Syllabus  

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

 Department of Chemistry

 

Physical chemistry for Nano and Chem Eng students

204-1-2881

Dr. Iris Visoly-Fisher

Spring Semester

Course Description: Chemical kinetics: reaction -rate, -order, -mechanism, catalysis, photochemistry, kinetics of electron transfer

Course Structure:

            Lecture: 2 hr/wk   Recitation: 1 hr/wk     Lab: N/A   Total # of Credits:  2.5

Course requirements:

            1. Homework assignments

            2. Paper and presentation

            3. Final exam

Structure of Final Course-Grade:

                        Component                 Weight

            1.         Homework                   10%

            2.         Paper                           25%.

            3.         Final exam                    65%

                        __________                _______

            Total:                                      100%

A "Pass" requirement regarding final exam: Yes/No

Lecturer Details:

            Reception hours: by appointment, Building 29, Room 113

            E-mail: irisvf AT bgu.ac.il            Telephone: 72716

Teaching Assistant Details: Maya Kleiman

            Reception hours: by appointment

            E-mail: km AT bgu.ac.il                Telephone: 79470

Description of Meetings

Meeting

Subject(s)

1

Introduction, reaction rate and order

2

Reaction mechanisms

3

Complex reactions

4

Chain reactions, kinetics in liquids

5

Kinetics in gas, collision theory

6

Experimental techniques

7

Catalysis

8

Catalysis

9

Photochemistry

10

Photochemistry

11

Kinetics of electron transfer

12

Student paper presentations

13

Student paper presentations

 
Course textbooks

            1. Atkins, De Paula, Atkins’ Physical Chemistry, 7th ed., Oxford 2002

            2. Logan, Fundamentals of chemical kinetics, Longman 1996