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 includes lectures in the classroom. Lectures include the presentation of theoretical content and numerical exercises aimed at encouraging 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