CHEM 535 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY II SPRING, 2017 9:30 10:45 AM TR 1001 MALOTT PROFESSOR: Carey K. Johnson, B039 Malott ckjohnson@ku.edu Office Hours: Wednesday 11:00 am 12:00 pm; Thursday 11:00 am 12:00 pm; or by appointment TEACHING ASSISTANTS: Hossein Jooya, jooya@ku.edu Office Hours: Monday 2:00 3:00 pm and Tuesday 11:00 am 12:00 pm or by appointment Tal Aharon, taharon@ku.edu Office Hours: Monday 10:00 11:00 am and Wednesday 2:00 3:00 pm or by appointment COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is the second half of a two-semester sequence in physical chemistry for chemistry and chemical engineering students. Building on the molecular level description of matter presented in CHEM 530 (Physical Chemistry I), CHEM 535 emphasizes the thermodynamics of molecular systems with application to the properties of gases, liquids, solids, materials, statistical thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, and reaction dynamics. COURSE GOAL: LECTURES: CLICKERS: DISCUSSIONS: The purpose of this course is to provide a solid grounding in the principles and methods of thermodynamics and chemical reaction dynamics. Physical chemistry provides a beautiful, rigorous, and often challenging framework through which to deepen your understanding of molecular systems. As a teacher, my goal is for you to learn to appreciate the beauty of the subject and to challenge you to approach scientific problems at a rigorous and fundamental level. You are highly encouraged to ask questions during class. It will help clarify material for you and your fellow students while also helping me to understand what topics need further discussion. Note that while attending the lectures will likely improve your understanding of the material, attendance is not mandatory (although note that there will be no make-up quizzes). Thus, talking with friends, reading the newspaper, completing homework, listening to electronic devices, texting, and other disruptive activities should be carried on outside of class. We will use clickers for class participation. Your clicker score will be based solely on participation, not on correct responses. Tuesday 1:00 1:50 pm, 1003 Malott Tuesday 2:00 2:50 pm, 1003 Malott Tuesday 3:00 3:50 pm, 1003 Malott You must be enrolled in one of the above discussion sections. Attendance at your discussion session is required. These discussion sections are informal periods during which we will discuss problem sets, have group problem solving sessions, discuss questions from the lecture, and explore applications of the material. 1
COURSE WEBSITE: TEXTBOOK: PREREQUISITES: EXAMS: You may be asked to hand in worksheets or homework problems (either worked in-class or taken from the homework assignment). These assignments will only be accepted during Discussions. Assignments, solutions, and other course documents will be posted on Blackboard. Physical Chemistry. A Molecular Approach by Donald McQuarrie and John Simon CHEM 530, PHSX 212, MATH 127, MATH 220 or 320, completion or concurrent enrollment in MATH 290, or consent of instructor. Evening exams: Wednesday Feb 15, Wednesday March 15, and Wednesday April 19, 5:50 7:50 pm. No make-up exams will be given. Please notify me at least one week in advance if you know that you must miss the exam for a legitimate reason, so that arrangements for an early exam can be made. If you must miss the exam for an unplanned, legitimate emergency, the exam grade for that exam will be replaced by the average of your other midterm exams. No changes in exam or quiz scores will be considered more than one week after they are returned. Final exam: 7:30 (!!) 10:00 am, Thursday, May 11 You will only be permitted to use an acceptable non-programmable calculator on exams and quizzes, for example Texas Instruments 30XA or Casio FX260. HOMEWORK AND PROBLEM SETS: Working problems regularly is the best way to understand physical chemistry. Both on-line and written homework will be assigned. A subscription to the WebAssign interactive online homework system is required. Written problem sets will also be assigned regularly, generally to be completed by class on Thursday. These problem sets may be collected during Discussion. Material related to the problem sets will be included in the quizzes and exams. Problems will also be discussed at the weekly discussion sessions. QUIZZES: Quizzes will be given on Thursdays. Exceptions will be announced in advance. These 10-15 minute quizzes will include material covered in the lectures, discussions, reading, homework, and problem sets. There will be no make-up quizzes. The lowest quiz score will be dropped. GRADING: Mid-term exams (100 points each) 300 pts Clicker responses 50 pts Homework online 50 pts Discussion worksheets approx. 50 pts Quizzes approx. 100 pts Final Exam 150 pts Total approx. 700 pts 2
