| Instructor 1: | Professor Loren Williams |
| Office: | Room 1309 IBB |
| email: | loren.williams@chemistry.gatech.edu (best mode of communication) | Instructor 2: | Professor Joseph Sadighi |
| Office: | Room G022 MoSE |
| email: | joseph.sadighi@chemistry.gatech.edu (best mode of communication) |
Time and Place: 3:05 pm - 3:55 pm Tuesday, ES&T L1175
Office hours: 3:05 pm - 3:55 pm Thursdays, or by appointment
Email:
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CHEM 1801, firstname lastname, subject
Example: CHEM 1801, Marie Curie, request for radiation badge.
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Course Structure: Our goal is to introduce students to big concepts that might get lost in the thousands of details they have to learn in introductory chemistry and biology. This course will be informal. Students will be evaluated by class participation and the occasional quiz.
| - | Schedule | - | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week | Date | Instructor | Topic |
| 1 | 8/23 | Drs. Williams & Sadighi | Course Introduction |
| 2 | 8/30 | Dr. Williams | The Laws. Energy, Periodicity and Evolution |
| 3 | 9/6 | Dr. Williams | More Laws. Entropy, the Universe and Time |
| 4 | 9/13 | Dr. Sadighi | Industrial Energy [why does the world run on fossil fuels?] |
| 5 | 9/20 | Dr. Sadighi | Splitting Water |
| 6 | 9/27 | Dr. Williams | BIFs and the GOE: the Reductive Potential of the Earth |
| 7 | 10/4 | Dr. Sadighi | The Chemistry of Batteries |
| 8 | 10/11 | no class | |
| 9 | 10/18 | Dr. Williams | ATP: The Universal Energy Currency of Biology |
| 10 | 10/25 | Dr. Sadighi | H2: An Artificial Energy Currency |
| 11 | 11/1 | Dr. Williams | Fat & Carbohydrate |
| 12 | 11/8 | Dr. Williams | O2 and CO2: Why we breath |
| 13 | 11/15 | Dr. Sadighi | Solar Energy |
| 14 | 11/22 | Dr. Sadighi | Nitrogen Fixation in Nature and in Factories |
| 15 | 11/29 | Dr. Williams | Muscles: the Chemistry of Contraction |
| 16 | 12/6 | Drs. Williams & Sadighi | Wrap up |