Online Courses Handbook 2003

303095 (v.1) WASM Chemistry 151

Area:	WASM Minerals Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy Teaching Area
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 0.5 Hours Weekly
Practical:	1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly
Atomic structure and the periodic table. Chemical bonding - ionic, metallic and covalent bonding - polarity and intermolecular forces. Chemical equilibria - ionic, acid-base and complex equilibria. Acids and bases - polyprotic acids and titration curves. Covalency and molecular stereochemistry, Lewis structures, hybridisation and resonance. Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) theory. Oxidation and reduction, electrochemical cells, reduction potentials, the Nernst equation. Introductory organic chemistry - hydrocarbons, functional groups, isomerism, organic reactions and polymers.