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Chemical periodicity.
Weak bonding interactions: dipole, hydrogen and Van der
Waal's.
Stoichiometry: mass-mass; mass-volume; colume-volume and
redox calculations.
Thermochemistry: rates of chemical reactions.
Equilibria: acidlbase, redox solubility, complexation,
speciation.
Practical work: Chemical reactions, titrations, pH
measurement. Equilibria.
SC3400 bod Processing and Analysis
8.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
A second year subject of the degree course in environmental
health.
Subject description
Food processing: introduction to processes used in the food
industries for the preparation and processing of foods.
Problems or potential problems associated with those
processes that have implications for community health.
Food chemistry: techniques used in the determination of the
amounts of carbohydrate, protein and lipid in foods.
Determination of the amounts of micronutrients in foods.
Methods used for determining the water content of foods.
Determination of the calorie or joule contents of foods.
Other manual and instrumental techniques used in food
analysis (e.g. determination of sulphur dioxide). Chemical
additiws to food will be considered under the following
headings: chemical classes of food additives, historical
aspects, permitted compounds, reasons for use, function,
advantages, disadvantages, breakdown pathways. toxicity
testing, regulations controlling use.
Classes of chemical additiws to be considered will include
the following: prese~atives, antioxidants, flavouring
compounds, colouring compounds, sweetening agents,
flavour enhancers, nutrients, emulsifiers.
Natural hazards associated with food.
Practical work: Experiments in food analysis - two hours per
week.
SKI90 Computing for Chemists
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: five hours
Subject description
This is an introductory course in computing for students
majoring in chemistry. Computing dominates the modern
day practice of chemistry from computer-aided automation
in the laboratory to scientific research involving
supercomputers. The aim of this course is to provide a good
foundation in computing principles. No previous computing
knowledge is assumed. An introduction to both computers
and the DOS operation system is presented. A programming
language, currently QBASIC, is introduced and applied to
solve problems typically encountered in chemistry.
SK290 Computer Science
8.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: five hours
Subject description
This is an introductory course in computing for students
majoring in the physical sciences. Computing dominates the
modern day practice of physics and chemistry from
computer-aided automation in the laboratory to scientific
research involving supercomputers. The aim of this course is
to provide a good foundation in computing principles. No
previous computing knowledge is assumed. An introduction
to both computers and the DOS operating system is
presented. A programming language, currently QBASIC or C,
is introduced and applied to solve problems typically
encountered by physical scientists.
SK2100 Applied Computing Methods
7.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: a combination of lecture and tutorial
sessions
Assessment: assignments and examination
A first-year subject of the degree course in environmental
health.
Subject description
Software tools: an introduction to the main software tools
encountered by environmental health specialists - job
command languages, editors, word processors, spreadsheets,
etc.
Computer software: an introduction to the use of microsoft
works, illustrated by the use of case studies.
Computer hardware: an introduction to microlmini computer
hardware architecture including peripheral devices.
communications, sub-systems and current technology I10
systems (graphics, OCR).
SM 106 Mathematics
7.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Assessment: examination and assignment
A first-year subject in the degree course in psychology and
psychophysiology.
Subject description
Functions and graphs
Basic functions: polynomials of degree one (linear functions),
polynomials of degree two (quadratic functions), polynomials
of degree N2. Roots and factors of polynomials. Linear
interpolation and extrapolation. Fitting polynomials to data.
Functions for science: exponential growth function, power
series representation of e", approximations for small x. Index
laws. Graph of y = e x . Decay function. Hyperbolic functions.
Fitting exponential functions to data.
Trigonometric functions: degrees and radius. Amplitude,
period, frequency, phase angle.
Inverse functions: composite functions. Logarithms. Inverse
trigonometric functions.
Other functions: the function f = lk. Limits and continuity,
Quotients of polynomials. Asymptotes.
Differentiation
Rates of change. Notation. Basic functions and their
derivatives. Rules of differentiation! Product rule, chain rule.
quotient rule. Higher derivatives. Stationary points: Maxima,
minima, and points of inflexion.
Integration
Integrals as limits of sums. Evaluating integrals of basic
functions. Substitution methods. lntegration by parts.
First-order ordinary differential equations
Variables separable. Linear.
Matrices
Determinants. Inverses of matrices. Solution of simultaneous
linear equations.
Vectors
Components, addition, unit vector, position vectors. Scalar
and vector products. Applications: work done, moment of
force.