COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÇEV 2408 ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY COMPULSORY 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Environmental Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR YETKIN DUMANOĞLU

Offered to

Environmental Engineering

Course Objective

Fundamentals of atmospheric chemistry

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Kloledge of atmosphere, its layes and relionships with pressure, temperature, and altitude
2   Konowledge on chemical and photochemical prosesses in the atmosphere
3   Knowlegde on cilmate change, greenhouse gases and acid rain
4   Air pollutants and their effects on human health

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1. Earth's atmosphere, its layers and relationship with pressure, temperature,and altitude
2 2. Gas Laws
3 3. Air Pollutants: gases and particulate pollutants
4 4. Air Pollutants: effects on vegatation and human
5 5. Pollutant cycles in the atmosphere
6 6. Chemical and photochemical processes in the atmosphere
7 7. Midterm exam 1
8 8. Chemical and photochemical processes in the atmosphere
9 9. Acid rain
10 10. Climate change and greenhouse gases
11 11. Organic pollutants
12 12. Meteorology and dispersion
13 13. Midterm exam 2
14 14. Presentation

Recomended or Required Reading

Müezzinoğlu, Aysen, 2003. Atmosfer Kimyası, Izmir, DEU.
Kaynaklar (Kitaplar ve on line veri tabanları)
1. Hobbs, P.V., 2000. Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry : a Companion Text to Basic
Physical Chemistry for the Atmospheric Sciences.
2. Seinfeld, J.H., Pandis S.N., 2006. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics-From Air
Pollution to Climate Change.
3. Finlayson-Pitts, B.J., and James N. Pitts, Jr., J.N., 2000. Chemistry of the Upper
and Lower Atmosphere Theory, Experiments, and Applications.
4. Warneck, P. 2000. Chemistry of the Natural Atmosphere.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Exams, presentations

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Çevre Mühendisliği Bölümü Tınaztepe
Yerleşkesi
35160 Buca/Izmir
Tel : 0 232 3017122
Faks : 0 232 4530922
E-mail: mustafa.odabasi@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Thursday 5-8

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Tutorials 2 3 6
Preparation for midterm exam 2 6 12
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Final 1 1,5 2
Midterm 2 1,5 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 66

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17PO.18PO.19PO.20
LO.14322
LO.2432
LO.3433223
LO.44332

CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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