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Peer reviewedLie, G.C. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1981
Provides an alternative derivation of the Boltzmann distribution based on the minimization of the Helmholtz free energy. (CS)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Higher Education, Physical Sciences
Peer reviewedMcKee, C. S. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1981
Provides information concerning the Boltzmann distribution mentioning partition functions, spectroscopy, basic mathematics, and its relation to temperature distribution. (CS)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Higher Education, Physical Sciences
Peer reviewedRamani, K.; Ghodgaonkar, A. M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1981
Presents and discusses a procedure for estimating the dissociation energies of diatomic molecules by taking into account experimentally observable parameters. (CS)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Higher Education, Molecular Structure
Peer reviewedGarcia, Jose Miguel Gallego – Journal of Chemical Education, 1981
Provides sample output and describes a program for programmable calculators that determines the molecular parameters of any type of diatomic molecule. (CS)
Descriptors: Calculators, Chemistry, College Science, Computer Programs
Peer reviewedPacey, Philip D. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1981
Provides background material which relates to the concept of activation energy, fundamental in the study of chemical kinetics. Compares the related concepts of the Arrhenius activation energy, the activation energy at absolute zero, the enthalpy of activation, and the threshold energy. (CS)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Higher Education, Kinetics
Peer reviewedRybolt, Thomas R. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1981
Provides background information designed to aid a physical chemistry student in using the virial equation of state in deriving expressions for other thermodynamic properties, such as writing the Joule and Joule-Thomson coefficients in terms of virial expansions. (CS)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Higher Education, Physical Sciences
