- Docente: Sonia Melandri
- Credits: 6
- SSD: CHIM/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Molecular and cellular biology (cod. 8021)
Course contents
1. Real and ideal gases. Kinetic model of ideal gases: molecular
velocities, effusion and diffusion.
2.The equipartition of energy. Boltzmann distribution law and the
molecular interpretation of temperature. Statistical fundaments of
kinetics and thermodynamics and the relation between microscopic
and bulk properties.
3. The principles of thermodynamics and the derived state
functions: applications to chemical and phase
equilibria. Effects of temperature and pressure on
equilibria.
4. Systems with more than one phase or components. Partial molar
quantities. Chemical potential. Ideal and real solutions.
Colligative properties.
5. Electrolite solutions. Ionic activity and the Debye-Huckel
theory. Colligative properties of electrolite solution. Biological
membranes.
6. Thermodynemics of electrochemical systems. Biological
oxidation.
7. Chemical kinetics: reaction rate, order and molecularity. Reaction rates theories and temperature dependance. Complex reactions and reactions in solution. Enzymatic catalysis.
8. Spectrophotometry and spectrofluorimetry
Readings/Bibliography
R. Chang, Chimica Fisica 1,
Zanichelli 2003
P.W. Atkins, Chimica Fisica, Zanichelli 1997
D. Eisemberg, D. Crothers, Physical Chemistry with applications
to the life sciences, Benjamin /Cummings Company 1979
Teaching methods
Lessons, numerical excercises and laboratory practicals
Assessment methods
2 partial written exams during course or a final oral exam
Teaching tools
Overhead projector, videoprojector
Office hours
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