My principal teaching responsibilities are in General Chemistry (Chem
121/122) and the physical chemistry sequence: Thermodynamics and Kinetics
(Chem 341) and Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy (Chem 342). I have also
taught a First-Year Seminar entitled Earth, Wind, and Fire: Chemistry and
Society (FYS 103), the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department's Junior/Senior
Seminar (Chem 372/472), and Topics in Advanced Physical Chemistry (Chem
403).
I am also involved in a campus-wide program to integrate use of symbolic
computing (such as the programs Maple or Mathematica) into
teaching. I have been using Maple in my physical chemistry courses,
both for constructing "scripts" to illustrate physical ideas such as the
van der Waals Equation of State or the Boltzmann Distribution of Speeds
in a Gas and for direct student use in solving complex problems.
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