Course Title

General Chemistry

Course Number

10231101

Instructor Name

Mohammad Qneibi

Contact Information

[email protected]

Semester(s) and academic year(s)

First Semester 1

Compulsory / Elective

Compulsory

• The students will acquire knowledge of how to carry out scientific measurements using proper units and report the results with proper number of significant figures.
• Understanding various basic laws, like the law of conservation of mass, the law of definite proportions, the law of multiple proportions, and applying them appropriately.
• Realizing the concept of the mole, molecular formula, molecular mass, formula mass, and utilizing these concepts in stoichiometric calculations and balancing chemical reactions.
• Acquiring a working knowledge and application of the gas laws, and understanding the molecular explanation of the basic quantities in these laws.
• Obtaining basic thermochemical knowledge on energy transformations associated with chemical reactions.
• Understanding the atomic structure in light of quantum mechanics principles.
• Relating the periodicity of elements and their chemical properties like electronegativity, electron affinity, atomic size, and ionization potentials to the electronic configurations of the elements.
• Understanding the concepts of chemical bonding and molecular structure, and its relation to the shapes and properties of molecules.
• Analyzing the interconversions of states of matter, the properties of each state, and the type of intermolecular forces involved.

Required: 

• Principles of General Chemistry, 3^rd Ed., M. S, Silberberg by McGraw-Hill, 2010

Reference: 

• General Chemistry, 10^th Ed., R. Chang by McGraw-Hill, New York, 2007.
• General Chemistry, 9^th Ed., Principles and Modern Applications, Petrucci, Harwood, Herring and Madura, Pearson International Edition, 2008
• General Chemistry, 5^th Ed., J. E. Brady, F. A. Senese and N. D. Jespersen, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 2009.