Recent content by Zoroaster

Thanks a lot guys, excellent advice. I've ordered the Pauling book and will have a look at the other ones in the library.

Hi all, I am a grad student with a Physics BSc. For various reasons, I have never actually done a basic pure chemistry course, even at high school level. Naturally, I have come across many concepts from chemistry in my courses, but I lack the fundamental overview of the field, and I am very...

Much clearer now, thanks a lot guys!

Thanks for your answer, good to know that my analogy works at least:) However, I obviously still don't understand the why wavelength limits resolution, so I hope you can elaborate a bit. When sketching up a diagram of the pole situation, I can't for the life of me understand why the...

Hi! This might very well be a silly question. In many courses I've been presented as an obvious fact that it won't work to use (e.g.) light with a wavelength larger (at least, not much larger) than the thing you want to resolve. Why is this exactly? Thinking of photons I could find no...

Thanks!

Hello everyone I am trying to do an experiment involving a W bulb, in which I am completely dependent of knowing the temperature-resistivity relation of Tungsten in the temperature range 300 - 2500 K. The CRC handbook has some tables, but they have few data points and correlate poorly with...

Thanks guys. Much appreciated!

Thanks for your help! Enlightening and encouraging answers. Just to clarify - the course I am planning to take is not freshman chemistry, but a chemical oceanography course that has freshman chem as a prerequisite (which it is possible to lure ones way around as an exchange student..). I'm...

Hello all I am a physics student who just finished the second year of my BS. I am looking to get into oceanography, and therefore I am considering taking (among others) a course in chemical oceanography next semester. A two-semester freshman chemistry course is a formal prerequisite to the...