Using Mathcad in Physical Chemistry - Calculus©
Theresa Julia Zielinski Department of Chemistry, Medical Technology, and Physics Monmouth University West Long Branch, NJ 07764-1898 United States mail to: tzielins@monmouth.edu
R. D. Poshusta Department of Chemistry Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-4630 United States mail to: poshustr@mail.wsu.edu
Abstract
This set of Mathcad documents provides an overview of some fundamental calculus operations required of physical chemistry students. There is an introduction to taking derivatives and integrals in Part 1 and Part 2. Part 3 focus on preparing surface and contour plots, which can lead to discussions of partial derivatives. Part 4 provides an introduction to the Runga-Kutta method for solving differential equations. Each document has exercises to enable students to practice the techniques and later use them for preparing homework during the course. These documents require Mathcad 12 or higher. The documents presented here build on concepts learned by working through the Basics collection of documents.
Keywords
Audiences: Upper-Division Undergraduate Pedagogies: Computer-Based Learning Domains: Analytical Chemistry, Laboratory Instruction, Physical Chemistry Topics: Chemometrics, Mathematics / Symbolic Mathematics
Documents
File Name Description Software Type Software Version calc1_12.mcd Part 1: Derivatives Mathcad 12 calc2_12.mcd Part 2: Integrals Mathcad 12 2dplot_12.mcd Part 3: Surface & Contour Plots Mathcad 12 diffequ_12.mcd Part 4: Solving Differential Equations Mathcad 12 calc1_12.pdf Part 1: Derivates (Read-Only) calc2_12.pdf Part 2: Integrals (Read-Only) 2dplot_12.pdf Part 3: Surface Contour Plots (Read-Only) diffequ_12.pdf Part 4: Solving Differential Equations (Read-Only)
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©Copyright Theresa Julia Zielinski and Ron D. Poshusta, 2006. All rights reserved. You are welcome to use this document in your own classes but commercial use is not allowed without the permission of the author.