Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code applies to transactions in goods. Read 2-102. The word transactions is not defined in the Code. Look at 2-106(1); does that help? Much is encompassed within these parameters. Both the delivery of a multibillion-dollar space craft to the U.S. government and the purchase of a package of chewing gum at a local store trigger the application of Article 2 of the Code. Goods is defined in 2-105. Read it, and work through the following materials. PROBLEM 1 Whether Article 2 applies may determine the outcome of a case. If Article 2 applies, its rules may favor one party (such as the implied warranty of merchantability that automatically is given to many buyers by $2-314). Does Article 2 of the Code apply to the following matters? (b) The sale of real property? What about the sale of a house apart from the realty? See $2-107. (c) The sale of building materials as part of a construction project? See the case following this Problem. (d) The sale of standing timber? Crops? See 2-107. (e) A defective spinal plate given a patient in a hospital operating room? See Brandt v. Boston Scientific Corp., 204 III. 2d 640, 792 N.E.2d 296 (2003). The preparation of false teeth by a dentist? See Carroll v. Grabavoy, 77 III. App. 3d 895, 396 N.E.2d 836 (1977). The injection of a drug (for which the patient was separately billed) into a patient's eye as part of an operation? See Providence Hospital v. Truly, 611 S.W.2d 127 (Tex. Civ. App. 1980). (f) The sale of membership in a health spa?