Chemical thermodynamics: laws of thermodynamics, phase equilibria, chemical equilibria, equations of state.

Prerequisites: Chemistry 1C or 2C; and, Mathematics 2A-B or 3A-B, and 6A; and, Physics 7A-B-C-L, or, Physics 1-2-3-3L-4-4L, or, Physics 6A-AL-B-BL-C-CL.

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Vojtech Vlcek
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Steve Buratto
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Fall 2025 . Bowers M T
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CHEM 113A Buratto S K Fall 2024 Total: 37
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113A . Buratto S K 5 Months Ago

Prof. Buratto is a great lecturer and very consistent with his expectations when it comes to the format of the course. Homework is lengthy and difficult which prepares you well for the exams which are similar but much easier. He walks like a chad and yells at the class but is super nice and clearly cares about his students.

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CHEM113A . 1 Year, 5 Months Ago

This professor assigns math-heavy homework for chem majors. However, during his office hours, he struggles to smoothly calculate even the second derivative when providing examples. TAs are much more helpful than him. You should take advantage if you have to take the class: he might award you an 'A' even if your grade is B if you satisfy his egotism

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CHEM113A . 1 Year, 5 Months Ago

He seems to pretend to care about students, but in reality, it's similar to what other comments have mentioned: he takes great pleasure in tormenting students. He holds strong opinions about individual student behaviors and exhibits a drastically negative attitude, almost like insulting you if he doesn't like you: focus on making him happy.

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CHEM113A . 1 Year, 6 Months Ago

There's a lot of negative reviews for this professor, but when the alternative professor is Bowers - widely regarded as a very mean professor - Vojtech is actually a very good prof. He cares about students a lot, and is very passionate about the material, which is nice to see. Hard exams, but as typical with chem - there will be a big curve!

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113A . Buratto S K 2 Years Ago

I took his class maybe 9 years ago. I don't remember much but a lot of PDEs. And I remember that he was extremely passionate and on a good day he was AMPED to be up there lecturing for us. Good guy.

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CHEM113A . Buratto S K 5 Years Ago

Buratto was an amazing lecturer and an extremely fair test maker. He would tell you everything you needed to know for an exam and his lectures explained everything step by step. There's a pretty significant curve at the end of class. My test results would have gotten me around a C- in a different class, but the curve brought me up to a B.

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