APS110 — Introductory Chemistry from a Materials Perspective

Course centres around materials science. We used an in-house textbook written by Prof Scott Ramsay.

Concepts covered

• Material
• Stress and strain (curves)
• Young’s modulus
  • Interatomic force
• Deformation (elastic and plastic)
  • Material imperfection
  • Annealing
• Ceramic
  • Tempered glass
• Crystal structure (coordination number)
  • Face-centred cubic
  • Rock salt structure
  • Body-centred cubic
  • Hexagonal close-packed
  • Diamond cubic
• Atomic packing factor
• Interstitial site
• Polymers
  • Molecular weight
  • Polymer crystallinity
  • Intermolecular force
• Electromagnetic spectrum and light
• Particle (atoms)
  • Bohr model
  • Quantum mechanical model
  • Electronic configuration
  • Intramolecular force (ionic and covalent)
• Band theory
• Semiconductor (intrinsic and extrinsic)
  • Doping
• Thermodynamics
  • Thermodynamic entropy
  • Gibbs energy
• Phase change
  • Phase diagram
  • Lever rule

Resources

• Lecture videos from 2018
• Engineering Chemistry and Materials Science, by Scott Ramsay