Polymers and Statistical Data Treatment

Flashcards covering polymer vocabulary, biological molecule structures, and fundamental statistical measures from the introductory lecture notes.

Polymers

Materials that comprise a large volume of consumer waste entering landfills, made from starting materials ranging from petroleum products to materials that mimic the structure of naturally occurring biological molecules.

Mean

The average of a data set used in basic statistical data treatment.

Median

The central number of a data set used in basic statistical data treatment.

Mode

The value seen most often in a data set used in basic statistical data treatment.

Polyester

A type of polymer structure represented in the context of consumer plastic starting materials.

Polyamide

A polymer structure featuring amide functional groups identified in polymer starting material classifications.

Protein

A naturally occurring biological molecule structure containing repeating $-C-N-CHR-C-N-CHR-C-$ linkages.