Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2502444 Chemistry | OB | 3 | 1 |
It is advisory to have completed "Fonaments de Química", "Química Quàntica" and "Termodinàmica i Cinètica"
The student keeps progressing on its Physical Chemistry education with the goal of visiting the full extension of issues that make this subject total content, the Physical Chemistry. After the microscopic approximation involved in Quantum Chemistry, the macroscopic approximation to Thermodynamics and Kinetics (with minor microscopic hints), this subject will be dealing – as its title indicates- with Transport Phenomena and Surface Phenomena. Thus, gases kinetic theory, the different types of solution transport (diffusion, migration and convection), the existence and definition of interphases, and their application to kinetics (heterogeneous catalysis) and electrochemistry (double layers), will be studied. Electrochemistry, that can also be visualized as a surface phenomenon, will be treated from a thermodynamic and kinetic point of view. The course will end up with the study of some macromolecules: colloids and polymers, hence closing with all these contents the full view of the Physical Chemistry field.
1. Introduction to transport phenomena.
Gases kinetic theory. Flux. Effusion. Thermal Conductivity. Viscosity.
2. Solution transport (I).
Solution structure: Ion-solvent interaction. Solvation. Ion-Ion interaction. Debye-Hückel model. Activity coefficient.
Solution transport:diffusion, migration and convection. Fick's laws. Diffusion microscopic issues.
3. Solution transport (II).
Conductivity and molar conductivity. Ionic mobility. Transport index. Onsager's equation. Diffusion and conductivity.
4. Surface phenomena. The interphase.
Surface tension. Surface thermodynamics. Surface excess. Electrified interphase: double layer models.
5. Surface phenomena. Heterogeneous catalysis.
Homogeneous catalysis. Surface adsorption: physisorption and chemisorption. Adsorption isotherms. General mechanisms on heterogeneous catalysis. Features of solid catalysts.
6. Electrochemical equilibrium.
Electrochemical potential. Nernst equation. Galvanic cells types. Transports batteries. Diffusion potential.
7. Electrochemical kinetics.
Basic concepts. Charge transfer kinetics at the electrodes: Butler-Volmer equation. Mass transport effect.
8. Macromolecules.
Colloids: types and stability. Polymers: general concepts, characterization and synthesis.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Problems | 12 | 0.48 | 2, 10, 13, 21, 22, 25, 26, 31 |
Theory Lectures | 37 | 1.48 | 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 23 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Study. Problem solving. Readings and Information Obtaining | 87 | 3.48 | 1, 14, 5, 27, 28, 15, 16, 3, 29, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 9, 30 |
In this half face-to-face year :
Classroom written exams (50% of the final mark). Accordingly to the academic calendar 2 exams will be carried out. A mark equal or above to 3,5 (out of 10) is required in order to be able to add it to the remaining 50% of the marks (classroom exercises). If the mark is below 3,5, the student will have to take the second-chance exam, that will include the whole course, in order to pass the subject.
Classroom exercises fulfillment (50% of the marks). The culmination of these exercises (problem solution, test,..) is mandatory and is not subjected second-chance attempts.
In order to participate in the second-chance exam the students have to sit for the two previous written exams and for 75% of the classroom exercises.
In case the Covid 19 situation forces the classroom written exams to change to on-line exams, the marks percentage distribution would change: 30 % for the on-line written exams, and 70% for the “classroom” exercises (either face-to-face or on-line).
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Evidences | 50% | 6 | 0.24 | 1, 2, 14, 5, 27, 28, 15, 16, 11, 10, 12, 13, 3, 29, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 24, 9, 30, 31 |
Final Exam | 50% | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 27, 28, 8, 15, 16, 11, 10, 12, 13, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 24, 9, 31 |
Partial Exam 1 | 25% | 3 | 0.12 | 2, 14, 5, 7, 27, 15, 11, 10, 12, 29, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26, 24, 9, 31 |
Partial Exam 2 | 25% | 3 | 0.12 | 4, 5, 6, 27, 28, 8, 15, 16, 10, 13, 3, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26, 24, 9, 31 |
ATKINS,P.W.; DE PAULA, J. Atkins’ Physical Chemistry. 9ª ed. Oxford University Press, 2009. (Traducció espanyola de la 8ª ed., Ed. Pananmericana, 2008)
BERTRÁN, J.; NÚÑEZ, J. (coords.) Química Física , Ariel, 2002.
LEVINE, I.N. Physical Chemistry. 5ª ed. Mc Graw Hill, 2002. (Traducció espanyola, McGraw-Hill, 2004)
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