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An Experimental Approach to Teaching and Learning Elementary Statistical Mechanics

Frank B. Ellis

Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07012

David C. Ellis

Westfield, NJ 07090

Frank L. Lambert

Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 9004

J. Chem. Educ., 2008, 85 (9), p 1191

DOI: 10.1021/ed085p1191

Publication Date (Web): September 1, 2008

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History, Education, and Documentation

Abstract

Frank and David Ellis devised an apparatus that provides powerful visual support of elementary concepts in kinetics and equilibrium, including the role of entropy in equilibrium. However, the article’s discussion of entropy change was based on an older, classical description of entropy.

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Upper-Division Undergraduate

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Physical Chemistry

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Thermodynamics

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