Colligative properties. Real solutions. Activity. Ionic solutions.
7. Phase equilibrium for two-component systems.
Definitions. Vapour pressure diagram. Temperature-composition diagram. Liquid-liquid phase diagram. Liquid-solid phase diagram.
Laboratory program:
Practice 1. Partial molar volume of a binary mixture.
Practice 2. Solid-liquid phase diagram of a binary system.
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY:
• P.Atkins and J. de Paula, Química Física, 8ª Edición, Oxford U.P. 2008. The ebook is available online through the BUSC catalogue.
• P.Atkins and J. de Paula, Physical Chemistry, 8th Edition, Oxford U.P. 2006.
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY:
• I.N. Levine, Fisicoquímica Volumen 1, 5ª Edición, 2004, MacGraw-Hill Inc./ Interamericana de España, S.A.U, 2004. The ebook is available online through the BUSC catalogue.
• J.A. Rodríguez Renuncio, J.J. Ruiz Sánchez y J.S. Urieta, Termodinámica Química, 2ª Ed. Síntesis, 2000.
• T. Engel y P. Reid, Química Física 8ª Ed. Pearson, Addison-Weley, 2006.
• T. Engel y P. Reid, Thermodynamics, Statistical Thermodynamics & Kinetics, 3ª Ed. Pearson, 2013.
• M. C. Buján Núñez, Problemas de termodinámica para estudiantes de química, Universidade de Santiago, Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, 2018.
• J.A. Rodríguez Renuncio, J.J. Ruiz Sánchez y J.S. Urieta, Problemas resueltos de Termodinámica Química. Síntesis, 2000.
• P.W. Atkins, Students Solutions Manual for Physical Chemistry, 6th Edition, Oxford U.P. 1998.
• M. Del Barrio Casado, E. Bravo Guil, F. J. Lana Pons, D. O López Pérez, J. Salud Puig, J. L. Tamarit Mur, Problemas resueltos de Termodinámica Química Thomson, 2005.
COMPETENCES
GENERAL SKILLS
CG1. To be able to understand the most important concepts, methods and results of the different Chemistry branches and their historical development.
CG3. The ability to apply the theoretical/practical knowledge and the analysis and abstraction capacities to raise problems and look for their solutions, both in academic and professional context.
CG4. To be able to communicate chemical knowledge, procedures, results and ideas, by means of oral presentations and written reports, to a specialized and non-specialized audience.
SKILLS
CT1. The ability to analyse and summarise.
CT4. Problem solving
SPECIFIC SKILLS
General competences:
CE5. Thermodynamic principles and their applications in Chemistry.
CE13. The ability to demonstrate knowledge of essential facts, concepts, principles, and theories relating to chemistry areas.
CE14. To solve qualitative and quantitative problems following previously developed models.
CE20. Interpretation of experimental data from laboratory measurements in terms of their meaning and on theoretical basis.
Large group lectures: Lectures can have different formats (theory, problems and / or general examples, general guidelines on the matter ....) The teacher may have the support of audiovisual and computer facilities. Usually, these classes will follow the contents of a proposed reference manual in the Teaching Guide of the subject. Attendance at these classes is recommended.
Interactive classes: Theoretical / practical classes in which the teacher presents applications of the theory, problems, exercises ... The students must participate actively in these classes. The teacher may have the support of audiovisual and computer facilities. Attendance at these classes is mandatory.
Laboratory classes: These classes take place in laboratory. The students acquire chemical lab skills and consolidate the knowledge gained in the lectures. The student's personal work in this activity is greatly reduced. For these experiments, the student will have a laboratory manual, including general observations about the laboratory work and a script of each of the experiment. The student will have to attend every lab session having carefully read the contents of this manual. Following an explanation by the teacher, the students will perform, individually or in groups of two, experiments and calculations required for the achievement of the objectives of the experiment. The students should collect data, and write down all calculations and derived results, which will be presented to the teacher in a report the same day or the next session.
