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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?
Investigate the mathematics behind blood buffers and derive the form of a titration curve.
Here are several equations from real life. Can you work out which measurements are possible from each equation?
Are these statistical statements sometimes, always or never true? Or it is impossible to say?
Get some practice using big and small numbers in chemistry.
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.
Read about the mathematics behind the measuring devices used in quantitative chemistry
Put your visualisation skills to the test by seeing which of these molecules can be rotated onto each other.
Unearth the beautiful mathematics of symmetry whilst investigating the properties of crystal lattices
Fancy learning a bit more about rates of reaction, but don't know where to look? Come inside and find out more...
An introduction to a useful tool to check the validity of an equation.
Ever wondered what it would be like to vaporise a diamond? Find out inside...
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...
From the atomic masses recorded in a mass spectrometry analysis can you deduce the possible form of these compounds?
Do each of these scenarios allow you fully to deduce the required facts about the reactants?
Explore how can changing the axes for a plot of an equation can lead to different shaped graphs emerging
Explore the lattice and vector structure of this crystal.
What does the empirical formula of this mixture of iron oxides tell you about its consituents?
Dip your toe into the world of quantum mechanics by looking at the Schrodinger equation for hydrogen atoms
Investigate the molecular masses in this sequence of molecules and deduce which molecule has been analysed in the mass spectrometer.
Explore the distribution of molecular masses for various hydrocarbons
Investigate the effects of the half-lifes of the isotopes of cobalt on the mass of a mystery lump of the element.
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.
Many physical constants are only known to a certain accuracy. Explore the numerical error bounds in the mass of water and its constituents.
Investigate why the Lennard-Jones potential gives a good approximate explanation for the behaviour of atoms at close ranges
Estimate these curious quantities sufficiently accurately that you can rank them in order of size
Work out the numerical values for these physical quantities.
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Explore the rates of growth of the sorts of simple polynomials often used in mathematical modelling.
Think about the bond angles occurring in a simple tetrahedral molecule and ammonia.
In this question we push the pH formula to its theoretical limits.
Which exact dilution ratios can you make using only 2 dilutions?
Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
Which dilutions can you make using 10ml pipettes and 100ml measuring cylinders?
Can you work out how to produce the right amount of chemical in a temperature-dependent reaction?
Can you fill in the mixed up numbers in this dilution calculation?
Explore the possibilities for reaction rates versus concentrations with this non-linear differential equation
A brief outline of the mathematical issues faced by chemistry students.
A simple method of defining the coefficients in the equations of chemical reactions with the help of a system of linear algebraic equations.