CHEM434-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Kinetics and Spectroscopy

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

If you want to really understand chemistry, this is the course for you: it applies the fundamental physical and chemical principles developed in CHEM333 and CHEM343 to predict, explain and understand properties, structure and reactivity at a microscopic level. The topics covered by this course are: - Spectroscopy and quantum mechanics - Advanced reaction kinetics

Prerequisites

Recommended Preparation

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 13:00 - 14:00 Link 309 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 11:00 - 12:00 Jack Erskine 239
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 13:00 - 14:00 Ernest Rutherford 260
24 Feb - 2 Mar
10 Mar - 16 Mar
24 Mar - 30 Mar
28 Apr - 4 May
12 May - 18 May
26 May - 1 Jun

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Greg Russell

Lecturer

Sarah Masters

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment 1: Sarah Masters 10%
Assignment 2: Greg Russell 10%
Exam 80%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,213.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Physical & Chemical Sciences .

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  • CHEM434-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025