Links:

General Links

• NIST: Constants, Units and Uncertainty - excellent physical chemistry resource!
• NIST: Chemistry Web Book - useful physical data (useful for assignments)
• Korean Physical Chemistry Animations - Play with these interactive animations
• NTNU Virtual Physics Laboratory - Javascript animations demonstrating a variety of concepts
• UCI Physical Chemistry Applets - Java animations from the U. of California at Irvine
• Chemistry Java Applets from UC Davis - Large collection of applets (some of which do not function)
• PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway - great collection of web resources

Lecture Related Links and Animations

• Useful Information for 59-240 - physical constants, units, etc.
• Periodic Table of the Elements - nice printable table
• Gas Law Tutorial Index - excellent set of animations and figures about basic properties of gases
• Ideal Gas Law (L2) - A Javascript animation by Aspire - try increasing and decreasing the temperature
• The Museum of Unworkable Devices (L5) - lots of stuff on very flawed perpetual motion machines
• The Hojo Motor (L5) - a free energy scam aimed at truly gullible people
• Phase Diagrams (L18) - Ceramic Webbook by NIST, all sorts of useful definitions and illustrations
• Atkins Physical Chemistry Website - website for the 7th edition with some extra tools & information
• Atkins Physical Chemistry Website - website for the 8th edition
• The Science of Champagne Bubbles (L16) - Chem. Soc. Rev. article
• Entropy, Disorder and Life (L10) - by John Pieper

Historical Figures in Physical Chemistry:

• Robert Boyle - Boyle's Law, Ideal Gases
• Jacques Charles - Charles' Law, Ideal Gases, Hot Air Balloons!
• John Dalton - Atomic Theory, Partial Pressures, Laws of Definite and Multiple Proportions
• James Clerk Maxwell - Electromagnetic Theory (Maxwell's equ'ns), Statistical Distributions in Gases
• Ludwig Boltzmann - Statistical Mechanics
• J.D. van der Waals - van der Waals interactions, general equation of state for gases
• Josiah Willard Gibbs - Gibbs energy, phase rule