CHE 300 — THERMODYNAMICS AND INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS (CUR-199)
Summary 🟢 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Chemistry
- College/School: College of Science and Health
- Curriculum section: Environmental Science / Chemistry / Biology / CSH
- Catalog: CHE 300
- Last Verified: 2026-07-01
Course access
- Level: green (
Open Enrollment) - Rationale: No formal prerequisites listed in catalog description; open to any student meeting university registration rules.
- Prerequisites: None listed in catalog description
Verification
- Status: verified_catalog_course (
✓) - Rationale: Captured from official DePaul course catalog (2026-06-30 discovery pass).
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/che
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
This course will cover topics in thermodynamics, including thermodynamic laws, chemical potential, and both phase and chemical equilibria. In addition, the postulates of quantum mechanics will be discussed, and these postulates will applied to simple systems, allowing spectroscopic applications to be explored.
Hardware relevance
Quantum mechanics, quantum chemistry, or quantum information content in the official DePaul course catalog (thematic quantum audit, 2026-06-30).
Documented resource links
CSH-001
- Relationship: uses_facility
- Rationale: DePaul course catalog description references Core chemistry instrumentation. Catalog text matches Core chemistry instrumentation.
- Source URLs:
- catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/che
- Resource page: CSH-001
Notes
Catalog course key: CHE 300.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000138←depaul/SRC-000599(catalog_description)- Extraction status: linked
- Evidence packets:
2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses- Discovery themes: quantum
- Schedule (capture): 2026-2027 Autumn — Ruben Parra
- Evidence captures:
- Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-CHE-300.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-thematic-fab-optics-quantum-id-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-CHE-300.json - Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-CHE-300.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-resource-map-catalog-related-courses/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-CHE-300.json - Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.