C1640 Fundamentals of Chemistry

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2002
Extent and Intensity
3/0/0. 3 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Milan Alberti, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
RNDr. Milan Alberti, CSc.
Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science
Prerequisites
Knowledge of chemistry at high school standard
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
A basic course of chemistry for students of life and earth sciences. The lecture touches all common parts of chemistry with selected topics of contemporary concern. The development of basic laboratory skills is included.
Syllabus
  • 1. Chemistry and its role among other disciplines. Introduction in principal chemical techniques. Exploitation of technical gases, devices for heating and cooling, vacuum sources. Separation techniques (filtration, decantation, crystallization, distillation, sublimation, extraction, chromatography). Drying processes and agents.

    2. Mass, substance, physical and chemical properties of substances, pure substance, degrees of purity. Atom, molecule, ion, element, nuclide, isotope. Compound classes. Mixtures (homogenous and heterogenous). Fundamental chemical laws, atomic mass unit u, atomic and molecular masses, Avogadro constant. Relative atomic and molecular masses. Amount of substance, mole, molar mass.

    3. Atom structure, electromagnetic irradiation, energy quantization, photons. Emission atomic spectra. Particles and waves, mass dualism. Atomic orbitals, quantum numbers, levels of energy, electron configuration in atoms, valence shell electrons. Periodic system.

    4. Structure of molecules. Chemical bond and its parameters, bonding interactions, van der Waals forces and H-bonding. Bonding in metals.

    5. Molecular orbital theory.

    6. Properties of gases, ideal gas, real gas, mixtures of gases.

    7. Liquids, melts. Polar and nonpolar solvents. Solubility of substances, solvation. Influence of pressure on solubility of gas in liquids, influnce of temperature. Properties of solutions. Concentration units.

    8. Structure and properties of solids. Crystal lattice, principles of crystallography, X-ray diffraction.

    9. Chemical reactions. Catalysis, catalysts. Chemical equations, stoichiometry.

    10. Electrochemistry, electrode potential, electrolysis, corrosion of materials. Water and its dissociation. Acids and bases. Acidity and basicity of aqueous solutions. Strength of acids and bases.

    11. Chemistry of hydrogen and carbon.

    12. Chemistry of metal elements.

    13. Chemistry of nonmetal elements.

    14. Coordination compounds. Photochemical processes. Natural and synthetic macromolecules. Principles of macromolecular chemistry. Methods for substance structure study. Infrared and Raman spectroscopies. Nuclear magnetic spectroscopy. Mass spectroscopy.
Literature
  • EYSSELTOVÁ, Jitka. Anorganická chemie pro biology. Edited by Jaroslav Rosický. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1977, 128 s. info
  • Anorganická chemie pro biology. Edited by Jaroslav Rosický. 2. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1988, 187 s. info
  • KLIKORKA, Jiří, Bohumil HÁJEK and Jiří VOTINSKÝ. Obecná a anorganická chemie [Klikorka, 1989] a. 2. nezměn. vyd. Praha: SNTL - Nakladatelství technické literatury, 1989, 592 s. info
  • Názvosloví anorganické chemie : pravidla k roku 1985 b. Edited by Jiří Klikorka - Josef Hanzlík. 3. upr. a rozš. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1987, 183 s. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
přednáška ústní zkouška
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001.
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