Rutgers Learn and Go

Subject: AI This episode introduces artificial intelligence (AI), differentiating between strong AI (general, human-level intelligence) and narrow AI (focused on specific tasks like image recognition). It contrasts traditional programming, rule-based and manual, with machine learning, which involves training models on vast datasets. The document then explores building AI solutions using pre-traine...

Subject: Organic Chemistry This deep dive explains relative and absolute configurations in stereochemistry, focusing on how to determine them. Relative configuration compares a molecule to a reference molecule, while absolute configuration describes a molecule's exact 3D structure using the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog (CIP) priority rules to assign R or S descriptors. The deep dive also covers E/Z nom...

Subject: Organic Chemistry Configurational isomers, unlike conformational isomers, require bond breaking to interconvert. The deep dive focuses on two main types: enantiomers, which are nonsuperimposable mirror images with identical properties except for optical activity, and diastereomers, which are not mirror images and possess distinct properties. Chirality, or handedness, is central to underst...

Subject: Organic Chemistry Isomers, molecules with the same formula but different atom arrangements, are classified into structural and stereoisomers. The focus of this deep dive, conformational isomers, a type of stereoisomer, arise from rotations around single bonds, resulting in various spatial arrangements with different energies. Cyclic conformations, a subset of conformational isomers, invol...

The IUPAC naming convention (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) is a systematic method for naming chemical compounds to ensure consistency and clarity worldwide. Here is an overview of the rules and guidelines for naming organic compounds: IUPAC Naming Procedure 1. Identify the Longest Carbon Chain (Parent Chain) Choose the longest continuous chain of carbon atoms as the parent cha...

This deep dive uncovers the process of digestion, exploring the roles of various organs involved. This deep dive also goes over how things can go wrong in the abdomen and how to improve digestive health. [AI Generated]

This deep dive of the elbow provides an examination of elbow anatomy and the joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves, and blood vessels involved in the elbow. [AI Generated]

In this deep dive, we'll look through the rate laws and compare zero order, first order, and second order reactions. [AI Generated]

Subject: Biology This discussion focuses on water-soluble messenger pathways. We examine different types of receptors for water-soluble messengers.  Article Version: https://medium.com/@amt303/water-soluble-messenger-pathways-episode-4-360fddcaa59a  Host: Hello, my name is Ashish Thomas. I'm a Biomedical Engineering student on the premed track at Rutgers University. I'm very passionate a...

Subject: General Chemistry This discussion focuses on intermolecular and intramolecular forces. We start by going over intramolecular forces by examining covalent and ionic bonds. We then shift our discussion to the different types of intermolecular forces and their properties.  Article Version: https://medium.com/@amt303/intermolecular-and-intramolecular-forces-episode-3-0e5d9b4a6f57  Host: Hello...

Subject: Biology This discussion focuses on the nervous system, and it goes over the different components of the nervous system.  Article Version: https://medium.com/@amt303/nervous-system-episode-2-3aa8b08ab597  Host: Hello, my name is Ashish Thomas. I'm a Biomedical Engineering student on the premed track at Rutgers University. I'm very passionate about engineering, and I hope to use m...

Subject: Biology This discussion focuses on viruses, and it goes over the different types of bacteriophage replication. The processes are compared and contrasted in detail.  Textbook: https://openstax.org/books/biology-2e/pages/21-introduction  Article Version: https://medium.com/@amt303/viral-replication-cycles-9c1385f414e1 Host:  Hello, my name is Ashish Thomas. I'm a Biomedical Engineering...