Content of Learning Activity

Through the natural environment (spheres, cycles, mineral and energy resources) and entropic impact (greenhouse effect, ozone layer, acid rain), the lecture is devoted to the presentation of the basic concepts of physics, the reaction chemistry and water chemistry, thermodynamics and heat transfer, fluids mechanics.

Physics: Nature and propagation of light, reflection, refraction, color perception, radiation balance; description of the movements; Forces conservative / non-conservative, labor; power; potential energy - kinetic energy; principle of conservation of total energy.

Chemistry: Composition of the atmosphere and lithosphere, pH; redox reactions, radical reactions in the atmosphere, quantities characterizing water; equilibrium constant, solubility, precipitation; organic compounds.

Thermodynamics: first and second principles Clapeyron phase diagram; Specific heat;  Latent heat; enthalpies of formation / reaction, equation of state of ideal gases.

Thermal: heat flow; convection, conduction and radiation; heat exchanger.

Introduction to fluid mechanics, Bernoulli's principle.

Required Learning Resources/Tools

Not applicable

Recommended Reading

Copie de présentation - Sciences de l'environnement - Guy De Weireld, Nicolas Heymans, Arnaud Henrotin

Recommended Learning Resources/Tools

Not applicable

Other Recommended Reading

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Mode of delivery

• Mixed

Type of Teaching Activity/Activities

• Cours magistraux

Evaluations

The assessment methods of the Learning Activity (AA) are specified in the course description of the corresponding Educational Component (UE)