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Course Instructor Michael Mombourquette
OFFICE: CHE 209,
PHONE:  613-533-2612
EMAIL:    michaelm@chem.queensu.ca
MSN:       michaelmombourquette@hotmail.com
Website http://www.chem.queensu.ca/courses/09/chem221
Lectures Room: CHE 211,
Times: Monday - 0930h, Wednesday - 0830h, Thursday - 1030h.
Office hours Monday: 1430h-1600h
Wednesday 1330n-1600h
Other times, I may be able to see you.  Just drop in.
Lab Instructor Dr. Igor Kozin
OFFICE: CHE 124
PHONE: 613-533-6000x74665
EMAIL:  kozini@chem.queensu.ca
Textbook P. Atkins, J. de Paula, Physical Chemistry 8th ed. W. H. Freeman & Co., New York, NY (2006).
Required Software MS Excel or 100% file compatible alternative (but no support offered if you make an alternate choice)
Laboratory
Tutorial		 Students will alternate between labs and tutorials, starting in week 2 of the term.  Lab groups and tutorial section lists will be assembled during the Introductory Lab session (week 1 of term).
SCHEDULE:
Week 1: No tutorials.  Everyone must attend the Introductory Laboratory in their scheduled time.
Week 2: start of Lab/Tutorial rotations.  See the lab manual and Lab information section for detailed information on lab schedules.
Tutorials Tutorials involve a workshop type environment with problems assigned in the tutorial room with time given to work on them in groups.  Discussions will be held during the Tutorials as needed, either individually or within the whole tutorial session as needed to explain certain concepts.  Material covered in tutorial will supplement in-class material and could well form the basis for important exam questions.
Marking Laboratory Reports
 		 25%
 		 Lab Component
Tutorial work
Midterm
Final		 20%
25%
30%		 Lecture Component
total 100%  
Department Policy:

Students must pass both the lab component and the lecture component independent of each other to pass the course.  A failing average in either component, even if the overall average is above 50%, will result in a grade of 47% or your actual grade, whichever is lower.

Students MUST attend all Laboratory sessions.  Any unexcused absences will result in a grade of 47 IN.  Your grade will be restored to full value only after you return the following year and do the lab you missed.  If you do not complete all the labs, your grade will revert to a simple 47.
Course Outline This is a tentative list of topics. 
  1. Properties of Gases

    Chapter 1 and parts of chapter 21 and Custom notes.
     
  2. First look at energy and what makes up internal energy at the molecular level
    Custom notes, parts of chapter 8, 9 and 16.
     
  3. First Law of thermodynamics

    O    verview of basic concepts learned in the first-year chemistry course; Chapter 2
     
  4. Second and third law of thermodynamics

    Direction of spontaneous change; entropy; third law of thermodynamics; Helmholtz and Gibbs energies; combination of the first and second laws; Properties of the Gibbs energy;
    Chapter 3.
     
  5. Phase Changes:

    Chapter 4
     
  6. Simple mixtures

    Thermodynamic description of mixtures; properties of solutions; activities; Chapter 5.
     
  7. Phase diagrams
    Phases, components, and degrees of freedom; phase rule; one-component and two-component systems; Chapter 6.
  8. Equilibrium electrochemistry
    Thermodynamic properties of ions in solutions; electrochemical cells and reactions at electrodes; standard potentials; application of standard potentials; Chapter 7.
  9. Molecular interactions
    Electric properties of molecules; interactions between molecules; Chapter 18.
  10. Materials
    Chapters 19, 20    .

 
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 Students are responsible for familiarizing themselves with the regulations concerning academic integrity and for ensuring that their assignments conform to the principles of academic integrity.  Information on academic integrity is available in the Arts and Science Calendar (Academic Regulation 1) on the Arts and Science website, and from the instructor of this course.

 Departures from academic integrity include plagiarism, use of unauthorized materials, facilitation, forgery and falsification, and are antithetical to the development of an academic community at Queen's.  Given the seriousness of these matters, actions which contravene the regulation on academic integrity carry sanctions that can range from a warning or the loss of grades on an assignment to the failure of a course to a requirement to withdraw from the university.