CH3004:03
Physical Chemistry
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
32 hours lectures, 4 hours tutorials, 36 hours practicals. Semester 2.
Staff: Dr B McCool, Dr M Ridd.
An introduction to quantum mechanics and its applications to chemical systems, statistical thermodynamics and spectroscopy; an introduction to computational techniques for molecular structure; molecular mechanics; semi-empirical and ab-initio SCF methods; molecular dynamics; molecular modelling. Electrode kinetics.
Learning Objectives:
- use modern computational techniques to model molecular structure and molecular modelling;
- apply quantum mechanics to chemical problems;
- understand the fundamentals and importance of electrode kinetics.
Assessment by a three-hour end-of-semester examination (70%); laboratory work (30%).