DISCLAIMER: The final grades will be based on the class average and standard deviations. The +/ grading scale will be used. Thresholds for final grades may be lower than the standard (93-100 = A, 90-92 = A, 87 89 = B +, 83 86 = B, 80 82 = B, 77 79 = C, 73-76 = C, 70-72 = C, 67-69 = D +, 63-67 = D, 60-62 = D, <60= F) but will not be higher. If it becomes necessary to modify any information in this syllabus, you will be notified in class and on Blackboard. ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT: Students should review the university policy on Academic conduct at: http://policy.ku.edu/governance/usrr#art2sect6. University Senate Rules and Regulations defines academic misconduct as follows: Academic misconduct by a student shall include, but not be limited to, disruption of classes; threatening an instructor or fellow student in an academic setting; giving or receiving of unauthorized aid on examinations or in the preparation of notebooks, themes, reports or other assignments; knowingly misrepresenting the source of any academic work; unauthorized changing of grades; unauthorized use of University approvals or forging of signatures; falsification of research results; plagiarizing of another's work; violation of regulations or ethical codes for the treatment of human and animal subjects; or otherwise acting dishonestly in research. Any incident of academic misconduct in this course will result in a zero for the assignment in question and will be prosecuted according to the procedures outlined in the KU Student Handbook (http://www.studenthandbook.ku.edu). COURSE MATERIALS AND NOTE TAKING: Course materials prepared by the instructor, together with the content of all lectures and discussion sessions presented by the instructor are the property of the instructor. Video and audio recording of lectures and discussion sessions without the consent of the instructor is prohibited. Pursuant to the University of Kansas Policy on Commercial Note-Taking Ventures, commercial note-taking is not permitted in CHEM 535. Lecture notes and course materials may be taken for personal use for the purpose of mastering the course material, and may not be sold to any person or entity in any form. Any student engaged in or contributing to the commercial exchange of notes or course materials will be subject to discipline, including academic misconduct charges, in accordance with University policy. DISABILITIES: The Academic Achievement and Access Center (AAAC) coordinates academic accommodations and services for all eligible KU students with disabilities. If you have a disability for which you wish to request accommodations and have not contacted the AAAC, please do so as soon as possible. They are located in 22 Strong Hall and can be reached at 785-864- 4064 (V/TTY). Information about their services can be found at http://www.access.ku.edu. Please contact me privately in regard to your needs in this course. 3
RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES: Should the examination schedule for this course conflict with your mandated religious observance, please contact me at the beginning of the semester so that we can schedule a make-up exam at a mutually acceptable time. In addition, students will not be penalized for absence from regularly scheduled class activities which conflict with mandated religious observances. Students are responsible for initiating discussion with the instructor to reach a mutually acceptable solution. Link to policy on test taking, student responsibility and religious observance: http://policy.ku.edu/governance/usrr#art1sect4 Link to policy on attendance evaluation and mandated religious observance: http://policy.ku.edu/governance/usrr#art2sect1 RECOMMENDED REFERENCES: It is often helpful to refer to other texts to improve your understanding of material. The library has many physical chemistry undergraduate textbooks. Here are some recommended references. Texts marked * will be placed on reserve. Peter Atkins, Julio de Paula, and Ronald Friedman, Quanta, Matter, and Change. A previous text for this course. *Henry A. Bent, The Second Law. Excellent, intuitive treatment of the second law from both a classical and statistical viewpoint R. Stephen Berry, Stuart Rice, and John Ross, Physical Chemistry. Encyclopedic: probably the world record for pages in an undergraduate phys. chem. text. David Chandler, Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics. Intro graduate level text. *Kenneth Denbigh, The Principles of Chemical Equilibrium. Standard text Ken Dill, Molecular Driving Forces: Statistical Thermodynamics in Chemistry and Biology *Richard Dickerson, Molecular Thermodynamics. An excellent undergraduate introductory thermo text with good section on statistical thermodynamics Paul Houston, Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Dynamics Walter Kauzmann, Kinetic Theory of Gases and Thermodynamics and Statistics. *Donald McQuarrie, Mathematics for Physical Chemistry: Opening Doors Donald McQuarrie, Statistical Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. Introductory graduate textbooks. Robert Mortimer, Mathematics for Physical Chemistry Peter Rock, Classical Thermodynamics. Standard thermodynamics text. 4
Approximate Schedule Approx. Dates Topic Text chapter Jan. 17 24 Introduction to statistical thermodynamics: ensembles and partition functions 17 & 18 Jan 26 Feb 2 The first law 19 Feb 7 14 Entropy; second and third laws 20 & 21 Feb 15 Exam 1 Feb. 21 28 Free energy, physical equilibria 16, 22, 23 Mar 1 14 Solutions 24 & 25 Mar 15 Exam 2 Mar 20 25 Spring Break Mar 28 30 Chemical equilibria 26 Apr 4 6 Kinetic theory of gases 27 Apr 11 18 Chemical kinetics 28 & 29 Apr 19 Exam 3 Apr 25 27 Rate theory and molecular reaction dynamics 28 & 30 May 2 4 Solids and surfaces (if time) 31 5