Thursday, March 5, 2020
Organic Chemistry Tutor - My Schrodinger Equation For Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry Tutor - My Schrodinger Equation For Organic ChemistryA few months ago I started taking a science course in college with an Organic Chemistry tutor. We would be studying and do labs together each week. My motivation was that I wanted to learn how to make a solid, chemical, and/or biological connection between chemical compounds.The Organic Chemistry tutor, whose last name I forgot, taught quite a bit of chemistry and with his teaching style, I knew he could help me develop a solid and cohesive concept. From the very beginning of our first lab he introduced me to differential equations. For those of you who aren't familiar with them, they are similar to what is found in algebra, but instead of using numbers and shapes to represent things, they are the variables representing physical states of matter.He had me start by figuring out my own Schrodinger equation. The first step was to figure out my own Schrodinger equation. This equation is one of the most important equat ions in science, that is how all chemical reactions and the elements in our bodies are created. Any chemist knows this equation and will know why I chose it as my first one.To find my own Schrodinger equation, I simply replaced any number or shape with anything that represented the properties of matter. I figured out what some of the items that fit most closely to my physical states looked like, and then I substituted them for some of the electrons that were part of my molecule.It took a while to get used to different variables and having to figure out how to combine them in the right way so they can give me the exact value I wanted, but the concepts of how to connect and create a chemical bond were being introduced to me everyday. And as the semester continued, I would discover more connections between molecules and physical states, to different types of compounds, and I would get the occasional chemical reaction to occur.I had no idea how to put my newly developed knowledge into p ractice, but I was determined to. So, my Organic Chemistry tutor came up with a good way to measure my progress in the lab, he used a light bulb to show me which end of the lab where I stood. I was happy to see that I was getting closer to the end of the lab, and I knew I would soon have a chance to do the experiment my school and teacher had told me to do. But first, I had to find a way to test how well I was doing.So, I tested my time in the lab and discovered that I was the only one in the class who knew that experiment. Well, as the semester went on I began to notice that everyone else in the class was trying to run their experiments and making progress, so I began to follow along.
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