PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

CHEM 6854

SPRING 2016

POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS

DATE	POWERPOINT
Mon 25 Jan	Beginnings of quantum theory: blackbody problem, photoelectric effect, emission spectrum of Hydrogen
Wed 27 Jan	Einstein’s Annus Mirabili ;DeBroglie’s hypothesis;The road to Bohr’s atom
Wed 27 Jan	The Bohr derivation reprised
Friday 29 Jan	Bohr’s success; Bohr’s failures; spooky science and the Heisenburg Uncertainty picture
Monday 1 Feb	Complex Number Plane Pictures and Equations
Friday 5 Feb	Plot of Hooke’s Law solution and Pendulum displacement to a specific set of boundary conditions
Wednesday 10 Feb	Visual proof that l=2L/n
Wednesday 10 Feb	Maple plot of normal mode solutions and normal sum solutions to u(x,t) =X(x)T(t) solution to wave equation (Maple output)
Monday 15 Feb	Examples of particle-in-the box calculations
Friday 4 March	Quantum Harmonic Oscillator pictures
	Cyanine dye experiment
Friday March 25	Pictures surrounding the Schrodinger H atom solution
Monday March 28	Maple calculations with H atom functions
Friday April 1	L^2 calculations
	Sij Maple calculations for guided Practice 1
	Hij Maple Calculations for guided practice 1
	Final Maple secular matrix enhanced with E substitution (finds c1 and c2)
Friday April 22	Introduction to Thermodynamics
Monday April 25	Ideal Gas Pathways: why Q and W are not state functions
Wednesday April 27	Adiabatic expansion – where’s Tc ?
	Heat Capacity spectra
	Introduction to the Second Law
	Heat engines and efficiencies