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INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY: SOLIDS, LIQUIDS AND
GASES
P. J. Hore
Michaelmas Term, First Year
1st week. Monday 11.00, Tuesday 10.00, Thursday 10.00. PTCL
The purpose of these three lectures is to introduce the subject
of Physical Chemistry and the first-year Physical Chemistry
lecture course and to cover some basic material needed for
subsequent lecture courses, in particular "An Introduction
to Chemical Thermodynamics" which follows in 2nd
week.
Lectures 1 & 2
What is Physical Chemistry?
What Physical Chemists do: illustrated by examples
drawn from some or all of the following research areas, which
include experimental and theoretical studies of solid, liquid
and gas phase molecules.
Laser chemistry. Femtochemistry. Reaction dynamics. Photosynthesis.
Crystallography. Scanning probe microscopy. Single molecule
detection and spectroscopy. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Computational
chemistry. Molecular dynamics simulations.
The structure of the first-year Physical Chemistry lecture
course.
Lecture 3
Properties of gases. Perfect gas. Pressure and temperature.
Gas laws. Real gases. Compression factor. Virial equation
of state. Condensation. Van der Waals equation. Principle
of corresponding states.
Bibliography for Lecture 3:
P. W. Atkins & J. de Paula. Atkins’ Physical Chemistry,
7th edition, Oxford University Press, 2001.
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