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Format of tests: The tests will be comprised primarily of exercises/problems similar in style and difficulty level to those assigned as homework and those worked in class. (Make sure that you work plenty of homework problems - to the extent that you can work quickly through exercises.)
In addition, you MAY encounter multiple choice, short answer, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, or matching questions which relate to CONCEPTS covered.
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The below details are SUBJECT TO CHANGE! This information was posted on August 27, and may be modified prior to test date. Test information provided in class takes precedence!
Material to be covered: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3 (TBD)
To know: In general - anything covered in class; material from the text
"Hints" - Chapter 1:
Ideal gas law"Hints" - Chapter 2:
Mixtures of gases (Dalton's law, . . .)
manometer?
Zeroth law of thermodynamics
Individual gas laws (Boyle's, Charles, . . .)
Real gases
Compression factor
Virial equation of state
Critical constants
van der Waals equation
Principle of corresponding states, reduced variablesWork, heat, internal energy, enthalpy under various conditions
Heat capacities
Using mathematics to manipulate the above
Molecular motions and relationship to energy and heat capacity
Hess's law
First Law of Thermodynamics
Kirchoff's law"Hints" - Chapter 3:
Total differential
Exactness
Path and state functions
The below details are SUBJECT TO CHANGE! This information was posted on October 18, and may be modified prior to test date. Test information provided in class takes precedence!
Material to be covered: Chapter 3 and Chapter 4; Additionally, fundamental equations from earlier chapters
To know: In general - anything covered in class; material from the text
"Hints" - Chapter 3:
Total differential
Exactness
Path and state functions
isothermal compressibility
Joule-Thompson coefficient
Expansion coefficient
Internal pressure
Relationships between Cv and Cp
"Hints" - Chapter 4:
More to come!
The below details are SUBJECT TO CHANGE! This information was posted on October 18, and may be modified prior to test date. Test information provided in class takes precedence!
Material to be covered: Chapter 5, Chapter 6, and Chapter 7; Additionally, fundamental equations from earlier chapters
To know: In general - anything covered in class; material from the text
"Hints" - Chapter 5:
As discussed in class
"Hints" - Chapter 6:
As discussed in class
"Hints" - Chapter 7:
As discussed in class
The below details are SUBJECT TO CHANGE! This information was posted on October 18, and may be modified prior to test date. Test information provided in class takes precedence!
Material to be covered: Chapter 9 and Chapter 25; Additionally, fundamental equations from earlier chapters
To know: In general - anything covered in class; material from the text
"Hints" - Chapter 9:
equilibrium constants
Gibbs energy
Gibbs reaction energy
reaction quotient
dissociation
van't Hoff equation
Le Chatelier's principle
"Hints" - Chapter 25:
reaction order
rate equations
half-life
first-order rates
second-order rates
rate constants
pseudo-order rate laws
flooding
isolation method
method of initial rates
steady state approximation
Arrhenius equation
activation energy
elementary reaction
molecularity
FINAL EXAM:
Note that this list is not comprehensive, and is subject to change. Information will be updated in class, not necessarily via the web.
(1)
The best exam preparation is done by reviewing all assigned homework
problems, previous exams, the listing provided here, and the chapter overviews
provided at the end of each chapter.
(2) The final exam is comprehensive.
Topics
include (but are not limited to) the following:
Ideal
gas law
Charles
law, Boyle's law, Advogadro's principle
Dalton's
law
Mole
fractions
Compression
factor
Relationship
between U, q, and w
General
expression for work
Enthalpy
and its relationship to U, p, and V
Relationship
between heat capacities for an ideal gas
Hess's
law
Kirchoff's
law
U
with respect to V and T (see early part of Chapter 3; be
able to express other functions using this type of notation!)
Entropy
and its relationship to q and T; Clausius inequality
Carnot
cycle (and related formulas - though NOT the efficiency formulas!)
Be able to apply formulas - i.e. when does q = DH? (and this type of info for other thermodynamic functions)
Entropy
of phase transition
Gibbs
energy and its relation to H, T, S
Helmholtz
energy and its relation to U, T, S
DH,
DG,
and DS
for reactions via a table (i.e. from the back of the book!)
partial
molar volume
total
volume related to partial molar volumes
Gibbs-Duhem
equation
Entropy
of mixing and Gibbs energy of mixing (formulas with mole fractions)
Raoult's
law
Henry's
law
Reaction
quotient, equilibrium constants as used in Chapter 9
relationship
between two different K?s:
Concepts
to know/be able to use (also use the listing provided in class!):
will be given
van
der Waals
virial
equation
system,
surroundings
boundaries
exothermic,
endothermic
work,
energy
laws
of thermodynamics (first, second, third)
be able to use general expression for work and apply it to different problems ? i.e. free expansion, expansion against constant pressure, . . . .
state functions, path functions
exact and inexact differentials
partial derivatives
be able to plug in different conditions into various relationships like that between S, q, and T
Trouton's rule
Be able to derive Mawell's relations
Gibbs-Helmholtz
Pressure and temperature dependence of Gibbs energy
Chemical potential
Phase diagrams
Critical points
Phase boundaries and chemical potential
Fundamental equation of thermodynamics
Ideal solutions
Ideal dilute solutions
Mole fraction vs. pressure plots (Chap 7)
Reaction Gibbs energy at equilibrium and otherwise
Spontaneity
Exergonic/endergonic
Q or K
Degrees of dissociation
Equilbrium response to pressure and temperature
Le Chatelier's principle
Be able to obtain info from ln k vs. 1/T plot
Remaining material covered at end of semester