Physical Chemistry Using Mathcad

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This book does two things: 1) Teaches the aspects of Mathcad that are most useful for solving problems in physical chemistry and related disciplines. 2) Teaches physical chemistry and how to solve physical chemistry problems. It is meant to be an interactive exploration of physical chemistry using Mathcad. Mathcads advantage over competing programs is its ability to keep track of units, do unit conversions, and its ease of learning and use. While it is primarily intended for students, it will also be useful for graduate scientists and engineers who wish to review the subject or to learn about new methods of doing scientific and engineering calculations using a microcomputer.

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Examples from physical chemistry include problems from thermodynamics, kinetics, transport processes and quantum mechanics.

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Joseph H. Noggle Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Delaware

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INTRODUCTION
Getting Started Mathematical Functions On-line Help Labeling Worksheets with Text Examples Example 1: Unit conversion. Example 2: Ideal gas law. Example 3: Square roots. Example 4: Functions and graphs. Example 5: Entering and graphing data. Example 6: Mean and standard deviation. Other Features Calculus Solving Equations Curve Fitting Example 7: Fitting data to a straight line. Example 8: Interpolation Pitfalls and Precautions Numerical Formatting Built-in Variables Common Errors A cautionary example.

CHAPTER 1 PROPERTIES OF GASES

1.1 Equations of State The van der Waals Equation Example 1.1 Pressure of a gas using the van der Waals equation. Example 1.2 Graph isotherms using the vdw equation. Example 1.3 Volume and density of a gas using the van der Waals equation.

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CHAPTER 1 PROPERTIES OF GASES
The Redlich-Kwong Equation Example 1.4 Pressure of a gas using the RK law. Example 1.5 Density of a gas using the RK law. 1.2 The Virial Series Example 1.6 Virial coefficients from compressibility data. Example 1.7 Derive the virial coefficients of a van der Waals gas. Example 1.8 Derive the virial coefficients of an RK gas. Second Virial Coefficient and Boyle Temperature. Example 1.9 Second virial coefficient and Boyle temperature using the van der Waals equation. Example 1.10 Second virial coefficient and Boyle temperature using the RK equation. Example 1.11 Second virial coefficient and Boyle temperature using Berthelot formula. Example 1.12 Second virial coefficient and Boyle temperature using the Beattie-Bridgeman formula. 1.3 Kinetic Theory Example 1.13 Average, rms and most probable molecular speeds. Example 1.14 Average molecular weight of air and the number of collisions with a wall. Example 1.15 Pumping rate of a vacuum system as limited by Knudsen flow. Example 1.16 Vapor pressure of a material by the Knudsen method. Distribution Function for Speed Example 1.17 Graphing the Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution Example 1.18 Fraction of molecules in a gas moving faster than some speed. Example 1.19 Fraction of molecules having kinetic energy less than kT. Problems Answers

CHAPTER 2 THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS

2.1 Heat Capacity Example 2.1 Graphing heat capacity. 2.2 Energy and Enthalpy vs. Temperature Integration of Heat Capacity Formulas Example 2.2 deltaH and deltaU for heating HI (ideal gas). Example 2.3 deltaH for cooling graphite (constant P). Integration of Heat Capacity Data Example 2.4 delataH by numerical integration.

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2.3 Variation of U and H With Pressure Example 2.5 Internal pressure of an RK Gas Example 2.6 Internal pressure of benzene liquid. Example 2.7 deltaH with pressure for a condensed phase. 2.4 Variation of Heat Capacity with P and V Example 2.8 Heat capacity (Cv) of ethane at 5 MPa. 2.5 Standard State and Gas Imperfections Example 2.9 Derive imperfection formulas for RK Example 2.10 Internal energy and enthalpy imperfection. Example 2.11 (H using the RK equation of state. 2.6 Expansions of Gases Adiabatic Reversible Expansion Example 2.12 Temperature change on adiabatic reversible expansion. Example 2.13 Adiabatic lapse rate. Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion. Joule Expansion Example 2.14 Final temperature of a Joule expansion. Joule-Thomson Expansion Example 2.15 Joule-Thomson inversion temperature. Example 2.16 Temperature drop on Joule-Thomson. Problems Answers

CHAPTER 3 THE SECOND AND THIRD LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS

