CHEM 205 Lecture Notes - Thermodynamics, Ideal Gas Law, Tropopause
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Office hours: monday 4-5 pm in chemistry b150. Notes: vista: notes section 203 (see also general notes for course 205) Quizzes: vista section 203, time: 15 min. single access available monday 10 am through wednesday 2 am (first quiz: january 10) Midterm, 15%: 6:30-7:30 pm monday february 7th, 2011. Thermodynamics is central to chemistry, biological processes, and thus central to life. It explains why reactions occur (the driving forces of the reactions), and the energy a reaction generates or requires: introduction: the properties of gases. Gases form the working substance of many machines (e. g. , heat engines, refrigerators) and it is important to understand their properties. The gas phase is also the simplest state of matter to treat theoretically, and it shows limiting behavior that is universal. This enables us to make a number of useful generalizations. In the early stages of developing and understanding thermodynamic concepts we shall deal largely with the gas phase because of its simplicity and generality.