Applied chemistry
BS BC BP
Mr Robert Lyall
6 points * Second semester * 4 hours of lectures, 4 hours of laboratory work per week * Gippsland/Distance * Prerequisites: GAS2271 or GAS2282
This subject covers a range of chemical topics related to final products such as polymers; air and water chemistry, waste management and monitoring, electrical methods of analysis, thermal analysis, metallurgy, industrial operations and process control. The subject is taught by lectures, practical work, and excursions, supplemented by films, slides and overhead transparencies etc.
Assessment
Theory component by subject tests and assignments 75% * Laboratory work: 20% * Excursion: 5% * Relevance of laboratory work to theoretical study: one-to-one correspondence, where equipment resources permit
Prescribed texts
Willard H and others Instrumental methods of analysis 7th edn, Wadsworth, 1988
Billmeyer F W Textbook of polymer science 2nd edn, Wiley, 1971
Recommended texts
Brimblecombe P Air-composition and chemistry CUP, 1986