Course: Chemistry for Biologists

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Course title Chemistry for Biologists
Course code UCH/271
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Frequency of the course In each academic year, in the summer semester.
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Klementová Šárka, doc. RNDr. CSc.
Course content
Content of lectures: 1. Introduction - structure of the atom, periodic table. 2. Nomenclature of inorganic chemistry, chemical equation. Fundamentals of organic chemistry nomenclature. 3. Chemical bonding, weak bonding interactions. 4. States - characteristics of individual states. 5. Solutions - solubility, solubility product, colligative properties. 6. Acid-base balances - dissociation, hydrolysis, buffers. 7. Kinetics of chemical reactions, practical application of first-order kinetics. 8. Thermodynamics - basic concepts and their meaning for chemical reactions. 9. Electrochemistry - galvanic and electrolytic cells, Nernst equation for cell potential. 10. Selected chemical methods I: spectrophotometry 11. Selected chemical methods II: chromatography 12. Selected chemical methods III: potentiometry, electrophoresis. Content of tutorials/seminar: The seminar further explores the topics discussed in the lectures.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course provides familiarization in the fundamentals of general and physical chemistry for biologically oriented students.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
To pass the course, students are required to actively participate in seminary discussions and score 50 % in combined written exam.
Recommended literature
  • Chemistry Virtual Textbooks, http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/virtualtextbook.html, únor 2010..
  • Mareček A. Honza J.: Chemie pro čtyřletá gymnázia, Nakl. Olomouc, 2004.
  • Zumdahl S. S., Zumdahl S A.: Chemistry. Brooks Cole, Belmont, USA, 2010.


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