3.1 Entropy Change with Temperature Example 3.1 deltaS and deltaH for melting 1 kg of aluminum Example 3.2 deltaS for heating CO2 at constant V or P. Example 3.3 delatS for heating OCS by data interpolation. 3.2 Entropy of an Ideal Gas Example 3.4 Entropy change of a monatomic ideal gas with T and P. 3.3 Third Law Entropy Example 3.5 Entropy of benzene. Importing data. Example 3.6 Standard entropy of silver at 850 K. Entropy Change With Pressure Example 3.7 Entropy change with pressure for an ideal gas. Example 3.8 Entropy change with pressure, condensed phase (Hg). 3.4 Entropy of Real Gases Example 3.9 Entropy imperfection using the RK law. Example 3.10 Adiabatic reversible expansion of a real gas. Problems Answers

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CHAPTER 4 PHASE EQUILIBRIUM
4.1 The Clausius-Clapeyron Equation Example 4.1 Estimate vapor pressure from boiling-point data. Example 4.2 Interpolation and extrapolation of vapor-pressure data. Example 4.3 Temperature dependence of the enthalpy of vaporization. 4.2 Curve Fitting Example 4.4 Enthalpy of vaporization by linear regression of vapor pressure vs. temperature data. Example 4.5 General linear regression. 4.3 Condensed-Phase Equilibria Example 4.6 Variation of the melting point of water with pressure. Example 4.7 Changing graphite to diamond. 4.4 Calculating Vapor Pressure From Gas Laws. Example 4.8 Calculate volume in the 2-phase region. Example 4.9 Free energy and volume. The Redlich-Kwong Equation of State Example 4.10 Vapor pressure of nitrogen at 77 K. Example 4.11 Vapor pressure of nitrogen at 110 K. Example 4.12 Calculate the boiling temperature of a gas. The van der Waals Equation of State Example 4.13 Calculate the boiling point of nitrogen using vdw. Problems Answers

CHAPTER 5 STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS

5.1 Configurations and Entropy Example 5.1 Probability for coin flips. Example 5.2 Stirling's approximation. Example 5.3 The mass distribution and entropy of isotopic mixing. 5.2 Boltzmann's Law Example 5.4 Permutations of the letters of a word. Example 5.5 Distribution of identical particles among a set of energy levels. Example 5.6 Boltzmann distribution for a 2-level system. Example 5.7 Boltzmann distribution for a series of equally spaced levels. Example 5.8 Boltzmann distribution and thermodynamics of a harmonic oscillator.

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5.3 Calculating Thermodynamic Properties Example 5.9 Translational partition function and entropy. Example 5.10 Entropy and heat capacity of a diatomic molecule. Example 5.11 Entropy and heat capacity of a polyatomic molecule. 5.4 Excited Electronic States Example 5.12 Heat capacity of open-shell atoms. Example 5.13 Heat capacity of NO 5.5 Alternate Computational Method Example 5.14 The anharmonic oscillator Problems Answers

CHAPTER 6 CHEMICAL REACTIONS

6.1 Enthalpy of Reaction Example 6.1 Enthalpy of formation from the heat of combustion. Change of Reaction Enthalpy with Temperature Example 6.2 Enthalpy of reaction vs. T 6.2 Adiabatic Flame Temperature Example 6.3 Flame temperature of butane in air. Example 6.4 Flame temperature of acetylene in air. 6.3 Calculating Equilibrium Constants Example 6.5 Equilibrium constant of the Boudouard reaction. Example 6.6 Interpolating the free-energy function. 6.4 Fugacity of a Gas Example 6.7 Fugacity from compressibility factors. Example 6.8 Fugacity from the RK law. 6.5 Calculating the Extent of Reaction Example 6.9 Dissociation of phosgene. Example 6.10 The Haber synthesis. Example 6.11 Multiple equilibria: Fischer-Tropsch. Problems Answers

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CHAPTER 7 SOLUTIONS
7.1 Raoult's Law Example 7.1 Activity coefficients from vapor pressures. 7.2 Henry's Law Example 7.2 Henry's law constant for bromine in carbon tetrachloride. 7.3 Gibbs-Duhem Equation Example 7.3 Activity coefficients from freezing-point depression. 7.4 Equilibrium in Solution Example 7.4 Solubility of iodine in water. Example 7.5 Solubility of carbon dioxide in water. Problems Answers

