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Chem 221 is designed to help students to understand the link between macroscopic thermodynamic measureables (properties) and the molecular level behaviors of the materials.  This is a relatively non-traditional way of approaching the topics involved and as such, no one text book covers the material the way we want to cover it here at Queen's.  I will attempt to use the text book as much as possible in my course discussions but I will need to resort to other sources or personal notes from time to time to fill in the gaps.

I will be reviewing and revising these notes as we go this year so don't type them out in advance or if you do, at least check for revisions after you have done the typing. These are not professionally edited and/or produced notes and as such are not guaranteed to be free from typos, nor can I even guarantee them to be factually correct 100% of the time.  However, I will do my best to keep notes that are useful as a guide through the material and as such, part of that effort will involve your notifying me of any points in the notes that are confusing or incorrect.  I will always try to fix any such reported weakness in these notes as soon as possible as you report them.

Thanks,

Michael Mombourquette

P.S.  It has come to my attention that those who use web browsers FireFox, Opera, or Safari  are not getting the Greek letters in my notes printed out properly.  I am in fact using standard html and the font titled Symbol, which is default on all windows computers.  Thus, a 'D' in 'times-new-roman' (my default font) translates into a Delta Δ in 'symbol'.  Since these browsers don't seem to handle this font properly, it just displays the D.  I will try to fix all those 'symbol' characters using the newer method of defining such characters (unicode).  This may take some time, however.  Until then, my solution is to suggest that you switch to using Internet explorer or Google Chrome, which  will work properly for you.  If you are on a Mac or a Linux system, then you will have to find and download a font called symbol, or print the files from a windows' machine.

UPDATE:  I have converted as many of those "symbol" font characters to the newer 'unicode' character definitions as I could find.  These do work in FireFox, Opera and Safari.  Hopefully, I found them all and hopefully, this will work on a MAC or Linux machine now. If you find any more characters that don't show up properly in these browsers, let me know please.

Thanks for your patience.

Michael



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07-Apr-2010