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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

313024 (v.1) Engineering Chemistry 100

Area: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 4.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus (HB): Components of matter; States, properties and classification; Elements and their symbols; Atomic structure and the periodic table; Formulas of elements and compounds; Quantitative composition of substances; Molecular and ionic compounds, properties and nomenclature; Measurements, units and significant figures; The mole and Avogadros Number; Chemical equations and stoichiometry; Balancing chemical equations; Mass calculations from equations; Limiting reagents; Reaction between ions in aqueous solutions, concentrations, and volumetric analysis; Acids and bases; Reactions involving electron transfer; Balancing oxidation-reduction reactions; Energy and Chemical Change; Making and breaking of Chemical bonds; Exo- and endothermic reactions; Thermodynamics basics; Introduction to chemical bonding; Ionic and metallic bonding; The covalent bond; Electronegativity and oxidation number; Multiple bonds; Properties of gases; Kinetic theory and the gas laws; Calculations of gas volumes from equations; Rates of chemical reactions; Factors affecting reaction rates, reaction order; Theory of reaction rates, collision theory Equilibrium and factors that effect equilibrium (le Chatelier’s principle)
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 010500 Chemical Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2012 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External