With this course, students will understand the basics of chemical thermodynamics to have chances of learning the relationship between statistical mechanics and chemical phenomena such as chemical equilibrium and reaction dynamics.

Physical Chemistry I, Quantum mechanics, or permission of the instructor

Homework, 25%;
Attendance, 0% (F for the absence of more than 5 times);
Prelim I, prelim II, and final: each worth 25%

D. A. McQuarrie, Statistical Mechanics, (University Science Books).
J. I. Steinfeld et al., Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics (Prentice, 1989).
J. M. Hollas, Modern spectroscopy, 4th ed., (Wiley, 2004)
R. Shankar, Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 2nd ed., (Springer, 2005)

Week 1: Review of Quantum Mechanics
Week 2: Molecular Spectroscopy, NMR
Week 3: The Properties of Gases
Week 4: The Boltzmann Factor and Partition Functions
Week 5: Partition Functions and Ideal Gases
Week 6: The First Law of Thermodynamics
Week 7: Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Week 8: Entropy and the Third Law of Thermodynamics
Week 9: Helmholtz and Gibbs Energies
Week 10: Phase Equilibria
Week 11: Solutions I and II
Week 12: Chemical Equilibrium
Week 13: The Kinetic Theory of Gases; Chemical Kinetics: Rate Laws
Week 14: Chemical Kinetics: Reaction Mechanisms and Reaction Dynamics
Week 15: No lecture
Week 16: Final Exam.

Do not miss the class. Absence of 5 times or more will result in F grade. I found the correlation between the number of absence and grade is very close to −1.
Doing homework is essential. You should do it to your best. Homework grade is based on how hard you worked on it. Some problem sets may require math programs such as Matlab. The lecture will be given mostly in English.

Prelim I and II will be given after week 6 and week 11.

You are encouraged to study together and to discuss information and concepts covered in lecture with other students. You can give "consulting" help to or receive "consulting" help from such students. However, this permissible cooperation should never involve one student having possession of a copy of all or part of work done by someone else. Should copying occur, both the student who copied work from another student and the student who gave material to be copied will automatically receive a zero for the assignment. Penalty for violation of this Code can also be extended to include failure of the course and University disciplinary action.