Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences

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This one semester course will present the principles of physical chemistry and its their application in the life and forensic sciences. Areas that will be covered include enthalpy, entropy, free energy, chemical and physical equilibria, redox chemistry, kinetics, and spectroscopy. Illustration of how these principles are applied to fundamental problems in the life sciences, forensic sciences, and biochemistry will be made. Lecture, four hours. Prerequisites: CHEM 212 or CHEM 229, MATH 116, PHYS 202 or 212.