fundamental concepts of thermodynamics ;
heat, work internal energy enthalpy, and the first law of thermodynamics;
the importance of state functions: internal energy and enthalpy
thermodynamics;
entropy and the second and third laws of thermodynamics ;
chemical equilibrium ;
the properties of real Gases ;
phase diagrams and the relative stability of solids, liquids and gases ;
ideal and real solutions;
electrolyte solutions ;
electrochemical cells, batteries and fuel cells;
from classical to quantum mechanics ;
the Schrodinger equation;
the quantum mechanical postulates ;
using quantum mechanics on simple systems;
the particle in a box and the real world;
commuting and noncommuting operators and the surprising consequences of entanglement ;
a quantum mechanical model for the vibration and rotation of molecules ;
the vibrational and rotational spectroscopy of diatomic molecules ;
many electrons atoms ;
quantum states for many electron atoms and atomic spectroscopy ;
the chemical bond in diatomic molecules ;
electronic spectroscopy ;
computational chemistry ;
molecular symmetry ;
nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy;
probability ;
the boltzmann distribution ;
ensemble and molecular partition functions ;
statistical thermodynamics;
kinetic theory of gases ;
transport phenomena ;
elementary chemical kinetics