"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

More Than You Wanted to Know About Photons

Gell-Mann Amnesia in action, but in a good way?

Counting Atoms

@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

#ChatGPT nailing microbiology final: https://bigthink.com/the-future/chatgpt-microbiology-quiz-aced/ #STEM #College #Eduction Still curious about ochem. I used ChatGPT to design some new questions for my #pchem final.
We gave ChatGPT a college-level microbiology quiz. It blew the quiz away.

ChatGPT's capabilities are astonishing. It demonstrated the ability to synthesize knowledge and apply it to complex word problems.

Big Think

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.