URL study guide
https://tue.osiris-student.nl/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus?cursuscode=6BBR04&collegejaar=2025&taal=enDescription
- This course covers the basics in the field of thermodynamics and chemical bonding.
- The introduction to thermodynamics part covers the properties of ideal and real gases, fundamentals of the first law of thermodynamics, thermochemistry, state functions and exact differentials, the second law of thermodynamics, direction of spontaneous change, the third law of thermodynamics, and combining the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
- The introduction to chemical bonding part covers the classical description of, quantum mechanics, atomic structure, molecular structure, bonding in organic molecules and interaction molecules with light.
Extra information about the assessment
The results of the digital tests and final exam are only valid in the academic year in which they were taken.
The final exam should have a minimum grade of 5.0, and the weighted average should be at least a 5.5.
The digital tests for this course will take place every afternoon (3 sessions per afternoon, with a maximal capacity of 36 students per session, during week 1 till week 7 of quartile 2, and every morning and afternoon (3 sessions per morning and 3 sessions per afternoon, with a maximal capacity of 36 students per session in week 8 of quartile 2. Each student has the right to have at least 1 resit for each digital test within the course, as long as the student distributed the attempts for the digital tests evenly over the quartile.
Objectives
- The student is able to apply simple equations of state for gases and fluids.
- The student is able to quantify and explain deviations from ideality.
- The student is able to explain the meaning of the critical point and critical temperature.
- The student is able to apply the thermodynamic definition of ‘system’ and ‘surroundings’ and of isolated, closed, and open systems.
- The student is able to use the 0th law of thermodynamics.
- The student is able to use the 1st law of thermodynamics and the concepts of internal energy, heat and work.
- The student is able to apply the concept of reversible processes, e.g. to adiabatic, isothermal, isobaric, and isochoric processes.
- The student is able to use the heat capacity at constant volume and constant pressure, and enthalpy as state variables.
- The student is able to compute and interrelate (standard) reaction enthalpy, reaction energy, and reaction entropy as a function of temperature.
- The student is able to use state variables and exact differentials.
- The student is able to use the 2nd law of thermodynamics, explain the direction of spontaneous change, and apply the definition of entropy.
- The student is able to analyze reversible heat engines.
- The student is able to use the 3rd law of thermodynamics.
- The student is able to apply the definitions of Gibbs energy and Helmholtz energy and the criteria for reversible/equilibrium processes, and compute the (standard) Gibbs/Helmholtz energy changes for processes.
- The student is able to employ Maxwell relations to relate non-measurable variables to measurable quantities.
- The student is able to apply the connection between the Gibbs energy and the equilibrium constant of a reaction, and predict the change of the equilibrium constant as a function of temperature.
- The student is able to describe the classical and quantum chemical description of molecules.
- The student is able to predict the molecular structure and electronic configuration.
- The student is able to describe the electronic structure of atoms with quantum numbers and energy levels.
- The student is able to provide a qualitative description of molecules with molecular orbitals.
- The student is able to describe the interaction of light with atoms and molecules in terms of transitions between quantum levels.