Chemistry

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Department of Sanitary and Ecological Engineering

Synopsis:

Lectures deals with the basic chemical principles in branches as general, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. Instances of topics are atomic structure, chemical bonds, chemistry of selected elements, chemical kinetics and equilibrium, fundamentals of thermodynamics, chemistry of acids and bases, properties of gases and electrochemistry. As examples of taking advance of chemistry in experience, there will be inserted two lessons concerned with the building materials and the chemistry of water.

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Syllabus of lectures:

General chemistry and the chemical calculations

1 Compounds (molecules, ions, moles, chemical formulas, mixtures...)

2 Chemical reactions (chemical equation, precipitation, stoichiometry...)

3 Atomic structure (atoms, atomic particles and orbitals, periodic table...)

4 Chemical bonds (nature of bonds, valence-bond theory, nomenclature...)

5 Revision of previous topics

Rules of inorganic, organic, physical and analytical chemistry

6 Chemistry of selected elements (feature, production and preparation...)

7 Chemical kinetics and equilibrium (reaction rates, equilibrium calc...)

8 Fundamentals of thermodynamics (first and second law, entropy...)

9 Building materials of organic and inorganic origin*)

10 Acids and bases (dissociation, indicators and titration, buffers...)

11 Chemistry of water and basic analytical procedures*)

12 Gases (ideal gas law, kinetic-molecular theory, behaviour of real gases...)

13 Electrochemistry (galvanic cells, electrochemical measurement of pH...)

14 Revision of previous topics

*) lectures 9) and 11) serves as examples of taking advantage of chemistry in experience

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Study Objective:

Preparing students for further study by providing a dynamic and conceptual view of matter and the environment and by introducing the logical problem-solving methods of chemistry in civil engineering.

Study materials:

[1] Atkins P., Jones L.: Chemical Principles, Freeman, 1999, [2] Russell J. B.: General Chemistry, McGraw-Hill, 1992

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: