Biochemistry 721.01, 721.02, 721.03 Physical Biochemistry

(3 cr) Autumn, Winter, and Spring

Introduction to physical chemistry with emphasis on biological applications; designed for students in the life sciences.

Prereq: Prereq or concur: 511 or 613, Math 153 (254 recommended), and Physics 113 or 133; or permission of instructor.

Text: Tinoco, Sauer, Wang and Puglisi, Physical Chemistry. Principles and Applications in Biological Sciences, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, New Jersey 2002
ISBN: 013095943X, ISBN-13: 9780130959430

Instructors: George (Peng) Wang, Justin Wu, Michael Chan, Mark Foster, Thomas Magliery

Outline:

721.01 (Autumn) Thermodynamics (Wang, Wu)

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The First Law: Energy Is Conserved
Chapter 3 The Second Law: The Entropy of the Universe Increases
Chapter 4 Free Energy and Chemical Equilibria
Chapter 5 Free Energy and Physical Equilibria

721.02 (Winter) Structure and spectroscopy (Chan)

Chapter 9 Molecular Structures and Interactions: Theory
Chapter 10 Molecular Structures and Interactions: Spectroscopy
Chapter 12 Macromolecular Structure and X-Ray Diffraction

721.03 (Spring) Transport, kinetics and random processes (Foster, Magliery)

Chapter 6 Molecular Motion and Transport Properties
Chapter 11 Molecular Distributions and Statistical Thermodynamics
Chapter 7 Kinetics: Rates of Chemical Reactions
Chapter 8 Enzyme Kinetics