Physical Chemistry with a Purpose: Module Drafts

Draft Modules

All modules, solutions are PDFs. Downloads are free, but I do ask for a name and e-mail address so that I can track the number of downloads for NSF reporting.

Nanomachines: Pulling Gold Nanowires (271 K)
Buckyballs: A Simple Quantum Mechanical Particle on a Sphere Model (1.25M)
Helix-Coil Transitions: Calculating the Entropy of a Helix-Coil Transition in a Small Antibacterial Peptide using Statistical Mechanics (763 K)
- Solution Key for Helix-Coil module. (930 K)
Archeometry: Using Amino Acid Racemization to Determine the Age of Artifacts (891 K)
- Solution Key for Archeometry module. Revised 3/29/05 to correct two errors (thanks to Tracy Schoolcraft!)(930 K)
Exotic Kinetics: Oscillating Reactions in the Troposphere (446 K)
- Solution Key for Exotic Kinetics module. (258 K)
- Mathematica notebook for related exercise.
Raman Spectroscopy: Detecting forged medieval manuscripts (1.23 M)

This page is maintained by Michelle M. Francl, mfrancl@brynmawr.edu. Last updated 29 March 2005.