Learning Outcomes

In this free course, you will learn how to:

• Define ‘enthalpy’
• Describe the different types of enthalpy changes
• Indicate the enthalpy changes of exothermic and endothermic reactions
• List the standard conditions used to obtain standard enthalpy
• Discuss Hess's Law and the enthalpy cycle diagram
• Outline the notions of lattice energy and lattice enthalpy
• Explain the concept of electron affinity 
• Summarise the factors that affect lattice energy
• Describe the ion polarisation and variables that impact it
• Outline Fajans’ rules for predicting the type of formed bond