ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemical Physics
Areas: Chemical Physics
Center Faculty of Chemistry
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
Students who have taken the General Chemistry II course are expected to be able to:
• Know the different states of matter and the theories used to describe them.
• Understand the main aspects of thermodynamics and apply them to the study of chemical reactions and solutions.
• Understand the stoichiometry of chemical reactions and know the fundamentals of chemical kinetics.
• Solve problems related to the course content: stoichiometry, aggregation states of matter, solutions, chemical thermodynamics and chemical kinetics.
• 1. Measurement of Matter
Measurement of matter: SI (Metric) units. Uncertainties in scientific measurements. Significant figures.
• 2. Chemical Reactions
Chemical reactions and chemical equations. Chemical equations and stoichiometry. Chemical reactions in solution. Solution concentrations. Determining the limiting reactant. Other practical matters in reaction stoichiometry. The extent of reaction.
• 3. Gases
Properties of gases: gas pressure. The simple gas laws. Combining the gas laws: the ideal gas equation and the general gas equation. Applications of the ideal gas equation. Gases in chemical reactions. Mixtures of gases. Nonideal (real) gases.
• 4. Thermochemistry
Getting Started: Some Terminology. Heat. Heats of reaction and calorimetry. Work. The first law of thermodynamics. Heats of reaction: DU and DH. Indirect determination of DH: Hess's law. Standard enthalpies of formation.
• 5. Liquids and Solids
Some properties of liquids. Vaporization of liquids. Vapor pressure. Some properties of solids. Phase diagrams.
• 6. Solutions and their Physical Properties
Types of solutions: some terminology. Intermolecular forces and the solution process. Solution formation and equilibrium. Solubilities of gases. Vapor pressures of solutions. Osmotic pressure. Freezing-point depression and boiling-point elevation of nonelectrolyte solutions. Solutions of electrolytes.
• 7. Chemical Kinetics
Rate of a chemical reaction. Measuring reaction rates. Effect of concentration on reaction rates: the rate law. Zero-order reactions. First-order reactions. Second-order reactions. Theoretical models for chemical kinetics. The effect of temperature on reaction rates. Catalysis.
Laboratory experiments:
• Experiment 1. Density: Sugar Content in Commercial Beverages.
• Experiment 2. Thermochemistry: The Chemistry of Self-heating Beverages.
Core Textbook:
• R. H. Petrucci, F. G. Herring, J. D. Madura, C. Bissonnette, Química General, 11ª ed.; Pearson Educación, 2017. The ebook is available online through the BUSC catalogue.
Other books:
• A. Sánchez Coronilla, Resolución de Problemas de Química, Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2008. This book is highly recommended to students with difficulties in solving stoichiometry exercises.
• R. Chang, K. A. Goldsby, Química, 11ª ed.; McGraw-Hill Educación, 2015.
• P. Atkins y L. Jones, Principios de Química. Los caminos del descubrimiento, 5ª ed.; Editorial Médica Panamericana, 2012.
General and basic-subject skills:
CB1 – Students must demonstrate that they have acquired the knowledge required in a specific field of study, which is initially developed on the basis of their general secondary education, and that they have both drawn on information in textbooks and on the very latest information resources to attain the level of competence required of them.
CG1 – To be able to understand the most important concepts, methods and results of the different Chemistry branches and their historical development.
CG2 – To have the ability to get and to interpret data, information and results, to reach conclusions and report on scientific and technological problems that require chemical knowledge.
CG3 – The ability to apply the theoretical/practical knowledge and the analysis and abstraction capacities to raise problems and look for their solutions, both in academic and professional context.
Generic skills:
CT1 – To acquire the ability to analyse and summarise.
CT10 – To acquire critical reasoning.
CT16 – To develop the motivation to pursue quality work.
Subject-specific skills:
CE3 – To know the main features of the different states of matter and the theories involved in their description.
CE5 – To understand the thermodynamic principles and their applications in Chemistry.
CE13 – To be able to demonstrate knowledge of essential facts, concepts, principles, and theories relating to chemistry areas.
CE18 – To be able to conduct standard laboratory procedures involved in synthetic and analytical work, in relation to organic and inorganic systems.
CE20 – To be able to interpret data from observations and lab measurements according to both their significance and the theories they are based on.
CE22 – To understand the relation between theory and experiments.
Attendance to these classes is compulsory and non-attendance will have a negative effect on the summative assessment.
A) Large-group lectures: Teaching sessions conducted by a lecturer covering different aspects (theory, problems and/or examples, course guidelines…). The topics covered in the lectures will be based on the contents of a textbook recommended in the syllabus of the course.
B) Small-group interactive classes (Seminars): Classes in which problems and exercises are proposed and solved. In some of the seminars, assessment activities will be carried out. The marks obtained in these activities will be part of the student assessment.
