SP Qtr. 3 cl. Prereq or concur: 511 or 613, 721.01, Math 153 (254 recommended), and Physics 113 or 133; or permission of instructor.
Instructor: Mark P. Foster; foster.281; 734 Riffe Bldg; 292-1377
TA: Yiren (Joy) Xu (xu.172) Riffe 732; 688-8146
Grading: Homework 10%, Midterms 60%, Final 30%.
Text: Tinoco, Sauer, Wang and Puglisi, Physical Chemistry. Principles and Applications in Biological Sciences, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, New Jersey 2002
Other texts (on reserve in BPL):
Cantor and Schimmel, Biophysical Chemistry, v. II-III, W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, 1980
Chang, Physical Chemistry for the Chemical and Biological Sciences, University Science Books, Sausalito, 2000
Molecular Motion and Transport Properties (Chapter 6)
Kinetics: Rates of Chemical Reactions (Chapter 7)
Enzyme Kinetics (Chapter 8)
Molecular Distributions and Statistical Thermodynamics (Chapter 11)
Links:
Course page: available on Carmen ( http://carmen.osu.edu )
Physical constants:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/
Gnuplot http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/
Reference card: http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/docs/gpcard.pdf
Documentation: http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/docs/gnuplot.html