Physical Chemistry
Understanding our Chemical World
This course is for non-organic chemistry master students
Some Topics
Qualitative discussion of concentration changes
Quantitative concentration changes
Kinetic treatment of complicated reactions
Thermodynamic considerations: activation energy, absolute reaction rates
and catalysis
Introduction to photochemistry
Photochemical and spectroscopic selection rules
Photophysics: emission and loss processes
Adsorption and definitions
Colloids and interfacial science
Colloid stability
Association colloids: micelles