OVERVIEW

The Chemistry course provides the fundamental principles of chemistry for engineering students, covering the basic concepts of inorganic chemistry together with an introduction to organic chemistry. The course offers an overview of the quantities, terminology, and methodologies commonly used in the analysis and solution of chemical problems. It also introduces the main areas of chemistry that are relevant to engineering education, providing the scientific foundation required for subsequent engineering courses.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course provides the basic chemical knowledge indispensable to describe the behaviour of materials, and to face the interpretation of natural, environmental and technological processes.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Attendance and active participation in the proposed training activities and individual study will allow the student to:

- solve numerical exercises on the balancing and stoichiometry of chemical reactions.

- Analyze the elementary chemical properties of liquids, gases and solutions.

- Understand the structure of ionic, covalent, metallic and molecular solids.

- Solving thermodynamics, equilibrium and kinetic exercises related to chemical and electrochemical systems.

- Know the basic fundamentals of organic chemistry and nuclear chemistry.

- Describe the main pollution phenomena

PREREQUISITES

For a successful learning, basic knowledge of mathematics and physics is required, but no formal prerequisites are required.

TEACHING METHODS

The course is delivered through face-to-face lectures. Teaching activities include the presentation of theoretical concepts and the development of numerical exercises aimed at promoting the understanding of the fundamental principles of chemistry and their application to the solution of chemical problems, as well as the discussion of selected examples of chemical phenomena.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

• Inorganic nomenclature: Oxides, anhydrides, hydroxides, acids, Salts
• Stoichiometry of the chemical reactions, quantitative exercises, reaction yield
• concentration of the solutions: percent composition, mole fractions, molarity.
• Atomic structure of the matter: atomic models, quantum numbers, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, Pauli exclusion principle.
• Periodic table: periodic classification of elements and properties of groups
• Organic chemistry nomenclature
• Nuclear energy and radioactivity: Radioactive emissions, half-life
• Atomic bonds: covalent, ionic, metallic bond, hydrogen bond, weak bonds
• The gas laws: Boyle’s, Charles’s, Gay-Lussac’s and Avogadro’s laws, ideal and real gas law, the volume of gases in the chemical reactions.
• Fundamentals of Thermodynamics: 1° and 2° principle of Thermodynamics, Enthalpy, Entropy, free Energy
• Chemical equilibriums: the equilibrium constant, relation between free energy and equilibrium.
• Heterogeneous equilibrium: state diagrams
• Chemical kinetic: reaction order, Arrhenius’s law.
• The solutions: pH and the hydrolysis
• Electrochemical systems: batteries, fuel cells, electrolysis
• Water, Air, & Soil Pollution.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lecture notes and the teaching materials available on AulaWeb are sufficient for exam preparation. However, the following textbook is recommended as supplementary reading for further study and practice:

• M. Panizza, Chimica per Ingegneria (Teoria ed esercizi).

Sample final examinations from previous academic years, together with their solutions, are available on the course AulaWeb page.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

LESSONS START

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Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The assessment consists of a written examination including both numerical problems and theoretical questions, with an optional oral examination. Students who pass the written examination with a grade of at least 18/30 may choose either to take the oral examination on the scheduled dates or to accept the grade obtained in the written examination.

The written examination may be retaken; however, in this case, only the grade obtained in the most recent written examination will be considered.

Students who obtain a minimum grade of 16/30 in the written examination are eligible to take the oral examination. In this case, the final grade for the course will be the average of the written and oral examination grades.

Three examination sessions are offered during the winter examination period (January, February, and during the Easter teaching break established by the Polytechnic School) and three during the summer examination period (June, July, September, and during the autumn teaching break established by the Polytechnic School). No extraordinary examination sessions will be scheduled outside the periods established by the Polytechnic School, except for students who have not included any teaching activities in their study plan for the current academic year.

Examination results will be published on the course AulaWeb page.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The exam tests with the student will allow:
evaluate the knowledge of the atomic structure;
verify the understanding of the mechanisms of strong and weak chemical bond formation;
evaluate understanding of the structure of solids, liquids and understanding of the gas state equations;
evaluate the ability to identify the relationships between electrical, magnetic and mechanical structure and properties;
to evaluate the knowledge of the main thermodynamic and kinetic quantities involved in the transformation of matter and the conditions of the chemical equilibrium;
verify the ability in the quantitative evaluation of gaseous equilibriums, in aqueous solutions and in electrochemical systems;
discuss all the proposed activities with a scientific method and appropriate language.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Students with a certified learning disability (DSA), a disability, or other special educational needs are invited to contact the instructor at the beginning of the course to discuss teaching and examination arrangements that, while respecting the learning objectives of the course, take individual learning needs into account and provide appropriate accommodations.
Please also note that requests for exam accommodations or exemptions must be submitted using the form available at this link https://modulionline.unige.it/richiesta-adattamenti#no-back , to the course professor, the DIME contact person (federico.scarpa@unige.it), and the relevant office (inclusione.studenti@info.unige.it) at least seven working days before the examination, in accordance with the guidelines available at this link https://unige.it/disabilita-dsa/richiesta-servizi

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