Structure of Matter Course (Chemistry 1) "1st Year License (LMD), ST core"
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2025-12-03
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Mohamed Boudiaf University -M'sila
Abstract
This Structure of Matter (Chemistry 1) course is for first-year students in the
Science and Technology (ST), and Material Sciences (SM) fields. It is in line with the
programme for the 1st year of the common core of the two areas.
It is intended to give a basic set of knowledge about the laws and concepts
necessary for understanding the structure of matter.
The teaching of this subject allows the student to acquire basic formalisms in
chemistry, especially within the subject describing the atom, the chemical elements
and the periodic table with energy quantification.
The adopted plan proposes a gradual approach to general chemistry. This book is
divided into six chapters.
- The first chapter of this course focuses on the fundamentals of general chemistry with
a reminder of the states of matter, atoms, molecules and solutions.
- Chapter II is devoted to the classical conception of the atom and will deal with
generalities about the structure of the atom and the various experiments that have
highlighted its constituents, namely protons, neutrons, the nucleus and electrons.
- Chapter III deals with radioactivity and nuclear reactions.
- Chapter IV concerns the quantification of energy in the atomic model (wave-corporeal
duality of light, hydrogen spectrum and classical models of the atom), and the study of
the wave model of the atom.
- Chapter V is reserved for the periodic classification of the elements, the evolution
and periodicity of the physico-chemical properties of the elements.
- The sixth VI and final chapter is reserved for chemical bonding: ionic bonding,
covalent bonding, Lewis structure, VSEPR method and hybridization of atomic
orbitals.