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CHE 231Physical Chemistry 2

Units
0.50
Faculty
Engineering
Subject
Chemical Engineering

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 5 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Thermodynamics: ideal solutions; non-ideal solutions, non-electrolytic and electrolytic solutions, phase equilibrium and phase diagrams, reaction equilibrium. Surface phenomena: surface tension, capillarity, properties of small particles, adsorption. Chemical kinetics: rate laws, reaction rates, mechanisms, catalysis, heterogeneous reactions.

Prerequisites

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Fall 2026 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
SectionClassEnrolledMeets
LEC 001452573 / 78T 10:30–12:20
Th 10:30–11:20
TUT 101452673 / 78Th 11:30–12:20

Reviewed on UW Flow

68% liked it55% easy73% useful

From 19 ratings and 3 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • Much of the course is review from CHE230. Nothing too difficult to grasp.

    Sep 2023 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • this course was review up to around the midterm and the content and its presentation ware more stale than a first year's chicken and rice meal prep. I skipped most of the lectures and found it really hard to pay attention to the ones I did go to. Even the prof would sometimes apologize for how boring the content was so I felt a bit bad but its all pretty intuitive and logical you just have to teach this one to yourself imo.

    Mar 2023 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • CHE 231 is a really straightfoward course. Half of it is review and half it expands on the first half slightly.

    Aug 2022 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

6 posts and comments in 5 threads mention CHE 231, October 2017 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Winter 2021

Fall 2020

Spring 2019

CHE 231 with Pu Chen Got wrecked on the exam 6 points, 6 comments

u/Taco220: “I have Pu Chen for CHE 231 and we wrote our final and our class got wrecked . Im really worried about my final mark but a lot of upper years said he curves the marks. …”

u/articuno289: “It's like that for every che231 class. I think ours got curved but that was a while ago. Honestly don't worry about it, our class was freaking out about it until we got the marks back and suddenly everything was ok. Good luck with your other exams.”

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Spring 2018

Fall 2017

Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments

“posting a reply to my comment I find the bot annoying.”

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u/Jackhofmann: “… 492MW BUS 492W BUS 493UW CHE 100 CHE 102 CHE 200 CHE 201 CHE 202 CHE 211 CHE 220 CHE 230 CHE 231 CHE 241 CHE 290 CHE 291 CHE 298 CHE 299 CHE 302 CHE 313 CHE 331 CHE 361 CHE 391 CHE 399 CHE 401 CHE 420 CHE 425 CHE 480 CHE 482 CHE 490 CHE 498 CHE 499 CHE 514 CHE 516 CHE 541 CHE …”

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