Chemistry

Course summary

Sometimes referred to as the ‘central science’, Chemistry helps to connect physical sciences, like Maths and Physics, with applied sciences, such as Biology, Medicine and Engineering. In fact, Chemistry is all around us and an understanding of the subject can help to answer many simple questions about everyday life! - Physical Chemistry; - Inorganic Chemistry; - Organic Chemistry. Chemistry is one of the Russell Group universities’ ‘facilitating’ subjects — so called because choosing them in the Sixth Form allows a wide range of options for degree study. Specific areas of study may include aspects such as atomic structure, energetics, kinetics, oxidation, alkanes and alkenes, thermodynamics, polymers and amino acids, proteins and DNA.