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Physical chemistry

2006-10-27T08:10:49Z

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Physical chemistry is domain in physical science ovrelap whth chemical science.
Many branches of thoughts and ideas that were developed by physicist over the
centuries have been applied to chemistry and that created new branches of knowledge.
Actually there was no difference that this something is chemistry or physics as the
knowledge developed; it's just as somebody needing a type of a knowledge and
investigating it and finding out something new for example when we tried to
understand the way heat is trasffered and how much work we can extract from
it; it gave rise to the branch of knowledge called thermodynamics and some
time later somebody realized that the thermodynamics is universal phenomenon
and that it can be applied to chemical systems. So when physics students are
taught merely thermodynamics chemistry students are taught chemical thermodynamics
which comes under physical chemistry.
The study of rates of reactions also come under physical chemistry and is called
chemical kinetics as opposed to kinetics in physics which is about the motion of
objects.But the big boost to physical chemistry came in the 20th century when the
scope of study went inside the atom and we needed to explain the things that are
happening on that scale; now physicist would contest that this is not the realm
of chemistry but that of physics. Well in reality this is a field which both the
sciences share. As the atomic theory evolved with the introduction of quantum
mechanics - which is the single most influential scientific branch of the 20th
century.

Physical chemistry

2006-10-27T08:08:56Z

203.247.35.197: introduction to physical chemistry

Physical chemistry is domain in physical science ovrelap whth chemical science. Many branches of thoughts and ideas that were developed by physicist over the centuries have been applied to chemistry and that created new branches of knowledge.Actually there was no difference that this something is chemistry or physics as the knowledge developed; it's just as somebody needing a type of a knowledge and investigating it and finding out something new for example when we tried to understand the way heat is trasffered and how much work we can extract from it; it gave rise to the branch of knowledge called thermodynamics and some time later somebody realized that the thermodynamics is universal phenomenon and that it can be applied to chemical systems. So when physics students are taught merely thermodynamics chemistry students are taught chemical thermodynamics which comes under physical chemistry.
The study of rates of reactions also come under physical chemistry and is called chemical kinetics as opposed to kinetics in physics which is about the motion of objects.
But the big boost to physical chemistry came in the 20th century when the scope of study went inside the atom and we needed to explain
the things that are happening on that scale; now physicist would contest that this is not the realm of chemistry but that of physics. Well in reality this is a field which both the sciences share. As the atomic theory evolved with the introduction of quantum mechanics - which is the single most influential scientific branch of the 20th century.