Experiments for Living Chemistry

David Ucko

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780127069562
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323160209
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Chemistry
• Index: Chemistry

Experiments for Living Chemistry provides practical, ""hands-on"" experiments illustrating the concepts, substances, and techniques that are important to students in the health-related sciences. Many of these experiments are based on physiological substances to show students how chemical principles apply to the functioning of their own bodies, while other experiments use cut-outs to help students visualize such complex concepts as bonding and protein synthesis. This book is organized into 23 chapters that correspond on a chapter by chapter basis with the Living Chemistry textbook. The first five chapters include discussions on matter, measurement, chemical bonding, compounds, chemical change, gases, and respiration. The subsequent chapters deal with water, solutions, acids, bases, salts, hydrocarbons, and nuclear and organic chemistry. Other chapters explore the oxygen and other derivatives of the hydrocarbons, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, enzymes, and digestion. Considerable chapters are devoted to the metabolism of carbohydrate, energy, lipid, and proteins. The remaining chapters examine the heredity and protein synthesis, vitamins, hormones, body fluids, drugs, and poisons. At the end of each chapter, there are sets of questions designed to help the student relate the laboratory experiments to the textbook and to the lecture portion of the course. Each experiment in the chapter has a corresponding question set that should be answered only after the experiment has been completed. This book is an invaluable study guide to chemistry teachers and undergraduate students.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Experiments for Living Chemistry
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• SAFETY RULES
• COMMON LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
• Chapter 1. Matter and measurement
• Chapter 2. The composition of matter
• Chapter 3. Chemical bonding
• Chapter 4. Compounds and chemical change
• Chapter 5. Gases and respiration
• Chapter 6. Water
• Chapter 7. Solutions
• Chapter 8. Acids, bases, and salts
• Chapter 9. Nuclear chemistry and radiation
• Chapter 10.Organic Chemistry—hydrocarbons
• Chapter 11. Oxygen derivatives of the hydrocarbons
• Chapter 12. Other organic derivatives and polymers
• Chapter 13. Carbohydrates
• Chapter 14. Lipids
• Chapter 15. Proteins
• CHapter 16. Enzymes and digestion
• Chapter 17. Energy and carbohydrate metabolism
• Chapter 18. Metabolism of lipids
• Chapter 19. Metabolism of proteins
• Chapter 20. Heredity and protein synthesis
• Chapter 21. Vitamins and hormones
• Chapter 22. Chemistry of the body fluids
• Chapter 23. Drugs and poisons
• APPENDIX: A Equipment
• APPENDIX: B Chemicals
• APPENDIX: C Periodic Table
• APPENDIX: D International table of atomic weights