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🧂Physical Chemistry II
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191 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Physical Chemistry II exam

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13C NMR
1H NMR
4n+2 rule

A

Activated carbon
Adsorption-desorption equilibrium
Ammonia
Antibonding orbital
Associated Laguerre polynomials
Atomic Orbitals
Attractive Interactions
Average energy
Average rate of reaction
Azeotropic mixture

B

Baseline correction
Benzene
Bimolecular reaction
Block copolymers
Boiling point elevation
Boltzmann Entropy
Boltzmann Factor
Bond angles
Bonding electrons
Bonding orbital
Boron trifluoride
Boundary Conditions
Branched polymers

C

Calorimetry
Carbon nanotubes
Chemical reaction kinetics
Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients
Collapsed conformation
Condensation polymerization
Conductive polymers
Configurational Statistics
Contact Angle
Copenhagen Interpretation
Coulomb interaction
Critical Solution Temperature

D

Degeneracy
Degenerate perturbation theory
Density Functional Theory
Detailed balance
Diagonal Onsager coefficients
Differential Rate Law
Diffusion-viscous flow coupling
Dispersion forces
Dissipation Function
Dissipative processes
Dynamic light scattering
Dynamic Mechanical Analysis

E

Ebullioscopy
Eigenvalue problem
Elastic deformation
Electrolysis
Electron cloud
Electronic transitions
Electronic Wave Function
Electrostatic Interactions
Energy barrier
Energy eigenstate
Energy Eigenvalues
Energy expectation value
Energy Quantization
Entanglement Density
Enthalpic interactions
Enthalpy
Enthalpy of Activation
Entropy of mixing
Excited state dynamics
Extended conformation

F

Faraday's First Law
Faraday's Second Law
Flory-Huggins Interaction Parameter
Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem
Freezing point depression