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CHIM-F205

Thermodynamique chimique

academic year
2024-2025

Course teacher(s)

Geneviève DUPONT (Coordinator) and Yannick DE DECKER

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

french

Course content

I. CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS : introduction, first principle, second principle, Nernst-Planck theorem, thermodynamics of perfect and real gases, chemical equilibrium, heterogeneous equilibria, thermodynamics of interfaces II. INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL MECHANICS : Boltzmann distribution and molecular partition function, canonical partition function, statistical expressions for U, S, F, p, H and G, derivation of the perfect gas equation and the Van der Waals equation, relationship between the equilibrium constant and the partition functions

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

The aim of the course is to provide a rigorous description of the basic principles of chemical thermodynamics and their statistical foundation. These principle are illustrated with typical chemical reactions and phase transition phenomena.

Prerequisites and Corequisites

Required and corequired courses

Cours ayant celui-ci comme co-requis

Teaching methods and learning activities

Ex-cathedra teaching. Supervised seminars for the resolution of problems.

Other information

Contacts

gdupont@ulb.ac.be

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Other

Other

One written examination about problems, and one oral examination.

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