Why chemistry

Because, chemists always synthesize or discover new substances and help technological developments. The modern residence you live in, the car your parents drive, the TV you watch, the Playstation you enjoy are all examples of the wonders achieved through the use of chemistry. 

Because, chemists produce all modern or traditional herbal drugs and medicine analyze blood, hormones, and urine as well as diagnoze illnesses. This can only be possible through the use of chemistry. 

Because, potable purified water, all organic or GM (Genetically Modified) fruits and vegetables are works of chemists. 

Because, if we look around us, chemistry is everywhere. The water you drink, the air you breathe, the bread you eat, the CD you listen to or the clothes you wear, are all made out of chemicals  

All toys, Including dolls and models, can be produced with the knowledge of chemistry. 

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Today we live in a world where everything from the chairs we sit in to the cars we drive are firstly designed by computer simulation and then built. There is no reason why chemistry should not be part of such a world, and why it should not be seen to be part of such a world by chemistry undergraduates. 

FRESHMAN CHEMISTRY is arguably an important course, one that needs to be viewed as a contribution beyond a service level. It affords the opportunity to make the case, to many students of varied disciplines, of why chemistry is the central science and is responsible for virtually all of the high-tech developments they encounter or read about. The course should be a vehicle to attract more students to chemistry. More importantly, it should instill greater respect for and appreciation of chemistry by students who will not necessarily specialize in it. In our view, this function is particularly important for engineering students, as they will frequently use the basic ideas in freshman chemistry in their professional lives, yet they often wonder where the connection is while they are exposed to these ideas in the classroom. 

The existence of two classes of metal atom cluster compounds is a fact of Nature. Like many such facts it is not neatly delineated there are many blurred boundaries, few quantitative relationships, and exceptions to most if not all generalizations concerning it. Despite this, the way we recognize the difference, use it, and try to account for it is a good example of why chemistry is both less exact and more interesting (to me) than physics and mathematics. We chemists are forced to tackle far more complex and "messy" problems than workers in these other fields and, in our own way, I think we make a good job of it. 

As chair, Dr. Thompson appointed himself the lecturer for freshman chemistry and decided to not just teach it, but to motivate the students about why chemistry was so much fun, interesting, and valuable. 

Chemistry simply can be defined as the study of matter and its changes. This definition shows that the science of chemistry encompasses all substances in our life In fact, chemistry is iife In this chapter, we try to explain why chemistry is so important in our lives. At the end, you ll see why chemistry is life. 

There is an important philosophical point here that must not go unremarked. We see that the sloping landscape of atomic diameter, with its occasional gentle rises, is the outcome of a competition of finely balanced forces. The effect of nuclear attraction only just dominates the landscape were it a little weaker, the kingdom would tilt the other way. This determination of landscape by almost equally balanced forces is characteristic of the landscape of the kingdom in all kinds of lights—and it is characteristic of chemistry as a whole. That is why chemistry is such a subtle subject, one where observations are so difficult to predict, for it is difficult to assess whether one particular effect or another will dominate. The kingdom is like a parliamentary democracy with almost equal party representation sometimes the left will win, sometimes the right. 

Brush, S. (1978). Why chemistry needs history and how it can get some. Journal of College Science Teaching, 7, 288-291. 

Many college students would not choose to take a chemistry course if it were not required for their major. Do you have a better appredation of why chemistry is a required course for yoiu own particular major or career choice Discuss. 

The bottom line is to work hard, study effectively, and use the tools available to you, including this textbook. We want to help you learn more about the world of chemistry and why chemistry is the central science. If you really learn chemistry, you can be the life of the party, impress your friends and parents, and. .. well, also pass the course with a good grade. 

In this part, I introduce you to the really basic concepts of chemistry. I define chemistry and show you where it fits among the other sciences (in the center, naturally). I show you the chemical world around you and explain why chemistry should be important to you. I also show you the three states of matter and talk about going from one state to another — and the energy changes that occur. 

To be more definite, the mass action law is a postulate in the phenomenological theory of chemical reaction kinetics. In the golden age of the quantum, chemistry seemed to be reducible to (micro)physics The underlying physical laws for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the diflBculty is only that exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble (Dirac, 1929). As was clearly shown by Golden (1969) the treatment of chemical reactions needs additional requirements, even at the level of quantum statistical mechanics. The broad-minded book of Primas (1983), in which the author deeply analyses why chemistry cannot be reduced to quantum mechanics is strongly recommended. 

This is why chemistry is mainty the science of outer shell orbitals. 

In the fourth paper I consider the ontological reduction of chemistry rather than epistemological reduction. As mentioned earlier, in this introduction, philosophers are not always persuaded by the naturalistic arguments that I presented in the previous paper. If present day quantum physics fails to fully reduce present day chemistry this may be due to some deficiencies in one or both of these enterprises. It may be due to our inability to bridge the computational gap effectively, even if the two descriptions are perfectly faithful in representing the fields of physics and chemistry. Many philosophers of a more analytical bent, who have not been persuaded by Quine s insistence that there is no first philosophy , are likely to ask whether there is any reason why chemistry is in principle not reducible to quantum physics. 

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