ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 33 Interactive Classroom: 15 Total: 51
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Physical Chemistry
Areas: Physical Chemistry
Center Faculty of Sciences
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable
- Describe phase equilibrium and its application to real solutions and phase transitions in biomolecules.
- Identify the foundations of surface and interface phenomena and apply them to biological systems.
- Identify the transport phenomena relevant in biological systems.
- Discuss ion and electron transport in biological systems.
- Identify the fundamentals of Statistic Thermodynamics and apply them to biomolecules.
Theory:
- Phase equilibrium and application to biomolecules
- Non-ideal solutions.
- Surface and interface phenomena.
- Transport phenomena.
- Ion and electron transport in biological systems.
Laboratory program: laboratory experiments related to the theoretical contents of the subject.
The essential contents of this subject are included in the activity sheets for each topic that will be available in the virtual classroom. The activity sheets are mainly based on the following books. Another additional bibliography will be indicated in the virtual classroom if necessary.
• P. W. Atkins y J. de Paula, Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011.
• P. W. Atkins, J. de Paula y James Keeler, Atkins’ physical chemistry, 11th edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017. Spanish version: Atkins Química Física, 8th edition, Editorial Médica Panamericana, Buenos Aires, 2008. Student`s solutions manual for physical chemistry: solutions to problems corresponding the 6th edition.
• R. Chang, Physical chemistry for the biosciences, University Science Books, 2005. Spanish version: Fisicoquímica para las ciencias químicas y biológicas, Trad. R. Zugazagoitia, A. Rojas et al., MacGraw-Hill, México, 2008.
• H. Kuhn, H.-D. Försterling y D. H. Waldeck, Principles of physical chemistry, Wiley, Hoboken-New Yersey, 2009. Spanish version: Principios de fisicoquímica, trad. J. Hernández and M. A. Lanto, Cengage Learning, México, 2012.
General competences:
CG1 - Possess and understand the fundamental knowledge about the organization and function of biological systems at the cellular and molecular levels.
CG5 - Capacity to apply experimental laboratory protocols including the preparation of reagents in an exact and reproducible way.
Basic competences:
CB3 - Students should have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their field of study) to inform judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical.
CB5 - Students should have developed those learning skills needed to undertake further study with a high degree of autonomy.
Transversal competences
CT1: Capacity of analysis and synthesis.
CT7 – Capacity to solve problems.
CT14 – Capacity to apply knowledge to practice.
CT15 – Capacity for oral and written communication.
Specific competences:
CES1 – To understand the physical, chemical, mathematical and statistical foundations of biological processes, as well as the main physical, chemical, mathematical and statistical tolos used to investigate them.
LECTURES:
The methodology of the inverted classroom will be used, where the student works the theoretical concepts asynchronously before the class and solves related exercises and problems in groups during the class with the help of the professor. For this, the contents of the subject are divided in activity sheets and put at the disposal of the students in the virtual classroom. Before each class the degree of understanding reached by the students in each one of the concepts object of study will be checked with an on-line questionnaire. Based on the results, the teacher gives a brief explanation at the beginning of the class of those concepts that the students have not well understood. Afterwards the students solve in groups exercises and problems in which they apply the theoretical concepts studied.
SEMINARS:
In these classes, the students solve individually complex problems that combine different concepts studied before. A part of the classes will be used to prepare the project that will be developed during the practical lessons. The students participate actively in the seminars and their contribution is taken into account for the continuous evaluation.
TUTORIAL CLASSES:
These classes will be used to deal with some non-specific aspects of the subject (errors in measurements, data processing, etc.) but which are essential for problem solving and analysis of the experimental data from the practical sessions. Questions of interest related to the contents of the subject previously prepared by the students will also be discussed.
LABORATORY LESSONS:
The laboratory lessons are experimental work sessions in the laboratory in which the students acquire the basic skills of a chemistry laboratory and consolidate the knowledge acquired in the theory classes. Students should attend the practical lessons knowing the tasks to be carried out and the related theoretical concepts, for which they will have the corresponding teaching material in advance.
CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR REMOTE TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
The remote teaching activities would be carried out synchronously/asynchronously and always according to the schedule established by the center, through the different telematic means available at the USC, preferably the Virtual Campus and MS Teams.
Lectures and tutorial classes would be replaced by online sessions using the Microsoft Teams tool. Seminars would be held through the Virtual Campus and would consist of the individual resolution of questionnaires or exercises for their subsequent delivery. The laboratory lessons would be replaced by simple experiments related to the subject that could be carried out at home, together with the analysis of the experimental data that would have been obtained in the planned practices.