To have the right to continuous evaluation, students must submit the completed lab reports Attendance at these classes is mandatory. There will have an exam at the end of the lab sessions.
Tutorials in very small group: Tutorials are scheduled by the teacher and coordinated by the Centre. In general, each student will have two hours per semester and subject. Activities as clarification of doubts about the theory or practice, problems, exercises, readings, and the presentation and discussion of individual or small group work may be proposed. Attendance at these classes is mandatory.
Both in the ordinary opportunity and in the second opportunity the assessment system will have two parts:
Summative assessment, (40%) which in turn consists of:
- Laboratory classes: exam (10%). To have at least “apt” in laboratory classes, students must submit completed lab reports and answer correctly in the exam some questions about basic knowledge concerning the experiments.
- Summative assessment exams (30%).
Final exam (60%). The final exam will consist of:
-a part with questions about basic concepts of the subject and some numerical problems (a minimum mark in both the questions and the problems will be required). The weight of this part in the final exam will be 85 %.
-a second part with questions connected to the laboratory experiments (15% of the final exam).
The grade of this part count for a total of 1.5 out of 10. To pass, you will have to score at least 0.5.
The final mark will never be lower than the mark obtained on the final exam or than the weighted mark obtained taking into account summative student assessment (but the student must pass the laboratory classes).
All the above is also applicable to those students who are repeating the course except for the laboratory classes, that will be only compulsory for those who have not passed them (however, all students must do the laboratory test).
Attendance to at least 60 % of seminar and tutorial classes is mandatory to be allowed a summative assessment.
Attendance to all the laboratory sessions and handing in the required assignments is mandatory. Students failing to do so will not pass the subject. Students unable to attend any of the lab sessions (with a good reason) will contact the teacher to reschedule it for another date.
In case fraudulent exercises or exams are detected what is compiled in “Normativa de evaluación del rendimiento académico de los estudiantes y de revisión de calificaciones” will be applied.
Competence Assessment:
Interactive classes: CG1, CG3, CG4, CT1, CT4, CE5, CE13, CE14
Laboratory Practices: CG1, CG3, CG4, CT1, CT4, CE5, CE20
Tutorial classes: CG1, CG3, CG4, CT4, CE5, CE13, CE14
Final exam: CG1, CG3, CT1, CT4, CE5, CE13, CE14
Working hours in the classroom:
- Large group lectures: 23 hours
- Interactive classes: 10 hours
- Laboratory practices: 20 hours
- Tutorials: 2 hours
Total: 55 hours
Personal working hours:
- Individual or group self-study: 46 hours
- Solution of exercises, or other works: 22 hours
- Preparation of oral or written presentations and proposed exercises. Library or similar activities: 10 hours
- Preparation of laboratory work: 17 hours
Total: 95 hours
- Attendance to the lectures is recommended.
- It is important to study every day.
- The solution of problems is fundamental in this subject.
PREREQUISITES
This course requires substantial knowledge of mathematics and physics. It is therefore recommended that the student has passed the subjects of maths and physics of the first year and General Chemistry II.
Jose Ramon Leis Fidalgo
- Department
- Chemical Physics
- Area
- Chemical Physics
- Phone
- 881814222
- joseramon.leis [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Maria Carmen Bujan Nuñez
- Department
- Chemical Physics
- Area
- Chemical Physics
- Phone
- 881814228
- mariadelcarmen.bujan [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Emilio Martinez Nuñez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemical Physics
- Area
- Chemical Physics
- Phone
- 881814223
- emilio.nunez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Omar Rodriguez Lopez
- Department
- Chemical Physics
- Area
- Chemical Physics
- omar.rodriguez.lopez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Predoutoral Marie Curie
Tiago Filipe Mendes Ferreira
- Department
- Chemical Physics
- Area
- Chemical Physics
- tiago.mendes.ferreira [at] usc.es
- Category
- Researcher: Ramón y Cajal
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