Apr 03, 2025

2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Calendar

CHEM 3040U – Fundamentals of Physical Chemistry

Thermodynamics concepts including solution thermodynamics, phase equilibria, and electrochemistry; transport phenomena, the random walk problem and diffusion; introduction to statistical mechanics including probability distributions and entropy, fluctuations, the Boltzmann distribution, and partition functions and their relation to thermodynamic functions.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3
Tutorial hours: 1
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2040U
Experiential learning: Yes