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    Module Description Thermal Chemistry Spring 20212022

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    This module provides a 10-credit introduction to thermal chemistry. It is taught every year in the spring semester through weekly lectures and tutorials. Assessment includes exams, a laboratory, and an in-class exam. The module aims to establish basic concepts in kinetics, equilibrium, thermodynamics, and organic chemistry. Key topics covered include reaction rates, factors affecting reactions, equilibrium, enthalpy changes, and functional groups in organic compounds.

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    This module provides a 10-credit introduction to thermal chemistry. It is taught every year in the spring semester through weekly lectures and tutorials. Assessment includes exams, a laboratory, and an in-class exam. The module aims to establish basic concepts in kinetics, equilibrium, thermodynamics, and organic chemistry. Key topics covered include reaction rates, factors affecting reactions, equilibrium, enthalpy changes, and functional groups in organic compounds.

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    This module provides a 10-credit introduction to thermal chemistry. It is taught every year in the spring semester through weekly lectures and tutorials. Assessment includes exams, a laboratory, and an in-class exam. The module aims to establish basic concepts in kinetics, equilibrium, thermodynamics, and organic chemistry. Key topics covered include reaction rates, factors affecting reactions, equilibrium, enthalpy changes, and functional groups in organic compounds.

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    This module provides a 10-credit introduction to thermal chemistry. It is taught every year in the spring semester through weekly lectures and tutorials. Assessment includes exams, a laboratory, and an in-class exam. The module aims to establish basic concepts in kinetics, equilibrium, thermodynamics, and organic chemistry. Key topics covered include reaction rates, factors affecting reactions, equilibrium, enthalpy changes, and functional groups in organic compounds.

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    Module Code: ENGFF021

    Module Name: Thermal Chemistry


    Module Convenor: Dr Kasturi Muthoosamy
    Second Module Convenor: NA
    Total Credits: 10
    Taught Semesters and Assessment Period: Spring (Default)
    Assessed by end of Spring Semester
    Session Availability: Taught every year
    Module Nature: Elective Module

    Summary of Content:
    The aim of this module is to establish students’ basic concepts of chemistry kinetic, chemistry equilibrium,
    chemistry thermodynamic and organic chemistry in preparation for undergraduate studies in engineering.

    Activities:
    Activity type Frequency (per week) Duration Timetable
    Lecture 1 2 hours Central
    Tutorial 1 1 hour Central

    Assessment Details:
    Assessment Type Percentage Requirement Length
    Exam 1 65% Students are required to answer all questions (8 – 2 hours
    10 questions) in Part A; and answer 2 out of 3 (or
    4) questions in Part B.
    Laboratory 15% Students are required to attempt 2 practical 2 hours per session
    sessions.
    In-class Exam 1 20% Students are required to answer 4 out of 5 1 hour 30 minutes
    questions.

    Aims:
    The aims of the module are to provide students with:
    • an introduction to gaseous, liquid and solid states
    • a basic understanding of reaction rate, factors affecting the reaction rate and catalysis
    • an introduction to reversible reactions and dynamic equilibrium
    • an introduction to enthalpy changes and Hess’ Law
    • an introduction to alky halides, alcohol, aldehyde and ketones

    Recommended Text:
    • Whitten, K.W., Davis, R.E., Peck L.M., & Stanley G.G. General Chemistry. 10th ed. Brooks/Cole. 2007. ISBN-
    10: 1133610668; ISBN-13: 978-1133610663

    References:
    • AS Level and A Level Chemistry (2004), B. Ratcliff, H. Eccles, J. Raffan, J. Nicholson, D. Johnson, & J.
    Newman, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0521544718)
    • JGR Briggs, Longman A-level Course in Chemistry, Longman, 2005, ISBN 981-4105-08-2.
    • Fullick, A. and McDuell B., EDEXCEL AS & A2 Chemistry, Pearson, 2009.

    Learning Outcomes:
    On completion of this module, the students will be able to:
    • describe the basic assumptions of the kinetic molecular theory as applied to an ideal gas
    • explain qualitatively in terms of intermolecular forces and molecular size for a gas to approach ideal
    behavior and the limitations of its ideality.
    • apply the general gas equation pV = nRT in calculations
    • apply kinetic-molecular model in describing liquid state, melting, vaporization and vapour pressure
    • describe the nature of energy changes that accompany chemical reactions
    • define the terms of various enthalpy changes of reactions and standard conditions, bond energy and
    lattice energy.
    • calculate the enthalpy changes, bond energy and lattice energy from appropriate experimental results
    • apply Hess’s law to construct energy cycles, including Born-Haber cycles
    • define the terms and calculate the rate of reaction, rate equation, order of reaction, rate constant and
    half-life of a reaction
    • identify the rate-determining step
    • describe the factors affecting the rate of reaction including the role of catalysts and activation energy
    involved.
    • interpret chemical reactions in terms of equilibria
    • describe the response of equilibrium to change
    • define and calculate the equilibrium constant and constant expressions such as Kp and Kc
    • interpret and use the nomenclature, general formulae and displayed formulae for alkyl halide, alcohols,
    aldehydes and ketones
    • interpret and use the terminology such as nucleophile, electrophile, free radical, addition, substitution
    associated with organic equations.

    Lecture outline:
    Week
    Lesson
    Number
    1 Chemical kinetics I
    Introduction, rate of reaction, rate law expression, 1st order integrated rate law expression, half life,
    Arrhenius equation,
    2 Chemical kinetics II
    reaction rate theories (collision and transition state theories), factors that affect reaction rates,
    reaction mechanisms (initial rates), activation energy, examples
    3 Chemical Equilibrium I
    Introduction, dynamic equilibrium, equilibrium constant, reaction quotient,
    4 Chemical Equilibrium II
    Le Chatelier's principle, factors that affect equilibria, relationship between Kp and Kc, examples
    5 Further organic chemistry-I (Part I)
    Alkyl halides, synthesis of alkyl halides, chemical reaction and mechanism of alkyl halides, alcohols
    (structure, physical properties, synthesis and chemical reactions)
    6 Further organic chemistry-I (Part II)
    Alkyl halides, synthesis of alkyl halides, chemical reaction and mechanism of alkyl halides, alcohols
    (structure, physical properties, synthesis and chemical reactions)
    7 Further organic chemistry-II (Part I)
    Introduction, aldehydes and ketones (synthesis, chemical reaction and mechanism), carboxylic acid
    (synthesis, chemical reactions and mechanisms), examples
    8 Further organic chemistry-II (Part II)
    Introduction, aldehydes and ketones (synthesis, chemical reaction and mechanism), carboxylic acid
    (synthesis, chemical reactions and mechanisms), examples
    9 Chemical thermodynamics
    Introduction, thermodynamics terms, enthalpy changes (standard enthalpy changes, standard molar
    enthalpies of formation), Hess's law, bond energies, examples
    10 Gases (Part I)
    Boyle’s Law, Charles’ Law, Combined Gas Law, Avogadro’s law, Ideal Gas Law, Density and Molar
    Mass Calculations, Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures, Gas Stoichiometry, Kinetic Molecular Theory,
    Graham’s Law, Behaviour of Real Gases
    11 Gases (Part II)
    Boyle’s Law, Charles’ Law, Combined Gas Law, Avogadro’s law, Ideal Gas Law, Density and Molar
    Mass Calculations, Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures, Gas Stoichiometry, Kinetic Molecular Theory,
    Graham’s Law, Behaviour of Real Gases

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