This manuscript is the culmination of several years of teaching. Indeed, a
large number of exercises proposed come from archives of exam subjects
and series of directed studies.
The book is aimed at first-year students (L1) in Material Science and
Technical Science, but also at first-year students (L1) in Life Science.
It first addresses the first four chapters of General Chemistry:
• The constituents of the atom and radioactivity
• Electronic structure of the atom
• The periodic classification of elements
• Chemical bonding.
Then, some exam subjects with their corrections are introduced to ensure
better preparation for the student for the exam.
Each chapter is organized in two parts; the first includes a summary of the
course to instill in the student the basic concepts necessary to solve the
exercises, the second presents a very interesting variety of exercises with
detailed corrections.
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Foreword
Table of contents
Chapter 1: Constituents of the atom and radioactivity
1- The atom and its constituents
2- Nuclides
3- The mole
4- The molar mass
5- The atomic mass unit
6- Mass-energy equivalence
7- Core stability
8- Isotopes
9- Radioactivity
Corrected exercises
Chapter 2: Electronic structure of the atom
1- Matter-radiation interaction
2- Photoelectric effect
3- Matter-radiation interaction
4- Bohr model
5- Interpretation of the emission spectrum of the hydrogen atom
6- Hydrogenoid ion emission spectrum
7- Quantum model of the atom
8- Atomic orbitals
9- Polyelectronic atoms: Slater approximations
Corrected exercises
Chapter3: Periodic classification elements
1- Filling of atomic orbitals
2- Periodic classification of the elements
3- Main families of the periodic table
4- Evolution of some periodic properties
Corrected exercises
Chapter 4: Chemical bonding
1- Definition
2-Lewis structure
3- Different types of connection
4- Dipolar moment of a molecule
5- The hybridization of atomic orbitals (OAs)
6- Gillespie's rule or VSEPR method (Valence Schell Electronic
Pair Repultion)
7- Theory of molecular orbitals (MOs)
Corrected exercises
Corrected exam subjects
Appendices
Bibliography