20810117 - CHEMISTRY

The course aims to provide students with the tools necessary to frame in a logical and sequential way, not merely descriptive, the main chemical and physico-chemical phenomena related to the microscopic and macroscopic behavior of matter.
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Programme

Atom Structure: orbitals, poly-electron atoms, periodic table; covalent bond, delocalized bond.
Mass relationship in chemical reactions; redox and oxidation number.
Solids: metallic crystal, ionic crystal, molecular crystal, covalent crystal.
Gases: the ideal gas law, partial pressures.
Thermodynamics: nature and type of energy, the zero law of T.D., heat capacity, the first law of TD and Enthalphy, the second law of TD, entropy and free energy, equilibrium conditions.
Liquids: phase change, phase diagrams.
Chemical equilibrium: the equilibrium constant and the equilibrium law
Properties of liquid solutions: concentration units, the Raoult law and distillation, colligatives properties and freezing diagram, electrolytes.
Solutions of strong and weak electrolytes. Acids and bases, pH; Salt hydrolysis; buffer solutions.
Elettrochemistry

Core Documentation

Lecture notes
o Tro - Chemistry: A molecular approach 4th edition - EDISED
o Silvestroni, Rallo - Problemi di Chimica Generale - Ed. Masson
o Palmisano, Schiavello – Fondamenti di Chimica - EDISES

Type of evaluation

uring the emergency period due to covid-19, the evaluation will be temporarily carried out as indicated by the Rectoral Decree 703 of 5 May 2020. The method chosen is that provided for in articles 1 and 2. In particular, there evaluation is based on a written test followed, not on the same day, by an oral interview.