LEARNING OUTCOMES

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

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide students the ability to understand and solve issues related to:

Interpretation and stoichiometric balance of chemical reactions.

Elementary chemical properties of liquids, gases and solutions.

Structure of ionic solids, covalent, metallic and molecular.

Thermodynamics, equilibrium and kinetics related to chemical and electrochemical systems.

Basic knowledge of organic chemistry and nuclear chemistry.

Water, Air, and Soil pollution

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

• Atomic structure of the matter: atomic models, quantum numbers, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, Pauli exclusion principle.
• Periodic table
• Nuclear energy and radioactivity: Radioactive emissions, half-life
• Atomic bonds: covalent, ionic, metallic bond, hydrogen bond, weak bonds
• Inorganic nomenclature: Oxides, anhydrides, hydroxides, acids, Salts
• Introduction to organic chemistry: nomenclature, polymers
• Stoichiometry of the chemical reactions, concentration of the solutions, quantitative exercises
• Solid state
• 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

- M. Panizza, G. Cerisola, Esercizi di chimica generale per Ingegneria, Ed. ECIG.

- Dispense di Chimica (Barbucci, Panizza)