Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Introduction to Thermodynamics
University of Hull
This online course enabled participants to calculate the amounts – in moles and mass – of chemical substances, and compare gases in ideal and non-ideal conditions to improve calculation accuracy. Participants also learned how to predict a chemical reaction based on energetic properties and temperature, classify reactions as endothermic or exothermic, and predict and classify reactions as spontaneous or nonspontaneous.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Becky Huxley-Binns
Pro-Vice Chancellor Education
University of Hull
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Calculate pressures, temperatures and volumes of gases and gas mixtures, and how these will respond to changing conditions
- Explain the underlying basic physics of gas molecules and their related properties
- Describe the relationship between thermodynamic properties such as energy, pressure and temperature
- Calculate the amounts, in moles and mass, of chemical substances based on their gaseous properties
- Compare gases in ideal and non-ideal (more realistic) conditions to improve the accuracy of calculations
- Demonstrate whether a chemical reaction will happen based on its energetic properties and temperature
- Classify chemical reactions as endothermic or exothermic, predict whether they increase or decrease in entropy, and then finally predict and classify reactions as spontaneous or non-spontaneous
Syllabus
- The ideal gas law – calculation of temperature, pressure and volume
- Non-ideal conditions (real gases) and compression
- The nature of energy and work
- Heat capacity
- Entropy and free energy
Issued on 6th April 2022
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