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2024 Faculty Courses School of Life Science and Technology Undergraduate major in Life Science and Technology

LST Seminar 1

Academic unit or major
Undergraduate major in Life Science and Technology
Instructor(s)
Makio Tokunaga / Ui Okada / Tatsuya Niwa / Tadaomi Furuta / Duy Phuoc Tran / Hidehiro Ito / Takao Sato / Kei Nishida / Tatsuya Matsunaga / Hiroyuki Tanaka / Taiga Ajiri / Kosuke Kikuchi
Class Format
Exercise (Face-to-face)
Media-enhanced courses
-
Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)
1-2 Mon
Class
-
Course Code
LST.A321
Number of credits
010
Course offered
2024
Offered quarter
3Q
Syllabus updated
Mar 14, 2025
Language
Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

Students learn the basics of physical chemistry necessary for studying life science and technology through exercises.
This course deals pwith physical chemistry for bioscience and biotechnologystudents. It quantitatively and qualitatively describes properties of macroscopicsystems, equilibrium and spontaneous changes, chemical reactions in gasand solution phase, physical processes, molecular dynamics, and genomeinfomatics. By taking specific life phenomena as subjects, the course willpromote an essential understanding of life phenomena. The ultimate goalof the course is to get an insight into the true nature of living organsfrom the view point of chemical and physical processes.

Course description and aims

Deepen understanding of physical chemistry classes, primarily PhysicalChemistry I, II, and III.
Specifically, students will acquire the ability to solve basic problemsin thermodynamics, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics, molecular dynamics,and genome informatics.

Keywords

physical chemistry

Competencies

  • Specialist skills
  • Intercultural skills
  • Communication skills
  • Critical thinking skills
  • Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Explanation of solutions to the previous exercise (about 30 minutes), andthe exercises (about 70 minutes).
Students are required to solve the problems during class time and submittheir answers at the end of class. For this reason, note that there willbe no opportunity to submit assignments at a later date in the case ofan absence without a special reason, including an absence due to a lateprovisional registration.

Course schedule/Objectives

Course schedule Objectives
Class 1 Introduction to the class, and exercises on thermodynamics (1) Solve problems in thermodynamics.
Class 2 EExplanation of exercises (1), and exercises on phase equilibrium (2) Solve problems in phase equilibrium.
Class 3 Explanation of exercises (2), and exercises on molecular dynamics (3) Solve problems in molecular dynamics.
Class 4 Explanation of exercises (3), and exercises on reaction kinetics (4) Solve problems in reaction kinetics.
Class 5 Explanation of exercises (4), and exercises on genome informatics (5) Solve problems in genome informatics.
Class 6 Explanation of exercises (5), and exercises on biomolecule thermodynamics (6) Solve problems in biomolecule thermodynamics.
Class 7 Explanation of exercises (6), and exercises on ion transport across biological membranes (7) Solve problems in ion transport across biological membranes.

Study advice (preparation and review)

To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.

Textbook(s)

Atkins, Paula. Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences (2nd ed). Tokyo: Tokyo Kagakudojin, 2014; ISBN-13: 978-4807908387. (Japanese)
Atkins, Paula. Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences (2nd revised ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press; ISBN-13: 978-0199564286. (English)

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Atkins, Paula. Atkins' Physical Chemistry I, II (10th ed). Tokyo: Tokyo Kagakudojin, 2017; ISBN-13: 978-4807909087, 978-4807909094. (Japanese)
Atkins, et al. Atkins' Physical Chemistry (11th ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018; ISBN-13: 978-0198769866. (English)

Evaluation methods and criteria

Based on attendance and grading results of exercises

Related courses

  • LST.A201 : Physical Chemistry I
  • LST.A206 : Physical Chemistry II
  • LST.A211 : Physical Chemistry III

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for taking the course.