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

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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 

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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​​​​​​​​​​

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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).

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

Hello: YouTube videos about quantum were my saving grace.