QUIM-2518 Fundamentals of Physical Chemistry
Addressed specifically to biological science students, this course presents an ample vision of concepts and applications of chemistry from the perspective of its physical fundamentals. Metabolic processes constitute the paradigm of applications of thermodynamics regarding energy conversions, which through coupled chemical reactions keep systems away from balance, becoming thus the support of life. It also studies quantitative models of transportation of matter and energy and of chemical kinetics. Maintaining a non-specialist level, in physical aspects of interaction phenomena between energy and matter, it also studies basic elements of these interactions, through quantum mechanics, statistics and spectroscopic methods.
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