Course code:
1029B		 Course name:
Physical Chemistry

Academic year:

2012/2013.

Attendance requirements:

1001A / 1101A

ECTS:

8

Study level:

basic academic studies

Study program:

Biochemistry: 2. year, winter semester, compulsory course

Teacher:

Dragomir R. Stanisavljev, Ph.D.
full professor, Faculty for Physical Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Assistants:

Milica C. Steviæ, Ph.D.

Nemanja M. Gavrilov
associate professor, Faculty for Physical Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Hours of instruction:

Weekly: four hours of lectures + three hours of labwork (4+0+3)

Goals:

The course Physical chemistry for biochemists should give students necessary general knowledge in the field, qualifying them to follow subsequent courses during the educational process. It acknowledges students with the derivation of basic physicochemical concepts and the determination of important variables.

Outcome:

Students will learn to thermodynamically describe and analyze systems in chemical equilibrium. They will be acknowledged with the basic irreversible processes of viscose flow, diffusion, sedimentation and electrophoresis. Students should be able to understand the atomic structure of matter and analyze time changes of chemical processes.

Teaching methods:

Lectures, laboratory exercises.

Extracurricular activities:

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Coursebooks:

Main coursebooks:

  1. Izabrana poglavlja fizičke hemije, Slobodan Anić, Dragomir Stanisavljev, Nikola Vukelić, Beograd 2007.
  2. Physical Chemistry, R. A. Alberty
  3. Physical Chemistry, P. Atkins
  4. Praktikum iz Opsteg kursa fizičke hemije
    Miroslav Ristić, Igor Pasti, Isidora Cekić-Lasković, Univerzitet u Beogradu, Fakultet za fizičku hemiju, Beograd, 2010.
  5. Zbirka zadataka iz fizičke hemije, U. Mioč, Beograd, 1988.

Supplementary coursebooks:

Lecture notes

Additional material:

http://helix.chem.bg.ac.rs/~saska/Fizicka_hemija_BH--1029B/

  Course activities and grading method

Lectures:

5 points (4 hours a week)

Syllabus:

  1. Introductory lecture, The basic physicohemical variables, The first law of thermodynamics, Funcitons of state, Heat capacity.
  2. The reversible and irreversible processes, Thermochemistry.
  3. Second law of thermodynamics, Calculation of entropy changes, Statistical meaning of entropy.
  4. Helmholtz and Gibbs energy, Multicomponent systems, Equilibrium.
  5. Chemical potential in liquid and solid samples, Phase equilibrium, One component systems, Koligative properties, Liquid solutions vapor pressure- composition diagrams.
  6. Boiling point-composition diagrams, Immiscible liquids, Liquid – solid systems, Transport properties.
  7. I Partial exam. Atomistic structure of matter, Schrödinger equation, Wave function.
  8. Particle in the one dimensional box. Quantum mechanical description of rotation and vibration moving. Spectra and structure of hydrogen like atoms, Structure of multi electron atoms.
  9. Spectra of multi electron atoms, Atomic terms, The spectra of Helium, The Structure of molecules. Rotational and vibrational spectra of two atom molecules, Vibrations of polyatomic molecules.
  10. The electron transition in molecules, The Vibrational structure of electronic transitions, Fluorescence, Fosforescence, Predisociation, Electrical properties of molecules, Polarisation, Molar refraction, Optical rotation.
  11. II Partial exam. Characteristics of atomic nucleus, Radioactive decay.
  12. Pasing radioactive rays through matter, Measuring radioactivity, Nuclear reactions, The fission, The application of isotopes.
  13. Chemical kinetics, The low of mass action, Relations between various speeds in chemical kinetics. Temperature dependence of rate constants, Reaction order, Determination of the reaction order and rate constant,
  14. Theory of collisions, Theory of transition state, Theory of rates in solutions, Influence of solvent and ionic strength on rate constants.
  15. Complex chemical reactions, Parallel, reversible and consecutive reactions, Stationary state, Catalysis, The mechanism of specific and general acid base catalysis. III Partial exam.

Labwork:

25 points (3 hours a week)

Written exam:

70 points

Remarks:

Three partial exams during the course:

  1. Thermodynamics and transport phenomena
  2. Atomistic structure of matter
  3. Radiochemistry and chemical kinetics