Re: Chemistry with calculus???
- From: "Androcles" <Engineer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:45:04 GMT
"Tony Sinclair" <no@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fu80t2553tlajup02n3oh558hj69t0v0tv@xxxxxxxxxx
I am retired, and I am trying to self-educate myself in areas where I
feel I am not informed. I do this by reading college texts on various
subjects.
In many physical and even social sciences, general textbooks are
divided into those for that employ calculus, and those that don't.
The former are usually meant for majors in the subject, or for
students with better preparation. I am comfortable with calculus, and
I find that the non-calculus books are not only less deep, but are
often harder to understand when they try to explain concepts or derive
results without using calculus.
Long story short, I had no trouble finding introductory physics and
economics texts that use calculus, but I'm having a very hard time
finding an introductory chemistry textbook that does. Can someone
recommend calculus-based chemistry texts suitable for a student who
has, say, a year of calculus and physics, but is new to chemistry, or
are they ALL just based on algebra? Thank you.
Ouch...
Well, if you feel there is a demand, and since you are retired,
why not write one?
It is difficult for me to imagine what it might lead to, rates
of reaction to equilibrium perhaps...
Basic chemistry really reduces to addition in the general form
2H2 + O2 --> 2(H2O) and then remembering a host of
molecules, the periodic table and which elements are
reactive according to their valency. Sodium, Fluorine,
Chlorine are nasty, the noble gases are nice.
Biochemistry is organic chemistry and that means carbon for
its high valency. Bucky balls, TNT and glucose are geometry.
The tough stuff is protein, DNA, RNA, the chemistry of life
with its enzymes (catalysts); polymers are relatively simple by
comparison.
I'll be shot to pieces for that simplification, but then I do not
claim to be a chemist.
I'm just trying to see what use calculus would be and since
I don't see it maybe that's why not much has been written
about it.
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