LEARNING OUTCOMES

To supply a basic chemical culture, required to describe the behaviour of the materials and to face the interpretation of the natural, environmental and technological processes.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The training activities proposed in the form of lectures, exercises and numerical applications, associated to the individual study, will allow the student to:

know the atomic structure;

understand the mechanisms of strong and weak chemical bond formation;

know the structure of solids, liquids and understand the gas state equations;

understand the relationships between electrical, magnetic and mechanical structure and properties;

to know the main thermodynamic and kinetic variables involved in the transformation of matter;

evaluate the conditions of the chemical equilibrium;

determine quantitatively the equilibriums in gas phase, in aqueous solutions and in the electrochemical systems;

discuss all the proposed activities with a scientific method and appropriate language.

TEACHING METHODS

The course includes lectures in the classroom. The lectures include the presentation of theoretical content and numerical exercises aimed at facilitating the learning and discussion of specific examples of chemical phenomena

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

The notes taken during the lessons and the material in the aulaweb are sufficient for the preparation of the exam, but the following book is suggested as supporting and in-depth text.

- M. Panizza, Chimica per Ingegneria (teoria ed esercizi)

On the aulaweb site of the course there are examples of final tests proposed in previous years with the related solutions