Some Key Scientists in the Early Development of Physical Chemistry

  1. van't Hoff, Ostwald, Arrhenius
  2. Clausius, Boltzmann, Helmholtz

First Physical Chemistry Journal

  1. Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie (first issue)
  2. Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie (current issue)

Very Brief History of Physics and Physical Chemistry

  1. Timeline

Planck's Thoughts on Teaching Thermodynamics

  1. Planck's preface

Triple-Point Cells

  1. How to Make a Triple-Point Cell (Video)
  2. Another Triple-Point Cell (Video)
  3. Yet Another Triple-Point Cell (Video)

PVT Surfaces and Critical Phenomena

  1. PVT Surface (One-Component System)
  2. 3D Diagram with 2D Projections
  3. 2D Projection (One-Component System) Dashed Line = HOH
  4. Phase Diagram for Water
  5. Phases of Water
  6. Supercritical Fluid
  7. Supercritical Fluid Video
  8. Supercritical Fluids (Wikipedia)

Fundamental Physical Constants, Conversion Factors, Signifiant Figures

  1. Contants and Uncertainties (NIST)
  2. Unit Conversion Factors and Comments on Significant Figures (NIST)

Mathematics Tables and Integrators

  1. Table of Derivatives
  2. Table of Integrals
  3. Integrator (Symbolic - Mathematica)
  4. Wolfram Alpha (Many Online Math Tools)
  5. Online Math Tools: Calculators, Integrators, Plotters, etc.

The First Law of Thermodynamics

  1. Cannon boring experiments
  2. Pauli's prediction of the neutrino
  3. Energy Quotations
  4. Dry-Ice from Joule-Thompson Expansion
  5. Dry Ice from a Fire Extinquisher

Emmy Noether:Connections Between Symmetry and Conservation Laws

  1. Short Biography
  2. Qualitative Description of Noether's Theorem
  3. Noether's Theorem

Steam Engines

  1. Old film (2:04)
  2. Steam Turbine Systems as Heat Engines (Rankine Cycle)

Entropy

  1. Carnot Cycle
  2. Breaking Glass in Reverse
  3. Boltzmann's Gravestone
  4. NaCl Crystal Structure

Fugacity, Activity

  1. G. N. Lewis (Wikpedia)
  2. G. N. Lewis (Chemical Heritage Foundation)
  3. Lewis and Randall, 1923 Text

Thermodynamics Blogs

  1. CarnotCycle: The Classical Blog on Thermodynamics

Phase Equilibria

  1. Some Phases of Matter
  2. Sun/Plasma
  3. Helium Phase Diagram
  4. Liquid He Superfluid Phase
  5. BBC He Superfluid
  6. Physical Chemistry of Ice Skating
  7. Fractional Distillation Video
  8. Azeotropes
  9. Azeotropes
  10. Drug Delivery Polymer System using a Lower Critical Solution T

Partial Molar Volume

  1. Partial Molar Volumes (EtOH and HOH)

Vapor Pressure Above Liquids

  1. Vapor Pressure Demo
  2. Isoteniscope
  3. Measurement Video

Electrochemistry

  1. Classification of Electrochemical Cells
  2. Standard Electrode Potenials
  3. Standard Electrode Potenials
  4. pH Measurement with Glass Electrodes
  5. More on Glass Electrodes
  6. Combination Electrodes

Chemical Kinetics

  1. Rate Equations from Reaction Mechanisms
  2. Photo of a Potential Energy Surface Model
  3. Potential Energy Surface
  4. Belousov-Zhabotinsky Oscillating Reaction Demo
  5. Another Oscillating Reaction
  6. Details of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Oscillation Reaction
  7. BZ Reaction Mechanism
  8. Field-Noyes Oregonator Mechanism
  9. Spatial Patterns in an Unstirred Oscillation Reaction