Universal Medical & Business College

Department of Nurse
General Chemistry Course outline
Credit Hours: 3,
Course outline
1. Nature and Essence of Chemistry
1.1. Role of chemistry
1.2. Scientific methods of analysis
1.3. The domains of chemistry
1.4. State and classification of matter
1.4.1. State of matter
1.4.2. Classification of matter
1.5. Physical and chemical properties
1.6. Extensive and intensive property of matter
2. Properties of
2.1. Measures of concentration
2.2. Emphasizing the amounts of solute in solution
2.3. Emphasizing relative amounts of solute and solvent molecules
2.3.1 Solubility
2.3.2. Saturation and solubility
2.3.3. The effect of pressure on gas solubility
2.3.4. The effect of temperature on solubility
2.4. Colligative properties
2.4.1. Changes in vapor pressure, boiling points, and freezing points
2.4.2. Osmosis
2.5. Mixtures of liquids
2.5.1. Raoult’s law for mixtures of liquids
2.5.2. The distillation of mixtures of liquid
3. Measurements and Units
3.1. Si base units
3.2. Derived units
3.3 Molarity and other concentration units
3.3.1. Molarity
3.3.2. Dilution of solutions
3.3.3. Percentage of (w/w, w/v and v/v)
3.3.4. Parts per million (ppm) and part per billion (ppb)
3.4. Measurement uncertainty
3.5. Significant figures in measurement
3.5.1. Significant figures in calculations
3.6. Accuracy and precision
4. Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry
4.1. Ionic bonding
4.1.1. The formation of ionic compounds
4.1.2. Electronic structures of cations and anions
4.2. Covalent bonding
4.2.1. Formation of covalent bonds
4.2.2. Polarity of covalent bonds
4.3. Lewis structures
4.3.1. Writing Lewis structures with the octet rule
 4.3.2. Exceptions to the octet rule
4.4. Formal charges and resonances
4.4.1. Calculating formal charge
4.4.2. Predicting molecular structure using formal charge
4.4.3. Resonance
4.5. Strengths of ionic and covalent bonds
4.5.1. Ionic bond strength and lattice energy
4.5.2. Bond strength of covalent bond
4.6. Molecular structure and polarity
4.6.1. VSEPR theory
4.6.2. Molecular structure and dipole moment
5. Organic Chemistry
5.1. Functional groups
5.1.1. Hydrocarbons
5.1.2. Alkanes
5.1.3. Alkenes
5.1.4. Alkynes
5.2. Aromatic hydrocarbons
5.3. Alcohols and ether
5.3.1. Alcohols
5.3.2. Ethers
5.4. Aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and esters
5.4.1. Aldehydes and ketones
5.4.2. Carboxylic acids and esters
5.5. Amines and amides
5.5.1. Amines
5.5.2. Amides
Text book:
A course module for General Chemistry (Chem1012). (2019). Ministry of Science and higher education
(as prepared by: Yiheyis Bogale (PhD), Habdolo Esatu (MSc), and Tamene Beshaw (MSc).
References
1. Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula. Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences, co-published with Oxford
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education (as prepared by: Yiheyis Bogale (PhD), Habdolo Esatu (MSc), and Tamene Beshaw
(MSc).
8. David Harvey-1st ed. Modern analytical Chemistry, publisher: James M. Smith, year 2000.