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UNIWERSITY OF WARSAW

1 Pasteura Str., 02-093 Warsaw, Poland, phone: +48 (0)22 822 02 11

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Subject

Atmospheric Chemical Kinetics


No / course unit code


Semester

2M

Type of course

Monographic Lecture


Teaching hours
 per semester    per week

30      2

ECTS credits

(...)


Lecturer:

Dr. hab. Tomasz Gierczak
Room: R168     Phone extn.:416     email: gierczak@chem.uw.edu.pl

Teaching Division:

Physics and Radiochemistry

Educational and
professional goals:

Courses on atmospheric chemical kinetics are offered aimed to broaden understanding of the chemical processes in the atmosphere. Major kinetic experimental techniques will be discussed.

Course description:

The modern kinetic methods used to investigate the fundamental chemical and photochemical processes vital for the Earth atmosphere (troposphere and stratosphere) will be presented. First, basics of kinetic experimental methods and photochemistry will be presented. Then the use of the most important kinetics experimental techniques, flash photolysis and discharge flow technique, in the gas phase rate coefficients measurements will be explained. Finally, the mechanisms for the most important atmospheric chemical processes and their connection with the major global problems like photochemical smog, stratospheric ozone depletion, global warming, acid rains will be discussed.

Required background:


Physical chemistry for undergraduate students.

Form of assessment:


Written test.

Remarks:

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