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Lecturer:
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Teaching Division:
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Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry
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Educational and
professional goals:
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Understanding of fundamental structure of matter and physicochemical principles of its conversions. Capability to write chemical equations for simple chemical reactions, to predict the direction of these reactions and to propose their mechanism. Capability to predict fundamental properties of elements of main groups and to determine structures of simple chemical compounds (ionic and covalent) using the periodic table of elements. Capability to calculate heats of reactions, entropy and free energy changes in chemical reactions, equilibrium constants and the temperature dependence of equilibrium and rate constants.
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Course description:
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Brief review of the stoichiometry of chemical reactions and elementary properties of gas, liquid and solid states; intermolecular interactions. Phase and chemical equilibria, equilibrium constant. Ionic equilibria in aqueous solutions; solubility product, acidity constant, redox reactions. Atomic structure. Wavelike properties of electrons, quantum numbers, atomic orbitals. Electron configurations of atoms and their relation to the periodic table. Molecular orbitals and their properties. Covalent, metallic and ionic bonds. Prediction of molecular geometry (VSEPR theory). Amorphous solids and crystals. Thermodynamic principles; heat of reaction, entropy, Gibbs free energy and spontaneity of reactions; relation to equilibrium constant. Introduction to chemical kinetics. Reaction order. Activation energy. Transition state theory. Catalysts.
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Required background:
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Knowledge of fundamental concepts of chemistry (e.g., chemical elements and compounds, chemical symbols), physics (energy, gas laws), mathematics (logarithmic and exponential functions) on the secondary school level.
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Form of assessment:
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Exam
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Remarks:
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Admit to an examination after credit in seminars of General Chemistry.
Parallel to lectures conducted by dr hab. M. Orlik, prof. UW.
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