Gases: Behaviour of Gasses. Ideal Gas Law, the Law of Partial Pressure. Gas densities and molecular weights, Equation of state for Real gasses, Liquefaction and gasses.
First Law of Thermodynamics: Forms of Energy, Conservation of energy, Initial and Isothermal Gas expansion, Adiabatic Expansion, Enthalpy, Latent Heat effects. Thermo Chemistry: Standard states, Calonmetry, Thermo-chemical Equations, Hess Law, Heat of Reaction, Heats of Formation Heats of Solution, Thermo-chemistry of Ionic solutions, Bond energies.
Second Law of Termodynamics: Spontaneity, Reversible and Irreversible processes, Gibbs free energy and Entropy, Helmholtz Equation. Kinetic Theory of Gases: Postulates of kinetic Theory, Conformation of Kinetic molecular Theory, the Distribution of Molecular Speeds – Maxwell-Boltzmann Laws.
- Lecturer: Yakubu Yerima