Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Pharmacy & Biomolecular Sciences

Learning Methods

Lecture
Online
Practical
Workshop

Module Offerings

3404FNDSCI-SEP-CTY

Aims

This module provides students with an introductory understanding of thermodynamics, kinetics and the states of matter. It also serves to introduce concepts associated with simple molecular orbital theory, radioactivity, oxidation-states/redox chemistry and the properties and chemistry of selected main group elements.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Transition-state theory, rate of reactions, rate laws, reaction order and half-life. Collision theory and the Arrhenius equation. Effect of catalysts on rate. Phases and phase diagrams, Properties of gases and the gas laws. Spontaneous reactions, free energy, enthalpy and entropy. Chemical equilibrium. Molecular orbital diagrams of diatomic molecules, bond order/length/strength. Unstable nuclei, alpha, beta and gamma emission. Redox chemistry and half-equations. Chemistry of the elements of a selected main group. The mole and related calculations.
Module Overview:
This module provides an introductory understanding of thermodynamics, kinetics and the states of matter. It also serves to introduce concepts associated with simple molecular orbital theory, radioactivity, oxidation states/redox chemistry and the properties and chemistry of selected main group elements.
Additional Information:This module provides an introduction to key concepts of physical and inorganic chemistry at foundation level.

Assessments

Centralised Exam
Report