C) Practicals: In these classes the student will learn the common skills needed in a chemistry lab. Out of class student work associated to this activity is less than required in other classes. A lab manual, including general information on lab work and detailed lab procedures, will be provided to the student. The student should read the full instructions for an experiment before coming to the laboratory. Following an introduction by the instructor, the student will work on experiments individually or as one of a pair of students. Students should keep a record of all the experiments on a laboratory notebook, showing clearly all measurements and observations, calculated data, comments and so on.
Absence should be properly justified. Accepted reasons for non-attendance will only include health problems, exams, and those stated in the university regulations. A student who misses a lab-session should contact the lecturer to re-schedule the practical. Non justified absences will result in a fail grade for the practicals.
D) Tutorials: Students attend two tutorials scheduled by the lecturer. This activity will involve solving integrated problems and discussion of questions or difficulties related to the course contents. These classes may include assessment activities.
1. Student assessment will have two components:
1.1. Summative assessment (40 %), consisting of:
• Seminars and tutorial work (30 %)
• Practicals (10 %)
1.2. Final Exam (60 %)
2. Assessment of seminars and tutorials will be based on the results of the different assessment activities carried out during the course. Non-attendance to any of these compulsory classes will lead to a zero mark in all the assessment activities carried out during that class.
3. Students must obtain a pass in the lab classes to achieve an overall pass grade. To obtain a pass grade, students must attend all lab sessions, carry out the experiments properly and write a laboratory notebook. The lab work will be graded through a final test.
4. The final exam will consist of a set of problems/questions to verify the student’s skills. Basic contents concern:
• Chemical equations and stoichiometry
• Concentration of solutions
• Determining the limiting reactant
• Ideal gas equation and general gas equation
• Gases in chemical reactions
• Nonideal (real) gases
5. The final mark will be the result of equation:
Final mark = max(0,4 × N1+ 0,6 × N2, N2)
where:
N1 = Summative assessment mark
N2 = Final exam mark
6. Students who repeat the course, but successfully completed the laboratory the year before, will be allowed to keep the lab grade for a maximum of two years. Therefore, they will not have to repeat the lab, but they will have to answer the questions related to the lab in the final exam. Attendance to seminars and tutorials is also required.
7. All other students repeating the course will have to follow the same attendance and assessment rules as students doing the course for the first time.
Competence assessment
seminars: CG1, CE3, CE5, CE13, CE22
practicals: CB1, CG2, CG3, CE18, CE20, CE22, CT1, CT10, CT16
tutorials: CG1, CE13, CE22, CT10
final exam: CB1, CG1, CE3, CE5, CE13, CE22
In cases of academic misconduct in work submitted for assessment, the guidelines established in the "Regulations for the assessment of student academic achievement and review of grades" will be followed.
In-class work time
• Large-group lectures (23 hours)
• Small-group interactive classes (Seminars) (11 hours)
• Practicals (16 hours)
• Tutorials (2 hours)
• Total in-class work time (52 hours)
Out-of-class study time
• Individual or in-group self-study (46 hours)
• Problem-solving or other assignments (30 hours)
• Preparation of oral presentations and written assignments, solving exercises, library work (10 hours)
• Lab preparation (12 hours)
• Total out-of-class work time (98 hours)
• Attendance to lectures is highly recommended.
• It is important to keep up to date in studying the course material.
• After reading a chapter in your textbook, it is useful to write a summary of the important points, identifying the basic equations that should be remembered and making sure that you understand them and know when they apply.
• Working problems is essential to learning the course contents. It may be useful to follow the following steps: (1) List all the relevant information that is given. (2) List the quantities to be calculated. (3) Identify the equations that should be used to solve the problem and apply them correctly.
• Proper preparation before you come to the lab is essential. First, you must review the topics covered in the lectures that are relevant to the particular experiment to be done in the lab. Second, you should undertake a careful reading of the provided lab instructions, trying to understand the aims of the experiment and the way it should be performed. Help on any aspect of the practical course is always available from the assigned lecturer.
A Virtual Classroom on the USC Virtual Campus will be available for this course.
The lecturer will attend to the students’ queries during the lecturer’s office hours posted at the beginning of the academic year.
Luis Garcia Rio
- Department
- Chemical Physics
- Area
- Chemical Physics
- Phone
- 881815712
- luis.garcia [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Maria Del Carmen Rios Rodriguez
- Department
- Chemical Physics
- Area
- Chemical Physics
- Phone
- 881814404
- carmen.rios [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Ana Maria Rios Rodriguez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemical Physics
- Area
- Chemical Physics
- Phone
- 881814210
- anamaria.rios [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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