Lecture Programme

1. Classification and characteristics, and safe procedures in handling dangerous chemical substances, warning pictograms and symbols, symbols of dangers and safe handling, characteristics cards.
2.  General characteristics of selected groups of organic and inorganic compounds, systematic names, molecular / structural / graphic formulas, ionic and molecular compounds.
3.  Atomic structure: elementary particles of matter, quantum numbers, electronic structure and electron shell structure of selected elements, general characteristics of elements of s, p, d, f blocks.
4.  Structure of a molecule: electronegativity scale, chemical bonds, hybridization of atomic orbitals and spatial structures of selected molecules of chemical compounds, polarity of molecules.
5. Periodic system of elements used for the prediction of reactivity and properties of chemical substances: periodicity of physical properties of elements – atomic radius, ionic radius, ionization energy, trends of electropositivity, electronegativity and electron affinity, general characteristics of selected element groups versus the periodic system.
6. Real solutions and colloid systems, molar heat of solution, electrolytic solutions, dissociation of acids, bases and salts, degree of dissociation, dissociation constant, theories of acids and bases, ionic product of water, pH scale and indicators, pH buffers, solubility product, reaction of salt ions with water.
7. Classification of chemical reactions, reactions of: neutralization and hydrolysis, precipitation, oxidation and reduction; equilibrium constant, principle of mobile equilibrium (Le Chatelier-Braun’s principle) and the influence of external factors on the chemical equilibrium.
8. Catalysis and catalysts: classification, activation energy, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, mechanism of catalytic action, chain and photochemical reactions.
9. Concepts of electrochemistry: metal electrode potential, standard (normal) potential, electrochemical series of metals and its role in shipbuilding, electrochemical cells, electrochemical corrosion and hull protection against corrosion.

References

1. J. E. McMurry, R. C. Fay, J. K. Robinson, Chemistry, 7th edition, global edition, publisher: Pearson, 2016.
2. A. Blackman, S. Bottle, S. Schmid, M. Mocerino, U. Wille, Chemistry, 2nd edition, publisher: John Wiley&Sons, 2012.
3. G. Curran, Chemistry, publisher: The Career Press, 2011.
4. J. T. Moore, Chemistry for Dummies, publisher: Wiley Publishing, 2015.
5. D. Kealy, P.J. Haines, Analytical Chemistry, publisher: BIOS Scientific Publishers Limited, 2002.
6. Sparkcharts Chemistry, 2002 Spark Publishing, A Division of Barnes & Noble, Canada 2014.
7. M. D. Jackson, Chemistry, 2015 BarCharts, Inc. (Quickstudy.com).
8. M. Charmas, English for Students of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press, Lublin 2012.