Course detail
Chemistry
FSI-WCM Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester
The course is focused on basic knowledge of chemistry necessary for area of material engineering. Main focus is on understanding of basic interactions on atomic level and related basic material; properties, connections among structures, bonding and thermodynamics are demonstrated. Lectures give an overview of elementary principles in material science (especially a material selection) and related technical applications.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
6
Supervisor
Entry knowledge
Elementary knowledge of high school chemistry is expected.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Final exam evaluates theoretical knowledge and its implications for problems in material science, which are related to chemistry. Exam is partially written and oral; student will randomly select questions and the written part is before the final oral part.
Credits will be awarded only if students attends all group trainings and after completion of assigned tasks. In justified cases the compensatory conditions may be given if a student did not enter a group training.
Aims
The aim of the course is to explain similarities and differences, among basic group of materials such as metals, glass, ceramics, and polymers. Theoretical lectures will be supported by short group training, which should help students to answer homework questions. Furthermore, the training will give students good practice in chemistry.
Students will be able to apply gain knowledge during continuing Master program, which is focused on material engineering, as well as during solving of specific industrial problems related to chemistry. The course if focused on terminology and basic relations in chemistry.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-ZSI-P: Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's
specialization MTI: Materials Engineering, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, optionally
Syllabus
Lectures:
1. Structure of atoms
2. Periodic table of elements, terminology
3. Chemical bonding
4. Molecular structures
5. State of mass
6. Chemical reactions
7. Equilibrium and kinetics in chemistry
8. Amorphous materials
9. Crystalline materials
10. Organic materials
11. Solutions
12. Analysis of a common chemical reaction of materials
Laboratory exercise
13 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
Group exercise:
a) Answers of questions given students at the end of the lectures.
b) Training in nomenclature of chemistry, chemical equations, and calculation of concentrations.