CHAPTER 8 IONIC SOLUTIONS

8.1 Equilibrium in Solution Example 8.1 Mean ionic activity coefficient. Solubility of Salts Example 8.2 Solubility of silver sulfate. Example 8.3 The common-ion effect on the solubility of a salt. Acid/Base Solutions Example 8.4 Dissociation and pH of a weak acid. Example 8.5 pH of a buffer. Example 8.6 Base hydrolysis Multiple Equilibria Example 8.7 Multiple equilibria: the solubility of silver chloride in chloride solution. 8.2 Electrochemistry Example 8.8 Equivalent conductivity at infinite dilution. Example 8.9 Thermodynamic equilibrium constants from conductivity. 8.3 Electrochemical Cells Example 8.10 Cell emf and the Nernst equation. Example 8.11 Standard emf and activity coefficients from cell emf. Example 8.12 Entropy from cell emf. Problems Answers

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CHAPTER 9 TRANSPORT PROPERTIES
9.1 Molecular Collisions Example 9.1 Intermolecular collisions and mean free path. Example 9.2 Collisions of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. 9.2 Random Walks Example 9.3 The binomial coefficients. Example 9.4 Random walk in one dimension. Example 9.5 Net distance traveled by a molecule in a gas. Diffusion Limit Example 9.6 The radial distribution function and average distance from origin. Effect of a Barrier Example 9.7 Diffusion of a particle away from a wall. Example 9.8 The effect of an absorbing wall on the diffusion of a molecule. 9.3 Diffusion Example 9.9 Introduction to programming. Example 9.10 The diffusion game. Example 9.11 Diffusion from a step-function source. 9.4 Viscosity Example 9.12 Flow of an incompressible fluid through a tube. Example 9.13 Flow of a compressible fluid through a tube. Example 9.14 Stokes law. Example 9.15 Viscosity of a gas. Example 9.16 The Sutherland equation: nonlnear regression. Problems Answers

CHAPTER 10 CHEMICAL KINETICS

10.1 Analysis of Kinetic Data Example 10.1 First-order reaction. Example 10.2 Second-order reaction. Example 10.3 Nonlinear regression. 10.2 Temperature Dependence of Rate Constants Example 10.4 Arrhenius analysis of rate-constant data.

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10.3 Differential Equations and Mechanisms Example 10.5 Solving differential equations with Mathcad. Example 10.6 The autocatalytic reaction. Example 10.7 Consecutive first-order reactions. Example 10.8 Testing the steady-state approximation. Example 10.9 The Lotka-Volterra mechanism. Example 10.10 The chaos game. Example 10.11 Fourier transform. 10.4 Surface Adsorption and Catalysis Example 10.12 Data analysis of Langmuir adsorption. Example 10.13 Decomposition on a surface Example 10.14 Decomposition of ammonia on tungsten. 10.5 Enzyme Catalysis Example 10.15 Lineweaver-Burk analysis. Example 10.16 Hanes analysis. Example 10.17 Weighted Linear regression. Problems Answers

CHAPTER 11 QUANTUM THEORY

11.1 Bohr Theory Example 11.1 Constants and sample calculations. Example 11.2 Ionization potential. Example 11.3 The Rydberg series. 11.2 Particle in a Box Example 11.4 Wave functions and probability. Example 11.5 Is translational motion quantized? Example 11.6 The blue electron. 11.3 Harmonic Oscillator Example 11.7 How fast do molecules vibrate? How stiff is a chemical bond? Example 11.8 Wave functions; the classical turning point. Example 11.9 Populations of vibrational energy levels. Example 11.10 Hermite polynomials by recursion. 11.4 Rigid Rotor Example 11.11 Complex numbers. Example 11.10 How fast do molecules rotate? Example 11.12 Populations of rotational energy levels. Problems Answers

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CHAPTER 12 ATOMS AND MOLECULES
12.1 Atomic Orbitals Example 12.1 Polar plots. Example 12.2 Surface and contour plots. Example 12.3 Surface plots of atomic orbitals. Example 12.4 The radial distribution function; probability and average values. Example 12.5 Polar plots and the shape of atomic orbitals. Example 12.6 The Legendre Polynomials Example 12.7 Parametric surface plots. 12.2 Molecular Orbitals Example 12.8 The sigma MOs Example 12.9 The pi MOs 12.3 Molecular Spectroscopy Example 12.10 Vibrational spectroscopy. Example 12.11 The Morse potential. Example 12.12 Rotational spectroscopy. Example 12.13 Bond length of a diatomic molecule. Problems Answers

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