Course Description

Preparation for General Chemistry, CHEM 1P

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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Units of measurement, dimensional analysis, significant figures; elementary concepts of volume, mass, force, temperature; fundamentals of atomic and molecular structure; the mole concept; stoichiometry; properties of the states of matter; solutions, concentrations. NOTE: Chemistry 1P satisfies no requirements other than contribution to the 180 units required for graduation. Designed for students without a high school chemistry background or who need additional help prior to enrollment in Chemistry 1A. Refer to the guidelines for Chemistry course placement on the Testing Center's Web site. Students who take Chemistry 1P must earn a grade of C- or better to move on to Chemistry 1A.

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Credit: 4 quarter units / 2.67 semester units credit
UC Irvine, Chemistry

Course Credit:

Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.

If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.

UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit

UC Davis:
Unit Credit

UC Irvine:
Major Preparation:
Chemistry Pre-Major

UC Los Angeles:
Unit Credit

UC Merced:
Course Equivalence: Chem 1P at Irvine is equivalent to Chem 001 at UC Merced.
Units toward degree (see your advisor)

UC Riverside:
Unit Credit

UC San Diego:
General Education: Revelle - one course towards Natural Science; Warren - May be counted depending on major/PofC; TMC 1 course toward Chemistry or 1 course toward lower division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; Muir: one course in a Natural Science theme in "Chemistry, Physics, and the Environment; ERC - 1 Natural Science; Sixth - 1 course in Analytic Methodologies;

UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit

UC Santa Barbara:
Unit Credit

UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit

Prerequisites

None

Course Fees

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More About The Course

Chemistry is everywhere. It is in your body, your garden, your clothes, your food, your plastic bags and your shampoo. Knowing chemistry is knowing something about why things are the way they are and how we can make things better. Making better bags, stronger clothes, brighter paints and more effective drugs.
Chemistry is a fascinating science. But before diving deep into chemistry, you have to know the basics. This course provides you with these basics. When you complete this course, you are ready to start college level chemistry classes.

Course Creator

Eric Potma
Born and raised in the Netherlands, Eric Potma got his Masters at the University of Groningen in 1996. He stayed five more years for his graduate research, which he completed in 2001. Eric focused his research on molecular spectroscopy and the application of nonlinear methods to optical imaging. In 2001, Potma joined the group of Prof. Sunney Xie at Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow, where he further developed imaging methods for chemical mapping. In 2005, Eric joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of California in Irvine, where he currently is an Associate Professor. He maintains a research group in chemical imaging and is actively involved with undergraduate teaching and General Chemistry course development. Born and raised in the Netherlands, Eric Potma got his Masters at the University of Groningen in 1996. He stayed five more years for his graduate research, which he completed in 2001. Eric focused his research on molecular spectroscopy and the application of nonlinear methods to optical imaging. In 2001, Potma joined the group of Prof. Sunney Xie at Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow, ...

Born and raised in the Netherlands, Eric Potma got his Masters at the University of Groningen in 1996. He stayed five more years for his graduate research, which he completed in 2001. Eric focused his research on molecular spectroscopy and the application of nonlinear methods to optical imaging. In 2001, Potma joined the group of Prof. Sunney Xie at Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow, where he further developed imaging methods for chemical mapping. In 2005, Eric joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of California in Irvine, where he currently is an Associate Professor. He maintains a research group in chemical imaging and is actively involved with undergraduate teaching and General Chemistry course development.

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