Physical Chemistry 263

Carl W. David

This site is under active editing Spring 2003, and some patience is required in dealing with errors that may occur due to mistakes in editing. Thanks. Carl David

The following materials are available:

Review of Elementary Mathematics/Chemistry/Physics

Beginning Discussion of Mathematics Prerequisites for Physical Chemistry (a work in progress, comments cheerfully accepted)
Elementary Review Problems
Here is ch1q23 worked out in Maple V to show a method of working which students may find beneficial. Maple ch1q23.

Practice Exam Questions, First Semester (Chemistry 263)

Gases and Kinetic Theory
Some additional pertinant readings are listed here:
Solids
Energy, Work and Heat
Thermochemistry
Second Law, Carnot Cycles, Entropy, Third Law
Some additional pertinant readings are listed here:
Stability, Free Energy (Thermodynamic Potentials)
Phase Equilibria
Chemical Equilibrium
Chemical Kinetics
Solubilty Products, Acids and Bases, Buffers
Elementary Quantum (0)

I would like to thank the students in Chemistry 263-4 who materially aided in the debugging of most of these questions, and without whose patience and understanding this project could not have been brought to its current state.
Specifically, the surviving students:

M. Articolo

J. Cavallari

A. Evenski

S. Golden

C. Hu

B. Litke

J. Morin

T. Neyarapally

B. Rivers

C. Sharma

J. Zgorski
worked very hard checking these questions. Since they have been edited since being checked, the responsibilty for subsequent induced errors surely remains with me.
cwd, May 2,1996

Practice Exam Questions, Second Semester (Chemistry 264)

Elementary Quantum (I) Particle In a Box
Elementary Quantum (II) Harmonic Oscillator
Elementary Quantum (III) Angular Momentum
Elementary Quantum (IV) Rigid Rotor
Elementary Quantum (V) H Atom (and beyond)
Elementary Quantum (VI) H₂⁺ Cation Radical (and beyond)
Spectroscopy (I)
Statistical Thermodynamics
For a disscussion of the Maxwell Boltzmann Distribution and the
1. First Law of Thermodynamics you can look here.
2. The Maxwell Boltzmann Distribution Without Lagrange Multipliers.
3. The Stirling Approximation, a derivation using the area to integral formulation
For an advanced discussion of (mostly) quantum chemistry, in a computer guided reading format, you can look at Computer Guided Reading in Quantum Chemistry

If you are interested in how these questions were created, i.e., Perl, CGI, HTML, Latex2HTML, Java, etc., etc., etc., then you may wish to look at a a book which explains at various levels how these questions can be implemented. Since this book is constantly changing, please forgive its rather informal style.
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Change of Grade Form

Ein kluger Mensch lernt von seinen Fehlern, ein kluegerer Mench von den Fehlern von Anderen!
Frank W. David, b:June 4, 1904 d:June 10, 1960

h = 6.62606891x10^-34 Joule-sec E. R. Williams, R. L Steiner, D. B. Newell and P. T. Olsen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2404 (1998)