Resources tagged with: Chemistry
There are 67 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Chemistry, you may find related items under Cross-curricular contexts.
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A Question of Scale
Use your skill and knowledge to place various scientific lengths in order of size. Can you judge the length of objects with sizes ranging from 1 Angstrom to 1 million km with no wrong attempts?
Blood Buffers
Investigate the mathematics behind blood buffers and derive the form of a titration curve.
Real-life Equations
Here are several equations from real life. Can you work out which measurements are possible from each equation?
Stats Statements
Are these statistical statements sometimes, always or never true? Or it is impossible to say?
Big and Small Numbers in Chemistry
Get some practice using big and small numbers in chemistry.
Maths in the Undergraduate Physical Sciences
An article about the kind of maths a first year undergraduate in physics, engineering and other physical sciences courses might encounter. The aim is to highlight the link between particular maths topics (e.g. complex numbers) and their applications.
Inspect Your Gadgets
Read about the mathematics behind the measuring devices used in quantitative chemistry
Stereoisomers
Put your visualisation skills to the test by seeing which of these molecules can be rotated onto each other.
Clear as Crystal
Unearth the beautiful mathematics of symmetry whilst investigating the properties of crystal lattices
Reaction Rates!
Fancy learning a bit more about rates of reaction, but don't know where to look? Come inside and find out more...
The Power of Dimensional Analysis
An introduction to a useful tool to check the validity of an equation.
Diamonds Aren't Forever
Ever wondered what it would be like to vaporise a diamond? Find out inside...
CSI: Chemical Scene Investigation
There has been a murder on the Stevenson estate. Use your analytical chemistry skills to assess the crime scene and identify the cause of death...
Spectrometry Detective
From the atomic masses recorded in a mass spectrometry analysis can you deduce the possible form of these compounds?
Gassy Information
Do each of these scenarios allow you fully to deduce the required facts about the reactants?
Ideal Axes
Explore how can changing the axes for a plot of an equation can lead to different shaped graphs emerging
Coordinated Crystals
Explore the lattice and vector structure of this crystal.
Reductant Ratios
What does the empirical formula of this mixture of iron oxides tell you about its consituents?
The Real Hydrogen Atom
Dip your toe into the world of quantum mechanics by looking at the Schrodinger equation for hydrogen atoms
Molecular Sequencer
Investigate the molecular masses in this sequence of molecules and deduce which molecule has been analysed in the mass spectrometer.
Heavy Hydrocarbons
Explore the distribution of molecular masses for various hydrocarbons
Cobalt Decay
Investigate the effects of the half-lifes of the isotopes of cobalt on the mass of a mystery lump of the element.
Striking Gold
Investigate some of the issues raised by Geiger and Marsden's famous scattering experiment in which they fired alpha particles at a sheet of gold.
Constantly Changing
Many physical constants are only known to a certain accuracy. Explore the numerical error bounds in the mass of water and its constituents.
Lennard Jones Potential
Investigate why the Lennard-Jones potential gives a good approximate explanation for the behaviour of atoms at close ranges
Approximately Certain
Estimate these curious quantities sufficiently accurately that you can rank them in order of size
Big and Small Numbers in Physics
Work out the numerical values for these physical quantities.
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Reaction Types
Explore the rates of growth of the sorts of simple polynomials often used in mathematical modelling.
Bond Angles
Think about the bond angles occurring in a simple tetrahedral molecule and ammonia.
Extreme Dissociation
In this question we push the pH formula to its theoretical limits.
Exact Dilutions
Which exact dilution ratios can you make using only 2 dilutions?
Investigating the Dilution Series
Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
Dilution Series Calculator
Which dilutions can you make using 10ml pipettes and 100ml measuring cylinders?
Catalyse That!
Can you work out how to produce the right amount of chemical in a temperature-dependent reaction?
Mixed up Mixture
Can you fill in the mixed up numbers in this dilution calculation?
Reaction Rates
Explore the possibilities for reaction rates versus concentrations with this non-linear differential equation
Mathematical Issues for Chemists
A brief outline of the mathematical issues faced by chemistry students.
A Method of Defining Coefficients in the Equations of Chemical Reactions
A simple method of defining the coefficients in the equations of chemical reactions with the help of a system of linear algebraic equations.