MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu 5.62 Physical Chemistry II Spring 2008 For information about citing these materials or our Terms of Use, visit: http://ocw.mit.edu/terms.Information for Second Hour Exam The exam will be closed book and closed notes, but you will be allowed one sheet of 8.5 × 11″ paper (both sides) with your own notes, equations, and inspirational quotations.Note that you must incorporate a subset of your notes for Exam I onto this single sheet. You must bring a “simple” calculator. There will be a lot of numerical calculations. Material covered: Lectures 11-21 Problem Sets #4-#6 * qtrans, qrot, qvib , qelectronic Partition functions for internal degrees of freedom (including nuclear) of atoms,diatomic, and polyatomic molecules. nuclear spin, ortho/para symmetry number ortho/para Difference between qvib and q*vib Computation of Thermodynamic quantities for gases from spectroscopic data. Classical Mechanical formulation of Q(N,V,T) Equipartition High-T and Low-T limits for all thermodynamic quantities, especially Cv and U. Model inter-particle potentials Intermolecular interactions cluster expansion van der Waals and Virial equation Chemical equilibrium: µoA, µBo, etc. → Kp Kp(T) ↔ partition functions, group factors by type∆ D00 Dulong and Petit and Einstein models for the heat capacity of a
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