00122 - Physical Chemistry

Academic Year 2006/2007

  • Credits: 5
  • SSD: CHIM/02
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: (Modulo 0) (Modulo 1)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 0) Traditional lectures (Modulo 1)
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Chemistry of Materials and Ceramic Technologies (cod. 0492)

Learning outcomes

The course provides the physical principles of chemistry and aims to justify the structure of matter and its transmormations by means of fundamental concepts like atom. electron, energy. The students are adressed with basic tools for the understanding of modern experimental and theoretical methods for structure determination and for the theoretical understanding of physical transformations and chemical reactions.

Course contents

The states of matter and properties of gases.

Termodynamics: first principle.

Termodynamics: second principle.

Chemical equilibria.

Phase equilibria.

Chemical kinetics.

Atomic structure.

Chemical bond.

Molecular spectroscopy.

Readings/Bibliography

P.W. Atkins and J. de Paula, Elements of Physical Chemistry (Fourth Edition), Oxford University Press, 2005

Teaching methods

Lectures in classroom

Assessment methods

Written and oral examination

Teaching tools

Digital projector, pc, web, overhead projector