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This book focuses on those topics in general chemistry that highlight scientific reasoning and quantitative problem solving. Entropy, for example, is approached in different ways to give students a more conceptual view of the concept. Atomic and molecular orbitals are described by their probability nodes and maxima to permit the student to...

Both enzyme catalyzed reactions and ion transport in through channels in membranes are described by a large number of different equations for different situations. However, the equations for both systems are very similar. An enzyme moves reactant to product; a channel moves an ion to the opposite side of a membrane. Techniques to develop the...

Essential Quantum Chemistry complements and clarifies soluble chemical quantum systems from an electron on a line to the hydrogen atom. Energies for the electron on a line are developed only from the wave properties of the electron. The more complicated hydrogen atom orbitals are inferred using modal analysis. Matrices and vectors are introduced...

A sabbatical year in Nice, France Provided an opportunity for the four of us to experience and new culture and language. It did not predict how the four of us each adjusted to our own challenges. For example, each of us learned the language in our own way. Failies in France and other European countries Provided a new perspective on our own...

Poland was embracing freedom and capitalism in 1991 when I was a visiting professor in Wroclaw and living in a small village on its outskirts. Poland changed dramatically from drab and boring to pastel and exciting while my wife and I confronted mini-dramas like lighting a coal furnace or navigating border crossings with a new car. Through it...

The study of thermodynamics is often limited to classical thermodynamics where minimal laws and concepts lead to a wealth of equations and applications. The resultant equations best describe systems at equilibrium with no temporal or s- tial parameters. The equations do, however, often provide accurate descriptions for systems close to...