"More Than You Wanted to Know About Photons”

A breezy blog post about photons that makes me realize I need to learn more quantum physics.

Thanks, Chad Orzel! @orzelc

#Chemistry #PChem #QuantumPhysics

https://chadorzel.substack.com/p/more-than-you-wanted-to-know-about

@zleap "the only useful lisp" ;p. Now I am thinking about what I said about needing to use the unique attributes of the fediverse. While the fediverse has a unique culture, multiple unique cultures, I was just thinking about this technical idea regarding federating and defederating servers.

Imagine the #pchem tag. At large, you might get a lot of PhD positions. But you could have a classroom server federating only with introductory materials at first, then defederate and federate with 2nd year

"Everyone knows that heat can produce motion"

#Carnot still believed in caloric theory (where heat is a fluid). His one-and-only book (1824) was not an initial success, but #Clausius knew of it some 40 years later prior to formalizing the concept of #entropy.

I tried to see if and how Carnot found the efficiency equation eta = 1-Tc/Th. Not so clear to me, although he does talk about the trends. Does someone know?

#thermodynamics #chemistry #physics #pchem

#Atkins 12th edition of Physical #Chemistry is here! 🤦‍♂️

#books #pchem #publisher

#GPT4 nailed many of my #pchem questions today but it still disappoints when it comes to simple counting tasks.

#chemiverse #chemistry

I told my PChem (Quantum) class that it is perfectly fine for them to use online integrators like WolframAlpha . Many looked surprised and I was surprised about them being surprised. It's 2023, we don't use log tables etc. From a chemistry perspective calculating a complicated integral with paper&pencil seems like wasted time. Identifying integrals of odd fcts etc is a different story. How do you feel about this?

#chemiverse #pchem #symbolicmath #college #calculus #chemistry #teaching

Oh the confusion!

S. P. Thompson wrote a biography of Thomson=Kelvin and then there is D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and electron discoverer J. J. Thomson. And thermodynamics' Count Rumford who was born Benjamin Thompson.

#Thomson #Thompson #Chemistry #Kelvin #LordKelvin #ChemToots #teaching #thermodynamics #pchem #PhysicalChemistry

Hi all! On here trying to stay connected as ppl leave the bird app, but also to expand my network.

Here for #chemistry #pchem #instrumental #genchem #CUREs #POGIL #PBL #chemed #STEMEducation #birdphotography #assessment and lamenting that I don’t read enough.