Chemistry
[FSAB1309]
[30h + 20h] 5 credits
This course is taught in the 2d semester.
Teacher(s):
Language: French
Level: First
Aims
To learn and understand the basic concepts governing the equilibrium and non equilibrium in chemical reactions.
To learn how to model the real world : to know how to bridge the gap between the concrete reality and abstraction, between individual cases and general laws, to go from qualitative to quantitative determinations.
Main themes
First theme : atom structure, chemical bonds and reactions (1.5 ECTS) in view to understand the concepts of ionic and covalent bonding and their influence at the level of the structure of the matter, the notion of electronegativity and also the acid-base concept.
Second theme :chemical thermodynamics bases mainly oriented to the second principle (1,5 ECTS) which allows formalising in a rigorous framework the intuitive notions of order and disorder, of free energy (and its relation with reaction equilibrium). The notions of perfect gases and real gases, the reaction equilibrium in gazeous phase are also developped.
Third theme : the equilibrium in aqueous phases (2 ECTS), in view of the quantification of the acid-base equilibrium, the concepts of solubility and of chemical precipitation, and more particularly the notions of electrochemistry in view to develop and understand the phenomenon of corrosion and its prevention.are studied.
Content and teaching methods
The teaching will consist in magistral courses illustrated by examples mainly from industrial applications and also in exercises conceived to develop the concepts presented in the courses and to understand a series of chemical phenomena occuring in the every day life.
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
Workfiles for each part available in printed version.
Reference book : P. Atkins and L. Jones, Chemistry : Molecules, matter and change published by Freeman and Company (New York)
Supervision by the teacher.