The lecture handouts are available in the table below. Please note that there were no lecture notes for session #36.
| SES # | TOPICS | LECTURE NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | State of a system, 0th law, equation of state | (PDF) |
| 2 | Work, heat, first law | (PDF) |
| 3 | Internal energy, expansion work | (PDF) |
| 4 | Enthalpy | (PDF) |
| 5 | Adiabatic changes | (PDF) |
| 6 | Thermochemistry | (PDF) |
| 7 | Calorimetry | (PDF) |
| 8 | Second law | (PDF) |
| 9 | Entropy and the Clausius inequality | (PDF) |
| 10 | Entropy and irreversibility | (PDF) |
| 11 | Fundamental equation, absolute S, third law | (PDF) |
| 12 | Criteria for spontaneous change | (PDF) |
| 13 | Gibbs free energy | (PDF) |
| 14 | Multicomponent systems, chemical potential | (PDF) |
| 15 | Chemical equilibrium | (PDF) |
| 16 | Temperature, pressure and Kp | (PDF) |
| 17 | Equilibrium: application to drug design | (PDF) |
| 18 | Phase equilibria — one component | (PDF) |
| 19 | Clausius-Clapeyron equation | (PDF) |
| 20 | Phase equilibria — two components | (PDF) |
| 21 | Ideal solutions | (PDF) |
| 22 | Non-ideal solutions | (PDF) |
| 23 | Colligative properties | (PDF) |
| 24 | Introduction to statistical mechanics | (PDF) |
| 25 | Partition function (q) — large N limit | (PDF) |
| 26 | Partition function (Q) — many particles | (PDF) |
| 27 | Statistical mechanics and discrete energy levels | |
| 28 | Model systems | (PDF) |
| 29 | Applications: chemical and phase equilibria | (PDF) |
| 30 | Introduction to reaction kinetics | (PDF) |
| 31 | Complex reactions and mechanisms | (PDF) |
| 32 | Steady-state and equilibrium approximations | (PDF) |
| 33 | Chain reactions | (PDF) |
| 34 | Temperature dependence, Ea, catalysis | (PDF) |
| 35 | Enzyme catalysis | (PDF) |
| 36 | Autocatalysis and oscillators |
