PhysicsⅠ

Course title
物理学Ⅰ [PhysicsⅠ]
Course category	technology speciality courses	Requirement		Credit	2
Department		Year	1～4	Semester	3rd
Course type	3rd	Course code	021104
Instructor(s)
中村暢文 [NAKAMURA Nobufumi]
Facility affiliation	Faculty of Engineering	Office	afjgxte/L1151	Email address

Course description

This class introduces some of the basic concepts of thermodynamics which is one of the most important topics in physical chemistry, which is the subject of the specialty field of biotechnology. As “a science and liberal arts course” of “the global liberal arts group”, this lecture aims to acquire the basic law of thermodynamics, to be able to understand life phenomena and living things from thermodynamic point of view.

Lectures are conducted based on a textbook from "unit" which is the foundation of science, to the first and second laws of thermodynamics, finally Gibbs energy. In each lesson, I will conduct an exercise to deepen the understanding of the lesson content of that class, so I would like you to use it for review. I am specifying an English textbook, so I would like you to prepare and take classes and learn technical terms in both English and Japanese.

Google Classroom Classs Code: rdnytmx

Expected Learning

Students who successfully complete this course will able to:
1) Understand the concepts such as heat, work, internal energy, and enthalpy and the first law of thermodynamics correctly.
2) Explain the energy conversion in life using thermodynamics.
3) Understand the concepts such as entropy and Gibbs energy and assess the spontaneity of a biological process.

This subject corresponds to the viewpoint A of the diploma policy.

Course schedule

Week 1: Fundamental 1 of physical chemistry (Fundamentals in the text book)
Understanding units, state, force, energy, and pressure
Week 2: Fundamental 2 of physical chemistry (Fundamentals in the text book)
Understanding temperature, equations of state, and the Maxwell distribution
of speeds
Week 3: The first law of thermodynamics 1 (Chapter 1)
Understanding the energy conversion and the concepts of thermodynamics such
as systems, surroundings, work, and heat
Week 4: The first law of thermodynamics 2 (Chapter 1)
Understanding the energy conversion in living organisms, reversible
processes, and expansion work
Week 5: The first law of thermodynamics 3 (Chapter 1)
Understanding heat capacity and internal energy and learning the first law of
thermodynamics
Week 6: The first law of thermodynamics 4 (Chapter 1)
Understanding enthalpy and the enthalpy change of phase transition
Week 7: The first law of thermodynamics 5 (Chapter 1)
Understanding the bond enthalpy, thermodynamical properties of fuels, and
standard enthalpies of formation
Week 8: Measurement of heat (Chapter 1 and supplementary materials)
Understanding differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), isothermal titration
　　　　calorimetry (ITC), protein interaction
Week 9: Summary of the first law of thermodynamics
Midterm examination
Week 10: The second law of thermodynamics 1 (Chapter 2)
Understanding entropy, entropy change, and absolute entropies
Week 11: The second law of thermodynamics 2 (Chapter 2)
Understanding standard reaction entropy and spontaneity of chemical
reactions
Week 12: The second law of thermodynamics 3 (Chapter 2)
Understanding Gibbs energy and relation between Gibbs energy and
spontaneity
Week 13: The second law of thermodynamics 4 (Chapter 2)
Understanding the Gibbs energy of assembly of proteins and biological
membranes
Week 14: The second law of thermodynamics 5 (Chapter 2)
Understanding the relationship between nonexpansion work and Gibbs free energy
Week 15: Summary of the second law of thermodynamics and Gibbs energy
　　　　 Final examination

Prerequisites

Students entering this class are assumed to have had “Basic physics” and “Basic chemistry”. This class leads to “Biophysical chemistry I” and “Biophysical chemistry II”.
In addition to 30 hours that students spend in the class, students are recommended to prepare for and revise the lectures, spending the standard amount of time as specified by the University by reviewing the exercises to be done in each lesson and by solving the problems at the end of the text.

Required Text(s) and Materials

Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula, Physical chemistry for the life sciences 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press 2011.

References

1) Donald A. McQuarrie and John D. Simon, Physical chemistry -a molecular approach-, University Science Books 1997.
2) Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula, Atkins' Physical chemistry 9th Edition, Oxford University Press 2010.
3) Hans Kuhn and Horst-Dieter Feorsterling, Principles of physical chemistry, Wiley 1999.

Assessment/Grading

Grades will be assigned based on students' performance on examination, quizzes, and reports. Midterm examination; 35%, final examination; 55%, and quizzes and reports; 10%.

Message from instructor(s)

Let's enjoy understanding nature.

Course keywords

Physical chemistry, Entropy, Enthalpy, Gibbs energy, Spontaneity

Office hours

16:00-17:00 Friday; Room 307, 3rd floor, 12th Building, Koganei Campus

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Lecture Language

Japanese

Language Subject

English

Last update

9/30/2021 12:08:11 PM