Course Overview

> UPON COMPLETION OF THIS COURSE, STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:

- Use the appropriate concepts to describe a chemical system
(chemical change, reaction, the extent of reaction, stoichiometry,
activity, reaction quotient)
- Relate the spontaneous change and the Gibbs energy of a reaction
- Determine and use equilibrium constants
- Determine the heat released or absorbed in a chemical change
- Work in the chemistry lab according to Good Laboratory Practice
- Carry out a complexometric titration and express the concentration
with its uncertainty)
- Control if a pH-electrode is functional or not

Learning Achievement

Competence

Course prerequisites

- Basics of chemistry: molecular formula, amount of substance and
molar mass, symbolizing chemical reactions, balancing chemical
equations.
- Basics of thermodynamics: temperature, energy of a system, energy
change through work or heat, enthalpy, entropy.
- Basics of metrology: mean value, standard experimental deviation,
uncertainty, repeatability.
- Basics of mechanics: kinetic energy.

Grading Philosophy

- 2 written exams with exercises (2 x 1 hour),
- Lab reports, 1 practical exam about the labs (2 hours.

Course schedule

> KEYWORDS OF THE COURSE COVER:

- Chemical change
- Gibbs energy of a system
- Activity

- Spontaneous change
- Reaction enthalpy
- Heat in a chemical change
- Chemical equilibrium.

- Reaction quotient
- Equilibrium constant
- Complex
- Formation constant of a complex
- Competing reactions
- Titrations
- Monitoring methods
-  Equivalence point

 > LAB WORK:

- Good Laboratory Practice: quality and safety
- Measurement of a reaction enthalpy

- Complexometric titrations. Uncertainty in a concentration
- Calibration of a glass electrode

Course type

- Seminars: 16 hours - Labs: 12 hours - Estimated self-study time: 30 hours

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Other information

Duration: 6 weeks

Language of instruction: English (Equilibria in aqueous solutions. Good Laboratory Practice), French and English (Thermodynamics)
Mode of delivery: Face-to-face teaching: with exercises intertwined with lab sessions

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