Direct communication, both among the students themselves and between them and the teacher, can be done through the Virtual Campus forum, through MS Teams or, in exceptional cases, by email.
ATTENDANCE: it is compulsory the assist to the laboratory lessons, seminars and tutorial classes except in case of an exceptional cause which has to be properly justified. The absence to these activities will have to be justified documentarily, accepting reasons of examination and of health, as well as those cases included in the university regulations.
ASSESSMENT OF THE STUDENTS:
The qualification “aprobado” will be obtained for a final grade of 5 of 10. The final grade, both in first and in second opportunity, will be based on the evaluation of the following aspects:
• 30% of the final grade: continuous evaluation based on the controls and the delivery of exercises and problems performed during the tutorials and the seminars, as well as the active participation in the lectures.
Evaluated competences: CB3, CB5, CG1, CT1, CT7, CT14, CT15, CES1.
• 20% of the final grade: evaluation of the laboratory lessons based on the previous preparation of the students, the laboratory report and the continuous evaluation in the laboratory. It will be necessary to obtain a minimum grade of 4 over 10 in the laboratory lessons to pass the subject.
Evaluated competences: CB3, CB5, CG6, CT1, CT7, CT14, CT15, CES1.
• 50% of the final grade: evaluation of the final exam of the subject with conceptual questions and problems, complementary to the continuous evaluation and the laboratory grade, both in the first and in the second opportunity and in any of the scenes. It will be necessary to obtain a minimum grade of 4 over 10 in the exam to pass the subject.
Evaluated competences: CB5, CG1, CT1, CT7, CT14, CES1.
PLAGIARISM AND MISUSE OF TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONDUCT OF TASKS OR TESTS: "For cases of fraudulent execution of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of student academic performance and revision of qualifications will apply."
CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR REMOTE TEACHING ACTIVITIES: The evaluation system will be the same regardless of the type of teaching used (face-to-face or virtual), with the only difference that the evaluation activities will be carried out, according to what the competent authorities establish, either in person in the classroom or remotely through the telematic means available at the USC.
This course involves 51 hours of attendance (plus 4 hours for the exams), so that students will invest about 95 additional hours of individual work, split between the home-study and deepening of the theory and the application of such content to the resolution of problems and the preparation of reports.
For each of the classroom activities the following times of personal work are estimated:
- Lectures: 33 h classroom, 33 h of individual personal work or in a group.
- Seminars: 3 h classroom, 17 h of individual personal work or in a group.
- Tutorial classes: 3 h classroom, 37 h of individual personal work or in a group.
- Laboratory lessons: 12 h laboratory, 12 h of individual personal work.
• It is important to keep the study of the subject “to the day”.
• The resolution of problems is fundamental for the learning of this subject.
• It is indispensable to prepare the laboratory lessons before entering in the laboratory.
• It is recommended to consult regularly the virtual classroom of the subject, where all the relevant information about the program, schedules and organization of the subject will be available, as well as the activity sheets and complementary audiovisual material (slides, simulations, web links, etc.) and also on-line questionnaires which help to prepare the theoretical contents.
CONTINGENCY PLAN
METHODOLOGY
CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR REMOTE TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
The remote teaching activities would be carried out synchronously/asynchronously and always according to the schedule established by the center, through the different telematic means available at the USC, preferably the Virtual Campus and MS Teams.
Lectures and tutorial classes would be replaced by online sessions using the Microsoft Teams tool. Seminars would be held through the Virtual Campus and would consist of the individual resolution of questionnaires or exercises for their subsequent delivery. The laboratory lessons would be replaced by simple experiments related to the subject that could be carried out at home, together with the analysis of the experimental data that would have been obtained in the planned practices.
Direct communication, both among the students themselves and between them and the teacher, can be done through the Virtual Campus forum, through MS Teams or, in exceptional cases, by email.
ASSESSMENT SYSTEM:
PLAGIARISM AND MISUSE OF TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONDUCT OF TASKS OR TESTS: "For cases of fraudulent execution of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of student academic performance and revision of qualifications will apply."
CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR REMOTE TEACHING ACTIVITIES: The evaluation system will be the same regardless of the type of teaching used (face-to-face or virtual), with the only difference that the evaluation activities will be carried out, according to what the competent authorities establish, either in person in the classroom or remotely through the telematic means available at the USC.
(This document has been machine-translated from the Spanish original.)
Maria De La Merced Novo Rodriguez
- Department
- Physical Chemistry
- Area
- Physical Chemistry
- m.novo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Wajih Al-Soufi
Coordinador/a- Department
- Physical Chemistry
- Area
- Physical Chemistry
- Phone
- 982824114
- wajih.al-soufi [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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