Chemistry and Physics for Nurse Anesthesia (ANES500)

and biochemical principles and their pharmacological significance. Topics include the basics of 

chemistry; the basics of physics; states of matter and solutions; acids, bases and buffers; gas laws 

and their behavior; fluid hydrodynamics; principles of electricity; basic nuclear chemistry; 

organic compounds and their relationships to therapeutic drugs; and pertinent areas of 

carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids.