Welcome to Prof. Roussel's Chemistry 2720

Physical Chemistry I

• Course information
• Required prerequisite knowledge
• Tests and solutions
• Quizzes and solutions
• Assignments and solutions
• Fall 1995-Spring 1998 course materials: From the Fall of 1995 to the Spring of 1998, Chemistry 2720 was strictly a thermodynamics course. Some of the test and assignment questions may still be relevant, so feel free to look around.
• Other interesting course-related sites:
  • Absorption-type ammonia refrigerators: This site explains in considerable detail the technology behind propane (and similar) refrigerators.
  • Calorimetry: The Universal Detector: This is a corporate site, but it contains a lot of useful tutorial material on calorimetry.
  • CODATA: The Committee on Data for Science and Technology of the International Council of Scientific Unions. Among other things, CODATA maintains a list of agreed values of thermodynamic properties.
  • International Temperature Scale (1990) (ITS-90): If you're curious about how serious thermodynamicists calibrate thermometers, this is the place to go.
  • Museum of Unworkable Devices: This site discusses various kinds of perpetual motion machines.
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)
    • NIST Chemistry WebBook: This is a searchable database of thermodynamic properties.
    • Physical Reference Data (fundamental physical constants, spectroscopic data, etc.)
  • University of York Department of Chemistry Student Databook: This site contains a lot of useful data, both for this course and for other chemistry and physics courses you might take.

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