Mathematics for Chemists

• Chemical Calculations by Paul Yates whose article appeared in the November 2012 issue of the magazine published by RSC, UK.
• Schaum’s Outline Series on Basic Mathematics

Web Links:

• Equation of a straight line I (Maths is Fun)
• Equation of straight line II (November 2012 Education in Chemistry)
• Gradients and Rates of Change (Paul aYates)
• Maths for Chemists (by Paul Yates from RSC)
• Mathematics Education (teaching modelling in mathematics)
• Pure Math Canada (good website for several topics)
• Trigonometry and Chemistry (Paul Yates)

Redox Potential

Videos

• Potential Difference
• Voltaic Cell

Weblinks

• Chemguide on redox potential

Climate Change References

• America’s first climate refugees
• Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels for the last 500 million years
• Chemistry in the stratosphere and upper atmosphere
• Climate Change Knowledge Portal
• Climate change ‘will make hundreds of millions homeless
• CO2 Absorption of IR Radiated by the Earth, Analysis of the Upper Atmosphere
• Carbon dioxide sequestration in deep-sea basalt
• Carbon dioxide passes symbolic mark
• Climate change: human disaster looms, claims new research

• Decades of temperature change where you live mapped

• Effects of water and nitrogen dioxide on the stratospheric ozone shield
• Global carbon dioxide in atmosphere passes milestone level
• Guardian sustainable business

• How Many Gigatons of Carbon Dioxide? The Information is Beautiful guide to Doha

• Importance of carbon dioxide physiological forcing to future climate change

• Irreversible climate change due to carbon  dioxide emissions

• Potential for reduced methane and carbon dioxide emissions from livestock and pasture management in the tropics

• Prince Charles attacks global warming sceptics
• Scientists call for action to tackle CO2 levels
• Sherwood Rowland – Nobel lecture in chemistry
• Sustainability 24
• Tar sands exploitation would mean game over for climate, warns leading scientist
• THE CATASTROPHIST
• The Environmental Chemistry of Trace Atmospheric Gases
• The composition of the atmosphere
• Why worrying about food miles is missing the point?
• 97% global warming consensus meets resistance from scientific denialism

Videos

• TED – James Hansen
• Bristol University – Paul Valdes
• University of California – Sherwood Rowland

• Climate Deniers in Congress

Personal Investigation for Salters A2

Determination of rate of starch hydrolysis by alpha-amylase

1. A quantitative starch–iodine method for measuring alpha-amylase and glucoamylase activities

2. Use of Dinitrosalicylic Acid Reagent for Determination of Reducing Sugar

3.  Kinetic Analysis of Amylase Using Quantitative Benedict’s and Iodine Starch Reagents

Determination of Vitamin C content in fruit juices

1. A Student Laboratory Experiment Based on the Vitamin C Clock Reaction
2. Ascorbic Acid Determination in Natural Orange Juice
3. Quantitative Microscale Determination of Vitamin C

4. The determination of vitamin C as a means of teaching iodimetry.

    

Salters A2 Revision Material

• What’s in a medicine 1
• What’s in a medicine 2
• The material revolution
• The thread of life
• Steel story
• Agriculture and Industry
• Past papers OCR B, OCR A, CIE, Pre-U
• Handwritten notes

General

1. The Chemical History of A Candle, 1860