This course is an introductory organic laboratory processes which seeks to enable students acquire basic laboratory skills for the techniques of crystallization, melting and boiling point determination; simple fractional and steam distillation; refluxing liquid-liquid extraction;paper, thin-layer and color chromatography.
This course gives a further insight into the concepts in physical chemistry. It deals with chemical bonding, various theories of bonding, as well as, structure and shape, the gas laws, the ideal gas law, deviations from ideality and its application. Prerequisite: CHE 101 A.
This is the practical component of PHY 102 and is designed to help students gain some hands-on experience with laboratory equipment as they perform experiments to enhance their understanding of some of the theoretical concepts.
Such experiments include the determination.This course is interactive and conversational in tone and aims at helping students to appreciate how to use the tools in logic in arriving at most cogent conclusions given different issues of life.
This is the second part of a two-semester introductory physics course aimed primarily at students majoring in the sciences and allied programmes. The main topics covered are Introductory Optics, Waves, Electricity and Magnetism. A non-calculus approach is used but a working knowledge of algebra is required.
The course introduces students to various methods of data collection, presentation, analysis and interpretation of scientific data. Data collection methods include experiments, field surveys and direct observations. Concepts of statistics, importance and misuse of statistics, sampling and its importance sampling methods (simple, random, systematic and stratified sampling).
Various types of data presentation (bar graph, pie chart, histogram, line graph, polygons and tables) will be discussed. Other areas are scales of measurements (nominal, ordinal interval, ratio), measures of central tendency (mean, mode, median, stem-and-leaf and box plots) and methods of dispersion range, quartiles, inter-quartiles, percentages, standard deviation, standard error, coefficient of variation).
The course provides a basic background in the various principles of Genetics with a focus on the cytological basis. It covers cell structure, nuclear divisions and chromosomal aberrations. These would illustrate the relevant cytological basis of Mendelian Genetics, Cytogenetics and Darwinian Evolution.
The course also covers the DNA structure, the Genetic Code based on the Central Dogma theory and the basis of Microbial genetics. The concepts of Recombinant DNA, Genetic engineering and Biotechnology would be mentioned..
This is the practical component of PHY101, and is assessed separately. It is intended to make physics as interesting and relevant as possible by investigating some practical applications of physics.
The main topics treated include Hook’s Law, Surface Tension, Simple Harmonic Motion, Density Measurements, Calorimetric and Thermal Expansion.
This course is intended to introduce students to some of the fundamental concepts and principles underlying physics so as to develop the scientific problem-solving skills and logical reasoning of students.
The knowledge acquired is for later application in allied programmes like Nursing, Optometry, Computer Science, Science Education and Laboratory Technology.
The main topics treated include Physical Quantities, Vectors, Dynamism, Kinematics, Thermodynamics, Work, Energy and Power.
Students are introduced to the classification of living organisms and the morphological characteristics of the following kingdoms of organisms: Prokaryotae, Protoctista, Fungi, Plantae and Animalia. The course also examines the life histories and adaptations of some selected members of the various kingdoms e.g.
Bacteria and Cyanobacteria; Protozoa with particular emphasis on the Sporozoa; Zygomycota, Ascomycota and Basidiomycota; Chlorophyta and Phaeophyta; Bryophyta; Lycophyta; Filinophyta; Gymnospermophyta, Angiospermophyta; Platyhelminthes, Nematoda; Arthropoda, Amphibia, Pisces, Reptilia, Aves; and Mammalia.
This course introduces students to the molecular composition of structure, purification of organic compounds, detection of elements like C, H, N, S and the halogens in organic compounds.
It will also cover topics such as calculation and determination of empirical and molecular formulae; structural and geometrical isomerism; pictorial treatment of sp, sp2, and sp3 hybridization in single,
double and triple bonds in hydrocarbons.
