Final exam information for the Fall 2006 course is provided below.   Best wishes in your preparations!

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, the chapter overviews provided at the end of each chapter, and notes from class.

(2)   The final exam is comprehensive, with the greatest weight placed upon the newest material (Chapters 11 and 12), though knowledge from all chapters is essential, as the exam is comprehensive.

(3)  Avoidance of questions involving derivatives or integrals will not result in a passing grade on the final exam.

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:

van der Waals * - formula to be given on exam - understand why the "corrections" are needed for real gases

virial equation * - formula to be given on exam

system, surroundings

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 (see Exam 3)

Fundamental equation of thermodynamics (defined in class notes)

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

reaction order

rate equations

half-life

first-order rates

second-order rates

rate constants

pseudo-order rate laws

isolation method

method of initial rates

steady state approximation

Arrhenius equation

activation energy

elementary reaction

molecularity

rate expressions for mechanisms

wave-particle duality

de Broglie relation

wavefunction

Schrodinger equation

Born interpretation

probability density, probability amplitude

spherical polar coordinates - be able to use them - know dt (tau) in spherical coordinates and the pertinent integral bounds

operator, eigenvalue, eigenfunction

linear combination

expectation value

Heisenberg uncertainty principle

eigenfunctions and eigenvalues

normalization

translation, vibrational, and rotational motions

particle in a box - infinite square well, boundary conditions, quantum numbers, zero-point energy

Dirac bracket notation

Kronecker delta

degeneracy

harmonic motion, force constant

energy levels

wavefunction

Gaussian function, Hermite polynomial

associated Legendre function

laplacian

spherical harmonics

spin

quantum numbers and their meaning

This material will be given on the exam:

  formulas for isothermal compressibility, internal pressure

An extended list of formulas that WILL be provided to you on the exam will be given to you on class on Monday, December 4.   You are responsible for all other formulas.