Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE / CM 530 - ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (MASTER'S DEGREE)

Code: CM 530 Course Title: PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 2nd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (MASTER'S DEGREE)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer YASİN POLAT (yasinpolat@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
To ensure that students receive direct information from each faculty member about specific research topics in the field of physicochemistry and to have information about some of the current subjects they can do research after graduation. To provide students with information about current research topics in physicochemistry and to have a vision about the subjects they can do research after graduation.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 PO-1 PO-1 Have an advanced level of knowledge about the recent and best practices in Environmental Engineering, deepen and expand their knowledge on the expert level, conduct and assess the analyses by employing statistical methods
LO-2 PO-2 PO-2 Plan experiments and carry out original researches in the field by making use of the theoretical and practical knowledge at the expert level that they have obtained in their field
LO-3 PO-5 PO-5 Evaluate the knowledge and skills in a critical way in every activity regarding the field, thereby guiding their learning
LO-4 PO-8 PO-8 Transfer in a systematical way the latest developments in Environmental Engineering and their field of study reinforcing with qualitative and quantitative data to the groups either concerned with the field or not by verbal, visual and written means
LO-5 PO-9 PO-9 Monitor and supervise the social, scientific, cultural and ethical values in the process of collecting, interpreting, implementing and publishing the data related to the field of Environmental Engineering and teach those values
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Within the scope of Physical Chemistry; Basic Concepts, Kinetic Gas Theory, Thermodynamic Laws, States of Matter. To teach information about Phase-Balances, Surface Thermodynamics and Chemical Kinetics
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Gases. Liquefaction and critical events Description Method
2 Liquids, vapor pressure, surface tension, viscosity Description Method
3 Solid state, Classification of solids, Crystal energy, Chemical bonds Description Method
4 Investigation of Molecular Structure; Molar refraction, Molar polarization of molecules, dipole moment and molecular structure, magnetic properties of bodies Description Method
5 Molecular spectra, electronic spectra, absorption of light in liquids and solutions, spectroscopic methods Description Method
6 Azeotropes, solubility of gases in liquids, solubility of solids in liquids Description Method
7 Numerical properties of solutions: Vapor pressure decrease, boiling point rise, freezing point decrease, osmatic pressure Description Method
8 mid-term exam
9 Definition of Chemical Equilibrium, Equilibrium constant-Law of mass effects, Equilibrium and equilibrium constant in Heterogen and homogeneous reactions, Relationship between Kp and Kc, Le Chatelier principle- Factors affecting balance, Variation of equilibrium with temperature Description Method
10 Phase rule; definitions, Gibbs phase rule, one component systems: water, sulfur and carbon dioxide systems, two and three component systems Description Method
11 Chemical Kinetic; Reaction rate, molecularity and order definition and measurement, first order reactions and relations Description Method
12 Definition and correlations of second and third order reactions, pseudo-molecular reactions, Reversible and opposite reactions, sequential reactions, parallel reactions Description Method
13 Temperature effect on reaction rate, Activation energy, Collision theory of bimolecular reactions, Collision theory of monomolecular reactions Description Method
14 Absolute reaction rate theory, Chain reactions, Primary salt effect in ionic reactions. Description Method
15 Definition of adsorption, Adsorption types, Adsorption isotherms Description Method
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Fizikokimya – R. G. Mortimer, O. Şanlı, H. İ. Ünal, Palme Yayınları, 2004, Ankara
2 Jiang Lei; Lin Feng, 2010, Bioinspired Intelligent Nanostructured Interfacial Materials, World Scientific Publishing Company, James P. Allen, Biophysical Chemistry, Wiley-Blackwell)
3 Physical Chemistry - P.W Atkins, Oxford University Press 1998
Required Course instruments and materials
Projection and computer

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 3 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 2 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 3 14 42
       b) Search in internet/Library 3 14 42
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 3 14 42
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 7 1 7
mid-term exam 2 1 2
Own study for final exam 0
final exam 2 1 2
0
0
Total work load; 179