UNIVERSITY OF NAMIBIA CENTRE FOR EXTERNAL STUDIES ...

Module description:The content of the module will cover the following: Electric interaction; Static electric charge and Gauss’s Law; Electric potential;Capacitors; Electric current; Ohms law; DC circuits; Magnetic field and flux, Lorentz force; Ampere’s law; Electromagnetic induction andac circuits.Inorganic Chemistry for Educators ISCHE3742NQF Level: 7 Credits: 8 Module Assessment: CA 50% Examination 50% - 1 x 2 hour paperPrerequisite: CHM3411 Chemistry IA, CHM3512 Chemistry IBModule description:This module covers the chemistry of transition metals. This means the student would have been equipped with adequate backgroundfrom the chemistry of main group elements. With such a background the student will be in a position to follow the chemistry of transitionmetals. The following topics will be covered:The brief introduction to the chemistry of alkali and alkaline earth elements (groups 1 and 2); reactivity with hydrogen, oxygen, halogens,water, and liquid ammonia; Classification of oxides, and their reaction with water; P-block elements (groups 13 to 18): Reactivity withoxygen and halogens; The hydrides of P block elements; Hydrolysis and ammonolysis of P-block halides. Delocalized multiple bonding.S-block elements. In-depth studies of chemical bonding (valence bond theory (VBT), shapes of molecules and hybridization, molecularorbital theory (MOT) in diatomic and polyatomic molecules) and Bonding-Application of VBT; CFT; LFT, MOT; Introduction to transitionmetal chemistry (d-block elements): transition metal complexes (constitution, nomenclature, isomerism, classification of ligands);Reaction Mechanisms and rate of reactions; Ligand substitution; Dissociative and Associative mechanisms; redox and photochemicalreactions in transitional complexes; Molecular symmetry: symmetry elements; plane of symmetry; proper and improper axes; principalaxis; point of inversion ; classification of molecules into point groups. Introduction to the organometallic chemistry of s-block elements(magnesium and lithium).Inorganic Chemistry for Educators IISCHE3862NQF Level: 8 Credits: 8 Module Assessment: CA 50% Examination 50% - 1 x 2 hour paperPrerequisite: SCHE3742 Inorganic Chemistry for Educators IModule description:This module deals with the organometallic chemistry which is a hybrid discipline comprising the knowledge of inorganic and organicchemistry. The following topics will be covered:Content: Organometallic chemistry: organometallic compounds of d block elements with emphasis to iron complexes; Physical andchemical properties of organometallic compounds; Reactivity of coordinated cyclopentadienyl and cyclobutane ligands. Transition metalcarbonyls: metal clusters, bonding and synthesis; Catalysis involving organometallic compounds. Chemistry of f-block elements;Nuclear Chemistry.Modern Physics for EducatorsSPHE3751NQF Level: 7 Credits: 16 Module Assessment: CA 50% Examination 50% - 1 x 3 hour paperPrerequisite: SPHY3511 Physics for Physical sciences I, SPHY3512: Physics for Physical sciences II,SPHY3611: Classical Mechanics, SMAT3511: Basic Mathematics and SMAT3512: Pre-calculus.Module description:Blackbody radiation; Planck’s quantization; Photoelectric effect; Compton effect; atomic structure; spectral lines of Hydrogen; the nuclearatom; Bohr’s theory; correspondence principle; Franck-Hertz experiment; x-rays; de Broglie wavelengths; particle-wave duality;Heisenberg uncertainty relation; Special relativity; departure from Newtonian dynamics; Einstein and Lorentz transformations; Lorentzcontraction and time dilation; wave mechanics, Schrödinger equation for a free particle; the potential Step. particles in a box ; particle ina finite potential well; Electrons in metals, Nearly free electron model, energy bands; Semiconductors, band gaps, intrinsic carrierconcentration, impurity conductivity, donor and acceptor states.Nuclear PhysicsSPHY3802NQF Level: 8 Credits: 8 Module Assessment: CA 50% Examination 50% - 1 x 2 hour paperPrerequisite: SPHY3732: Modern Physics IIModule description:Nuclear Structure, nuclear radius, nomenclature; Decay of the nucleus, alpha decay, beta decay, gamma decay, spontaneous fission;Radioactivity, radioactive growth and decay, transient equilibrium, secular equilibrium, radioactive decay series, carbon dating; Chart ofNuclides; Nuclear reactions, elastic scattering, inelastic scattering, reaction of transmutation, radiative capture, photodisintegration,induced fission; Interaction of radiation with matter, photoelectric effect, pair production, Compton scattering, calculation of energytransferred in Compton scattering using relativistic equations; The liquid drop model, variation of binding energy per nucleon with massnumber; Weizsacher’s semi-empirical mass formula; The shell model; Nuclear energy, nuclear reactors, introductory reactor physics,nuclear power plants; Nuclear instrumentation, radiation detectors, accelerators; Two body systems and nuclear force: properties of177