3 Topics of interest to the consumer, with focus on making personal choices about the use of everyday chemicals. Topics include food additives and nutrition, cosmetics, drugs, pesticides, fertilizers, soaps, detergents, fabrics and plastics. For upper division credit, this course will require extensive writing exercises culminating in a major research paper on a consumer topic. Credit will not be given for both Chemistry 123B and 323B. Fall and winter terms. 3 Studies of the effects produced by drugs and of their administration, absorption, distribution and excretion.
Special emphasis is placed on the theories of the mechanism of action of drugs.
First summer session when offered. An introduction to thermodynamics and its application to chemical processes. The course explores why chemical reactions occur, the nature of chemical equilibrium, the factors determining the speed of reactions, and the role of temperature in reactions and equilibria. Includes elementary kinetic gas theory and the Boltzman distribution, energy, entropy, free energy and equilibrium, ideal solutions, colligative properties and reaction rate theory. 3 A study of the quantum theory of atoms and molecules.