Physical Chemistry

Module code: CH2203

During your first year at Leicester, you will have been introduced to the core systems behind physical chemistry - the application of principles from physics to the study of chemical systems. This module will expand on those further and delve deeper into the infrastructure behind chemistry.

Topics covered

• The thermodynamics of solution formation
• Different methods of transportation
• Ion migration & diffusion
• The nature of a colloid and its stability
• The size and shape of colloidal particles, and the interplay between the attractive and repulsive interactions between them
• The principles of collision theory and transition state theory
• Reactions and their associated mechanisms including methods available for their determination
• The kinetics of chemical reactions and how they are influenced by homogenous and heterogeneous catalysts including associated mechanisms; how catalysis can be monitored and modelled
• Qualitative and quantitative analyses of and solving problems involving the movement of charged and neutral species in solutions and kinetic data