This course introduces students to the basic concepts in organic chemistry. It covers molecular composition of structures, purification of organic compounds,
structural formulae and isomerism as well as Nomenclature.
This course builds on MAT 102. It introduces students to the concept of Differentiation and Integration.
This course aims at helping students to develop requisite laboratory skills in general chemistry. Laboratory work includes basic techniques of qualitative and quantitative measurements such as gravimetric, colorimetric, thermometric and selected volumetric methods of analysis. Practical exercises undertaken in this course include calibration of analytical balance and volumetric glassware (burette and pipette), conductivity and pH measurements, determination of molecular properties and solubility products, qualitative analysis of mixtures of two or more metallic salts, and thermochemistry.
The main thrust of this course is to assist students to develop an appreciation for the relationship between chemistry and our environment. It is also aimed at providing students with a strong background to those theories and chemical principles that are particularly relevant to chemistry and fundamental understanding of science. This course is designed to provide students with a general overview of the concepts and principles underlying chemical reactions, stoichiometry, bonding, molecular shapes and structures, gas theories, and forces within liquids and solids that are fundamental basis of chemistry.
Content: The course seeks to introduce students to (i) the fundamentals of experiments and its uses, (ii) basic statistics including ANOVA, curvilinear regression and multiple regression, (iii) experimental designs such as RCBD, BIBD, Latin Square, factorial and fractional factorial designs, (iv) application of statistical models in analyzing experimental data, (v) RSM to optimize response of interest from an experiment, and (vi) the use of software such as GenStat and SPSS.
Objective:To expose students to how to design experiment, analyze and interpret experimental data.
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Content: The course introduces students to radiation, heat transfer in soils, view factors, turbulent transfers and wind relations, hydrologic cycle, energy balance and atmospheric diffusion. The course will focus on the micrometeorological and physiological processes controlling the exchange of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (CH4, N2O), water vapor, and energy between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. The course will also expose students to the impacts of human activities, such as land use change and land management, on energy, water, carbon, and nitrogen exchange between the land and atmosphere.
Objective:To equip students with the relationship between atmospheric conditions, such as temperature and humidity, and living organisms
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Content: The course provides the students with soil microbes, their role in soil-plant environment and mineral transformation. The course also exposes the students to the effects of soil microflora on soil fertility and plant nutrition, role of microbes in soil formation and nitrogen fixation, and mineralization-immobilization turnover.
Objective: To introduce students to soil microbes and their role in soil-plant environment
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Content: The course seeks to expose students to the concepts of soil and water conservation, physics of soil erosion, assessment of soil erosion, soil erosion control, soil erosion models, moisture conservation and water resources development.
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To provide students with the understanding of the utilization of soil and water without waste so as to make possible a high level of production that can be continued indefinitely
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Content: The course introduces students to the need to maintain the fertility and structure of the soil for high crop yield, It also exposes the students to methods of managing and conserving the soil for sustained crop production through ways of reducing soil erosion to control the loss of nutrients, methods of decreasing rates of sedimentation of water bodies, tillage and its effect on soil properties, tillage and soil structure management, traditional and modern tillage practices, physical aspects and machine-soil interaction, management of problem soils and management of soils under different cropping systems.
Objective: To expose students to sustained level of production from the land whilst maintaining soil loss below threshold level which permits the natural rate of soil formation to keep pace with the rate of soil erosion.
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Content: The course is designed to expose students to soil water flow equation, infiltration- vertical and horizontal infiltration and infiltrability equations, internal drainage and redistribution, surface and subsurface drainage, soil evaporation, soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, water balance, and groundwater flow and groundwater flow equations.
Objective: To introduce students to the physical interpretation of phenomena which govern hydrological events related to soil
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