Hacking The Periodic Table 1 - Chemistry Of The Elements

A Course about the Chemistry of Main Group 1 to 4, Reactions, Concepts and Applications for Practical Knowledge

What you'll learn
You will learn how to use concepts to understand applications
Understand how you can use your chemistry knowledge to think outside the box
Know how our description of atoms evolved from an atomic pudding to quantum mechanical models in just 29 years
Understand how electrons like to arranged themselves around the atomic nucleus
Know which state of matter is the rarest
Know which elements like to take on or give up an electron to be more stable
Learn why hydrogen is an important educt in chemical industry
Understand why hydrogen can “hide” in metals and how this property can be used
Study when asymmetry can be helpful to (dis)solve things
Learn what industry can make with you table salt
Understand how lithium can help you to store energy
Know which industry is responsible for 8% of the global CO2 emissions and why
Learn why people measure the hardness of water
Grasp how a very reactive element can be used for cooking
Learn why silicon likes to form networks and is very creative with it
Requirements
A desire to think outside the box and towards material application
Basic nomenclature of chemistry (helpful but not required)
Description
You are a professional, a student, a teacher or just interested in general trends, reactions and applications of chemistry? Then this is the right course for you!In this course, we will cover various concepts, reactions and applications of chemistry which you might meet in your everyday life or use unknowingly come into contact with. Chemistry infuses our lives on so many levels that it is an essential but demanding task to understand it in depth.The concept of this course is not to only give textbook explanations to things, explain models. Instead it aims at using your knowledge to understand the bigger picture and apply the knowledge you gained.To provide an appealing curriculum we combined the three big pillars of chemistry which is scientific research, application in industry and you as a student. By this we want to give scientific explanations to industrially relevant topics and show you how often you might meet certain elements without realizing it.This curriculum of this course will cover atomic concepts as a foundation to gain an understanding for the reactivity and behavior of elements as well as trends of the periodic table. Subsequently, we will have an in-depth look at the elements of main group 1 to 4 and their most interesting applications.In this first part of the course we will cover the basics of the atom concept and cover the main group elements of group 1 to 4.

Overview

Section 1: Welcome and Overview

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Introduction

Lecture 2 The Atom Model

Lecture 3 Orbitals and Energy Schemes I

Lecture 4 Orbitals and Energy Schemes II

Lecture 5 Orbitals and Energy Schemes III

Section 3: Trends of the Periodic Table

Lecture 6 Trends of the Periodic Table I

Lecture 7 Trends of the Periodic Table II

Section 4: Main Group I: Alkali metals

Lecture 8 Hydrogen I - Properties and Production

Lecture 9 Hydrogen II - Economic Relevance and Reactions

Lecture 10 Focus: Fuel Cell - Century-old Reactions for Energy Storage I

Lecture 11 Hydrogen III - Isotopes

Lecture 12 Group 1 - Properties and Reactions

Lecture 13 Group 1 - Production and the Chemical Cycle

Lecture 14 Focus Lecture: Lithium - Application in Batteries

Section 5: Main Group II: Earth-alkali metals

Lecture 15 Group 2 - Properties, Reactions and Synthesis

Lecture 16 Focus Lecture: Cement, Gypsum & Hardness of Water

Section 6: Main Group III: Boron group

Lecture 17 Group 3 - Properties and Reactivity

Lecture 18 Boron - Reactions and Synthesis

Lecture 19 Aluminium I - Properties and Chemistry

Lecture 20 Aluminium II - Technical Production

Section 7: Main Group IV: Carbon group

Lecture 21 Group 4 - Properties and Occurrence

Lecture 22 Carbon I - Modifications and Reactions

Lecture 23 Carbon II - The Interplay between the Oxides

Lecture 24 Silicon I - Synthesis and Properties

Lecture 25 Silicon II - Reactions and Chemistry

Lecture 26 Silicon III - One Element in many Forms (Silicates)

Section 8: Summary

Lecture 27 Summary

Anyone who is interested in basic concepts of chemistry,Anyone who wants to gain a broader understanding of trends and applied chemistry,Anyone who aims to review material chemistry knowledge of the first university years