Chemistry Page

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Here we have a couple solved problems in specific heats

Specific Heats Problem 1.      Specific Heats Problem 2.

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Here are presented a number of papers on how to do Stoichiometry
problems using Scheme, a system I concocted to solve word problems.
Together, the three papers cover a wide variety of stoichiometry problems
(from simple to difficult) and solve them in a systematic way that emphasizes
the conserved quantities in the before-and-after process (typically, reactants
vs products).

Stoichiometry Paper 1       Stoichiometry Paper 2

Stoichiometry Paper 3       Stoichiometry Paper 4

ChatGPT reveals how proficient it is as a chemistry professor when it
comments on my novel copper-plating experiment from over 50 years ago.
I'm not a chemist, so I need a real chemist to read it to evaluate it.

ChatGPT analyzes my novel copper-plating experiment.

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I Was a Teenage 'Chemist', and I was not the only one: Hobbyist Chemistry in the 1960s.
My interesting and embarrassing home-chemistry experiments of the 1960s.

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This paper demonstrates how to balance unbalanced chemical equations
by simple algebraic methods, though it is only guaranteed to work when
a unique solution is possible. And this is not always the case, because
sometimes the system is either over-determined or under-determined.

Balance unbalanced chemical equations.

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This paper discusses the conservation principles that underlie the theory
of ionization equilibrium problems and the theory behind R.I.C.E.

Ionization equilibrium problems.

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This paper is a review of the controvery around how to balance chemical equations, especially those that don't have unique solutions. Most of the technical references are from The Journal of Chemical Education from the last century. This paper is a bit out of date, and should be followed-up by a paper that tracks the controvery to current times, but, sorry, I can't do it.)

Balancing chemical equations--opening a can of worms.