Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Lucia Maini
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: CHIM/03
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physics (cod. 8007)

Course contents

Basic principles of the chemistry of the elements. Chemical properties and reactivity of substances. Introduction to the Periodic Table. Chemical reactions and stoichiometry. Chemical bond: ionic bond, covalent bond, metallic bond. Intermolecular forces. Chemical thermodynamics: first law of thermodinamics, heat of reaction and enthalpy variation, thermochemistry, entropy and second law of thermodinamics, free energy. Phases equilibria. Liquids and solutions: concentration,colligative properties. Chemical equilibrium: homogeneous equilibria, etherogeneous equilibria. Solubility and solubility product. Electrochemistry: chemical cells, Nerst equation, Table of standard-state reduction potentials, electrolysis. 

Readings/Bibliography

Autore AM Manotti Manfredi, A. Tiripicchio
Titolo Fondamenti di Chimica
Edizione Casa Editrice Ambrosiana

Autore S. S. Zumdhal
Titolo Chimica
Edizione Casa Editrice Zanichelli

Autore Petrucci Herring Madura Bissonnette
Titolo Chimica generale
Edizione  Piccin


Teaching methods

Frontal lessons and exercises

Teaching tools

Powerpoint and blackboard

Office hours

See the website of Lucia Maini