Forensic Chemistry SY24

Forensic Chemistry has been written to be a year long introductory course to chemistry that with forensic science as its overarching theme. Forensics was chosen because it provides students a captivating context for learning the fundamental concepts of chemistry.

Contents of this course:

1. An introduction to forensic chemistry
2. Evidence Collection and preservation
3. Atomic Clues
4. Chemical Evidence
5. Properties of Aqueous Solutions
6. Drug Chemistry
7. Chemistry of Addiction
8. Arson Investigations
9. Chemistry of Explosions
10. Estimating the Time of Death
11. Dirty Bombs and Nuclear Terrorism
12. Poisons
13. Identification based on DNA and Molecular Compounds