CHEM2301 - PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY (4 credits)

Pre-requisites: CHEM1901 and CHEM1902

Syllabus:

• Kinetic factors influencing the rates of chemical change in complex reacting systems.
• Theories of reaction rates.
• Methods of determining the rates of fast reactions.
• Quantum Mechanics - Existence and occupation of discrete energy levels; properties of orbitals in atoms and molecules.
• Polymers, Colloids and Surfaces - Kinetic models for chain and stepwise polymerisation.
• Methods of determining the relative molar mass (RMM) of polymers.
• The relationship between RMM and properties of polymers.
• Adsorption of gases of solid surfaces.
• Determination of surface areas of absorbents.