NKEB09 · 6 credits · Basic level (G1F) · Kemi
Physical Chemistry, Spectroscopy
Active · next start VT 2027
80%
passed the latest ordinary exam
TEN1 · 26 Mar 2026 · 15 students
80%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
TEN1 · 55 students
Part of 2 programmes
Exam
TEN1 Written examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
80% passed · 55 students
- 80%15
- 75%12
- 81%21
- 86%7
Re-exams
82% passed · 17 students
- 100%5
- 40%5
- 100%7
- Pass the re-exam: 82% (17 students), compared with 80% (55 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 32% (72 students)
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Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
LAB1 Laboratory work
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 60 students
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- 100%7
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- 100%24
- 100%7
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
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About the course
Aim
To be able to reason about, understand and thereby apply kinetic, quantum mechanical and spectroscopic concepts and relationships, be able to treat kinetic, quantum mechanical and spectroscopic questions and solve related problems, and evaluate the reasonableness of obtained kinetic, quantum mechanical and spectroscopic results.
Examined through the exam (TEN1) and laboratory reports (LAB1).
To be able to perform kinetic and spectroscopic experiments and to be able to analyze the results obtained.
Examined through compulsory attendance and laboratory reports (LAB1).
Content
Kinetics: rate equations and their integration, reaction order, half life, mechanisms, catalysis, photochemistry, techniques for measuring fast reactions, flow, flash and relaxation methods, activation energies and molecular reaction dynamics. Quantum mechanics: basic quantum-mechanical concepts, particle-in-a-box, harmonic and anharmonic oscillator, rotation on a ring and on a sphere, the hydrogen atom, plus elementary introduction to many-electron atomic and molecular electron structure. Spectroscopy: interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter by absorption and emission, fluorescence and phosphorescence, lasers, rotational, vibrational and electron spectroscopic methods such as microwave, infrared, visible/UV, X-ray photoelectron and magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
- Examiner
- Lars Ojamäe
- Scheduled hours
- 56 h
- Main field of study
- Kemi