Home >> Science >> Chemistry >> Physical


  Academia and Institutes
Databases
  Publications
Research Groups
  Software

  Superconductors
  Thermodynamics
   


Physical Chemistry is the united science of physics, chemistry, thermodynamics, and quantum mechanics which functions to provide molecular-level interpretations of observed macroscopical phenomena. Often, changes inside temperature, pressure, volume, heat, & function of systems in the solid, liquid, & or even flatulence phase come correlated to minute minute & molecular interactions. Virtually all cite Willard Gibbs when the founder of physical chemistry as stemming from either his 1876 paper: “On a Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances�, wherein such cornerstones when free energy, chemical potential, and phase rule were developed.

Modern physical chemistry is firmly grounded upon natural philosophy. Crucial areas of survey include chemical thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, electrochemistry, surface and solid state chemistry, and spectroscopy. Physical chemistry is besides fundamental to modern materials science.

Important physical chemists

Svante Arrhenius Richard Bernstein E.J. Bowen Peter Debye Manfred Eigen Richard R. Ernst William Giauque J.W. Gibbs Fritz Haber Dudley R. Herschbach Gerhard Herzberg Jaroslav Heyrovský Cyril Norman Hinshelwood J.H. van 't Hoff Roald Hoffmann Erich Hückel Friedrich Kohlrausch Irving Langmuir Yuan T. Lee Gilbert N. Lewis Frederick Lindemann Rudolph A. Marcus Robert S. Mulliken Walther Nernst Lars Onsager Wilhelm Ostwald Linus Pauling John Charles Polanyi Michael Polanyi Stuart A. Rice E. Bright Wilson Richard N. Zare Ahmed H. Zewail

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Chemical Physics
Interests can be broadly classified into five general areas: energy deposition, surface science, biological applications, properties of condensed matter and properties of isolated atoms and molecules.

An Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
Answers the questions, 1. What is a Wave Function? and 2. What is an Orbital?

Charles Evans and Associates
A tutorial on Rutherford backscattering.

Gas Research Institute
University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, The University of Texas at Austin, and SRI International provides reaction mechanism and thermochemical data of selected small molecules (e.g. 1-3 heavy atoms) and radicals, e.g. CN(g). Also input files for the Sandia National Laboratory Chemkin-II programs.

International Symposium on Solubility Phenomena
Eighth International Symposium on Solubility Phenomena.

Nuclear Data Dissemination Home Page
Wide variety of information relating to nuclear structure and decay.

Mathtrek Systems - EQS4WIN
PC-Windows software to assist in the calculation of equilibrium concentrations for five compounds and two elements (demonstration version.) Both Contains the JANAF thermochemical database. Also links to related tutorials.

Physical Chemistry 1, Lund University
Description of research at the division of Physical Chemistry 1. Areas of research include surface and colloid science.

A list at Ohio Supercomputer Centre
Links to pages which may be of interest to computational chemists.

Lanthanide Luminescence
Research on lanthanide luminescence, chemiluminescence and coordination chemistry.


Science: Chemistry: Computational
Science: Chemistry: Electrochemistry
Science: Technology: Materials




© 2005 GeneralAnswers.org