Classes

FCE 181 / FME 151 / FEB 105: General & Inorganic Chemistry

Semester: 
First
Offered: 
2016

Course Outline

1)     Atomic structure:

–       Electromagnetic radiation & Atomic structure

–       Bohr’s atomic model & wave concept model of atomic structure;

–       electron configuration & effective nuclear charge

–       Periodic table & atomic properties

2)     Chemical bonding:

SCH 406: Solid State Chemistry

Semester: 
First
Offered: 
2016

Course Outline:

I: Foundations

Review of Atomic Structure - Evolution of atomic theory: Thomson & Rutherford, Bohr model of hydrogen, Bohr-Sommerfeld model and multi-electron atoms, atomic spectra and Schrödinger equation. Electron orbitals: Aufbau principle, Pauli Exclusion Principle, and Hund's rules.

Chemical Bonding - Primary bonding: ionic, covalent, metallic. Secondary bonding: dipole-dipole, induced dipole-induced dipole, London dispersion/van der Waals & hydrogen bonding. Shapes of molecules: hybridization, LCAO-MO, VSEPR theory.

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