Entry requirements

Participation in Single Variable Calculus, 10 credits, and Basic Chemistry, 10 credits, or equivalent.

Learning outcomes

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

• explain different types of transport processes in solution using relevant concepts, account for how these can of significance to different technical applications, as well as carry out calculations from corresponding transport properties.
• discuss the properties of liquids at interfaces as well as describe the properties of surface active substances and discuss the driving forces and properties of self-associating systems as well as perform simple calculations of corresponding properties.
• derive rate equations and perform kinetics calculations on different types of chemical reactions and reaction mechanisms as well as discuss applications and environmental consequences of different catalytic methods.
• use simple models for the calculation of molecular parameters from spectrophotometric or spectroscopic measurements as well as discuss molecular energy diagrams.
• plan and carry out laboratory work in a correct and safe way as well as perform simple risk and safety assessments
• document laboratory work in laboratory journals as well as present the results in writing in laboratory reports.

Content

Electrolytes and electric conductivity, diffusion, viscosity, sedimentation as well as technical applications of transport processes in solutions. Surface tension, surface active substances and self-associating systems. Reaction kinetics with concepts such as reaction rate, reaction mechanism, order of reaction, rate constant, activation energy and steady-state. Homogenous and heterogeneous catalysis as well as technical applications of catalysis. Spectrophotometry and spectroscopy.

Instruction

Lectures, tutorials and laboratory practicals.

Assessment

Written examinations at the end of the course corresponding to 3 credits and laboratory practicals corresponding to 2 credits. In order to pass the course, all course components must be passed. The final grade represents a weighted sum of the results of the written examinations and the laboratory practicals.

Other directives

Cannot be included in a higher education qualification together with 1KB308 Chemical Principles II, 1KB307 Physical Chemistry I or

1KB308 Physical Chemistry.