CM2133 — FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

Academic Year 23/24 - Semester 2

Assessments:

Tutorial Attendance: 10%

Assignments: 40%
Test 1: 12.5%
Test 2: 12.5%
Finals: 25%

Lecturer: A/P Ryan Bettens & Dr Xu Hairuo

Course Overview:

Part 1: Beer-Lambert Law, Quantization and Schrodinger’s Equation, Spectroscopy
Part 2: Thermodynamics – Zeroth Law, Internal Energy, Adiabatic Processes, Thermochemistry and Calorimetry, Entropy, Gibbs Free Energy, Phase Equilibrium, Chemical Potential, and Chemical Equilibrium

Difficulty of the course: Difficult

Pace of the course: Too Fast

Duration provided to prepare for tutorials: 3-4 Days

Workload of Course (Average number of actual hours spent per week)

To learn the content: 4 hours

To complete assignments: 2 hours

REVIEW

What advice would you give to someone considering to take this course?

Hello: Try to get the big picture of all the topics as each topic in isolation was very confusing. Understanding the link between each topic helped me a lot.

What did you enjoy or find most useful from this course?

Hello: Tutorials were engaging and helped my understanding a lot.

What aspects of the course did you find most challenging, and why?

Hello: For some reason I just couldn’t seem to score full marks for assignments, didn’t really know what the marking points were (assignments came back graded but not marked).

What resources did you find most helpful in helping you better understand the course material?

Hello: YouTube videos about quantum were my saving grace.

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