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 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| School of Management (administered by the Learning Partnerships Office) |
| Credits:
| 12 |
| Level:
| Foundation (FHEQ level 3) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 at Chichester College Semester 2 at City of Bath College Semester 2 at Wiltshire College |
| Assessment:
| CW 20%, EX 80% |
| Supplementary Assessment: |
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
| Before taking this unit you must take LP00031 |
| Description:
| Aims: This unit aims to bring students up to a Year 1 entry standard of knowledge and skills in Chemistry. The unit will draw upon aspects of year 2 of the A level syllabus and will achieve an equivalent depth and standard in these aspects. The unit will offer opportunities for knowledge acquisition, theoretical problem-solving and the development of practical laboratory skills. Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of the unit, students will be able to: * Recognise, recall and show understanding of chemical concepts and facts. * Select, organise and communicate relevant information in a variety of formats, including ICT. * Analyse and evaluate chemical knowledge and processes, both theoretical and practical. * Apply chemical knowledge and processes to unfamiliar situations including those related to technological, environmental and medical issues. * Assess the validity, reliability and credibility of chemical information. * Demonstrate and describe ethical, safe and skilful practical techniques and processes, selecting appropriate qualitative and quantitative methods * Make record and communicate reliable and valid observations and measurements with appropriate precision and accuracy. * Critically analyse and evaluate the methodology of experiments and the data generated by them. Skills: Key transferable skills, laboratory skills and theoretical problem solving. T = taught, F = facilitated, A = assessed Candidates will be able to: * Recognise, recall and demonstrate understanding of specific chemical facts, terminology, principles, concepts and practical techniques.(A) * Select, organise and present relevant information clearly and logically, using appropriate specialist vocabulary.(T/F/A) * Interpret data presented in a variety of formats, such as continuous prose, equations, tables, diagrams and graphs.(T/A) * Apply chemical principles and concepts in problem solving in unfamiliar contexts, bringing together aspects from different curriculum areas in an integrated manner. (T/F/A) * Plan and implement experiments to investigate chemical concepts, making the most effective use of the facilities, equipment and reagents available.(T/A) * Use standard laboratory equipment confidently.(F) * Carry out experiments with due attention to standard health and safety requirements.(F) * Make observations and measurements during the course of experiments to the appropriate level of accuracy and precision.(T/A) * Record observations and measurements methodically. (F/A) * Analyse and evaluate data arising from experiments, communicating the results clearly and logically using the appropriate specialist vocabulary.(F/A) * Assess the significance of errors of procedure and measurement, quantifying the latter, and evaluating how errors can be minimised or eliminated. (F/A) * Critically assess the validity of chemical information, experiments, inferences and statements.(A) * Use IT resources to plan, implement, analyse and evaluate tasks.(F/A) Content: Physical chemistry * Definitions of exothermic and endothermic reactions, to include energy profiles. * Definitions of standard conditions, enthalpy of atomisation, neutralisation, combustion and formations. * Definition of Hess' Law and its application to theoretical and experimental problems. * Principles of calorimetry and hos it can be used to calculate enthalpy changes from experimental data. * Definition of bond energy and bond dissociation energy and how they can be used to calculate estimated enthalpy changes. * Born Haber Cycles, their construction and use to determine lattice energies. * How lattice energies can be used to make deductions about the nature of bonding in an ionic compound. * Properties of reversible reactions and the nature of an equilibrium. * Le Chatelier's Principle and its application to deduce and explain the consequences of changing temperature, pressure and concentrations on a reaction. * Writing expressions for Kc and Kp and theiir use in calculations. * Principles of acid/base equilibria, to include the nature of strong and weak acids and bases. * Writing expressions for Ka, Kb and Kw. Definition of pH. * Calculations involving pH, hydrogen ion concentration. , Ka, Kw, pKa, pKw. * The nature of buffers and how they can be set up, to include calculations on the pH of buffers. * The different types of acid/base titrations and the choice of appropriate indicators. * Factors that affect the rates of chemical reactions, to include a consideration of collision theory. * Methods of measuring the rates of reactions. * The concept of order of a reaction, in include only 0, 1st and 2nd orders of reactants. * Using experimental data to derive rate expressions and hence the mechanism of a reaction. * Writing rate equations from experimental data. * Homogenous and heterogenous catalysis and their effect on activation energy. * The Boltzman Distribution, to include interpreting and sketching graphs to show and explain the effect of changes in temperature and the presence of catalysts on the rate of reaction. * The concepts of free energy and entropy and how they can be applied in calculations to determine the feasibility of reactions. Organic * Structure and bonding of benzene. * Electrophilic substitution reactions of benzne, to include nitration, halogenation, alkylation and acylation with a full description of the reaction mechanisms. * Comparison of the reactions of benzene and phenol. * Typical reactions of carbonyl compounds, to include 24DNPH and nucleophilic addition reactions with hydrogen cyanide, with a full description of the reaction mechanism. * The oxidation reactions of aldhydes, and how they can be used to distinguish between aldehydes and ketons, to include acidified dichromate, Fehling's and Tollen's reaqents. * Principles of optical isomerism, to include writing 3D structures of enantiomers. * Consequences of optical isomerism for organic synthesis and the pharmaceutical industry. * Condensation polymerisation to include terylene and nylon. * Further addition polymerisation, to include syntactic, isotactic and atactic polymers. * Reactions of amines as bases, to include relative basicity of ammonia, phenylamine and ethylamine. * Reactions of primary aromatic amines with nitrous acid, followed by coupling to produce azo dyes. * Principles of Mass spectroscopy as applied to organic compounds, including determination of RMM and the M+1 ion. * Principles of NMR, to include shcemical shifts, peak ratios, splitting patterns and how they can be used to determine the exact structure of an organic compound. Inorganic * Physical and chemical properties of transition metals, to include variable oxidation states, colour, formation of complex ions and catalytic properties. * Ligand, to include monodentate and bidentate, ligand substitution reactions, the shape of complexes and co-ordination numbers. * Vanadium, chromium, cobalt, iron and copper to be used to illustrate the characteristic pererties of transition metals. * The concept of the standard electrochemical potential, to include the hydrogen electrode. * Writing the formulae of half cells, cell diagrams and describing the redox reactions taking place. * Using standard electrochemical potentials to predict the feasibility of reactions. |
| Programme availability: |
LP00032 is Optional on the following programmes:Programmes administered by the Learning Partnerships Office
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