Course Overview
This second course will build on earlier material and will include solutions, acids and bases, salt and buffer solutions, and solubility of compounds. Some applications of precipitation reactions to water and wastewater treatment will also be examined.
Prerequisite(s)
- 50% in EENG 7710
Credits
1.0
- Retired
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Distinguish between solutes, solvents and solutions.
- Describe the types of intermolecular attractive forces present when ionic and molecular compounds are dissolved in water.
- Solve problems relating concentrations of solutions (in molarity, percentage, parts per million, parts per billion) and amounts of solute.
- Describe the physical and chemical properties characteristic of acids and bases.
- Differentiate between strong acids, strong bases, weak acids, weak bases, salt solutions and buffer solutions.
- Calculate the hydrogen and hydroxide ion concentrations (and vice versa), given the pH or pOH of a solution.
- Calculate the pH of aqueous acid and base solutions.
- Classify aqueous solutions of salts as being acidic, neutral or basic.
- Carry out calculations involving acid-base titrations.
- Describe the mechanism by which buffer solutions operate in controlling pH.
- Distinguish between unsaturated and saturated solutions.
- Calculate the solubility of slightly soluble salts from their solubility-product constants and the Ksp from solubility data.
- Predict whether a precipitate forms when two solutions containing ionic compounds are mixed together.
- Describe the sources of alkalinity and water hardness.
- Describe the precipitation reactions that are employed in the removal of hardness ions, phosphate ions and iron ions from water.
Effective as of Fall 2003
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