Resources

Various links and handouts that will help guide you through Chem342.

Download your textbook "Free Energy" here (lol its free!). Or visit the "Free Energy" website.
A refresher hour on Calculus can be found here.
A short textbook on Calculus for the physical sciences: Link is here.

Thermo cheat sheet, late class expanded edition is here.

Here are symbolic indefinite and definite integral calculators from Wolfram, as well as a derivative calculator.
Van der Waals constants: Link is here.

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Module Specific Handouts. Heading link

  1. Exact vs. inexact partial differentials.
  2. The Equipartition Theorem.
  3. Adiabatic equations of state.
  4. Adiabatic and irreversible transitions.
  5. Carnot Cycle review.
  6. Review of Legendre transforms and Maxwell equations.
  7. A few examples of thermodynamic proofs.
  8. Kirchoff’s Law example.
  9. Equilibrium Constant example problem.
  10. Raoult’s Law.
  11. A review of osmotic pressure.