What is Introduction to Quantitative Chemistry?
In CHEM 132, we introduced a number of concepts and reactions, without any great explanations as to why these reactions might occur. CHEM 144 goes deeply into why reactions do (and often dont) occur, and to what extent a reaction will go. The course is grounded in accurate measurements, which leads to fairly intensive math, but there are reasons and context for all of the mathematical problems we will tackle – I call it the concept toolkit. The powerful new concepts of linear relationships, equilibrium, kinetics, entropy and interparticle interactions introduced in this course will be applied to a number of reactions, and we will see their influence on biology, physics, environmental studies and atmospheric science. For those of you planning on taking more chemistry, it is a start of a Chemists Intuition of being able to look at a molecule and start to predict its properties, or at least know where to start looking to get an idea of how it might react. For those of you ending your chem
