Course Outline

Below is a rough lecture schedule, subject to the usual delays and changes.  Hyperlinks will take you to the course notes and supplemental material for that lecture topic, if available.  If a hyperlink is not shown, then those notes are not available, so don't ask....

Date

TOPIC

 READING
21-Jan

Chemical Principles
Orientation; Properties of Water; H-Bonding; Water analyses
Links: Water Structure; 
Animations:  H-Bonding water; water cluster1, cluster 2; Melting H2O clathrate

 A&P Ch. 1
26-Jan

 

Chemical Kinetics:
Basic Kinetics; Collision theory; Reaction mechanisms.
Catalysis and rate laws, Examples

 A&P Ch. 4

2-Feb

Chemical Equilibrium,
Energy and Work; Free energy, chemical potential, and Equilibrium
Non ideal behavior of ions and molecules in solution, Activity

 A&P Ch. 4
9-Feb

Mineral Solubility
Solubility and solubility product, Salting in, Common Ion Effect,

A&P Ch. 4

16-Feb

Acid-base chemistry,
Equilibrium calculations;
Multiprotic acids and ionization fractions; pC pH diagrams

 S&J Ch. 4.-4.5
23-Feb

Carbonic Acid Equilibria:
Alkalinity, and acidity, CO2 Equilibria
KH and gas exchange,

 A&P Ch. 5

S&J Ch. 4.8-4.13

2-Mar

Carbonate Minerals:
Ksp, dissolution, precipitation, Carbonate solubility

 A&P Ch. 5

 
9-Mar

Field Trip:  Bull Creek Carbonate Chemistry

  
11-Mar

MIDTERM #1

  
16-21 Mar

SPRING BREAK

  

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WEEK

TOPIC

 READING
23-Mar

 

Complexes, Metals and Coordination Chemistry

Hydrothermal waters, toxic metal mobility, PhreeqC speciation modeling

 A&P Ch. 7
30-Mar

Silicate Weathering
dissolution kinetics and solubility;
Silicate stability, phase diagrams and weathering.

A&P Ch. 8          

 
6-Apr

Silicate Weathering
Clays and Clay minerals

 A&P Ch. 8
13-Apr

Surface Chemistry

Mineral Surfaces, Ion Exchange, Sorption/Desorption,

A&P Ch. 6

20-Apr

Redox:
stoichiometry and half reactions, Nernst eq.;
pe, Eh, pe/pH diagrams,

 A&P Ch. 9

 
27-Apr Natural Water Redox
Geomicrobiology and Microbial Redox systems;
Acid mine drainage;  		 A&P Ch. 9
4-May

Contaminant Hydrochemistry
Contaminants and contaminant transport

 A&P Ch. 10

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