Advisor Wen Li standing next to PhD candidate Sulaiman Abubakar in Schaap Hall
Fantastic fourth year talk from Sulaiman Abubakar, of the Li Lab, on: Phase-Resolved Attoclock" at #wsuchemistry this afternoon. #NextStopPhD #ChemSky #pchem
Dr. Elizabeth O. Odewale holding a bouquet of flowers after successfully defending her thesis
A screenshot of Dr. Elizabeth O. Odewale’s PhD presentation
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Elizabeth O. Odewale! Elizabeth successfully defended her dissertation: "Controlling Cavity-Confined Light-Matter Interactions in Emerging Optoelectronic” at #wsuchemistry. #PhDdone #ChemSky #pchem
Publication Alert 🚨
Gyanu P. Kafle and Zhenfei Liu’s paper on phonon-assisted photoluminescence in bilayer MoS2 is in the publication Physical Review B. #wsuchemistry #pchem #ChemSky
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Only a few days left to submit an abstract to the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education! Abstract deadline is 1 March. Come give a talk in the Engaging Students in Physical Chemistry symposium or any of the other great symposia. #bcce #pchem #chemsky #chemchat 1/2
As usual, we are running the Engaging Students in Physical Chemistry symposium at this summer's Biennial Conference on Chemical Education.
Abstracts are due 1 March. We hope you can join us! #chemsky #chemchat #pchem 🧪
PhD candidate Amos Afugu standing next to advisor Zhenfei Liu in Schaap Hall
PhD candidate Amos Afugu speaking in Schaap Hall
The fourth year talk is a milestone in a PhD candidate’s research focus and today, Amos Afugu, of the Liu Lab, gave his on: “Quasiparticle Electronic Structure of Molecular Systems and Their Interfaces.” Good job, Amos! #wsuchemistry #pchem #ChemSky #NextStopPhD
Graduate student Hackim Musah standing next to advisor Wen Li by Schaap Hall
Hackim Musah, of the Li Lab, gave the first seminar of 2026. His 4th year talk was on “Probing Long-Lived Carrier Dynamics in Perovskite Nanomaterials.” Great talk, Hackim! #wsuchemistry #ChemSky #pchem #graduateresearch
Graduate research spotlight 🚀
David Gray is presenting:
“Reframing Gravitational Lensing: A Spacetime Approach to Light Propagation in Perturbed Cosmologies.”
🗓️ 11/13 @ 4:30PM | 📍 SLH 3
Come see how our grad researchers are exploring the universe—one lens at a time. ✨
#UNRScience #GradTalks #PChem
Sign up for free at thermo-tutor.qwyzzee.com and get instant access to 400 questions, hints, and answers. Plus try our AI grading and follow-up questions 🔥
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Painting of a young James Joule (Science Museum Group Collection). Source: https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/james-joule
James Prescott Joule died on this day in 1889. He measured how motion turns into heat and helped define the first law of thermodynamics. His name became the unit of energy.
#PChem #Joule #Thermodynamics #Chemistry #Physics
What is the fundamental equation of thermodynamics, and where does it come from?
#thermodynamics #pchem #chemistry #physics #studyhelp
Carnot cycles now as live web app 🔥
Drag sliders to see how temperature & volume affect the cycle. Works on any device, no installation needed. Try it:
thermoscripts-carnot.streamlit.app
#thermodynamics #pchem #chemistry #physics
Plot Carnot cycles with this simple MATLAB script!
Hot (red) and cold (blue) isotherms plus two adiabats (black) form a closed cycle. Change T's, V's, gamma ... most cycles look quite skinny 🌙🔥
github.com/osteinbock/t...
#thermodynamics #pchem #physics #engineering
Entropy explained in less than 1 minute
#thermodynamics #pchem #chemistry #Boltzmann
Another fascinating and useful thermodynamic quantity: the compressibility kappa. Unlike many other partial derivatives in thermo, this one has a direct intuitive meaning ... how much does volume drop when you increase pressure?
#thermodynamics #pchem #ChemE #physics #studyhelp
The volumetric expansion coefficient α is a quantity relevant to many real-world applications. It also appears in
(∂U/∂T)p = Cv + πT α V,
where πT is the internal pressure and Cv the heat capacity at const V.
#thermodynamics #pchem #ChemE #physics #studyhelp
Internal pressure is the key to quantifying the invisible forces between molecules. 🧪
#thermodynamics #pchem #ChemE #physics #studyhelp
First thermo exam coming up? Try this drill to master partial derivatives: Euler’s chain rule meets the ideal gas law.
#thermodynamics #pchem #chemistry #physics #chemicalengineering #studytips
Understanding the equation for isothermal, reversible expansion work. A short ThermoTutor demo.
#PChem #Thermodynamics #GasLaws #LearnSmarter #Chemistry
During adiabatic expansion, peeVee's internal energy is going down, but should he really be sweating or shivering?
#thermodynamics #pchem #chemistry #physics #studyhelp
Thermochemistry tells you whether processes are endothermic 🥶 (ΔH>0) or exothermic (ΔH<0) 💥
#thermodynamics #pchem #chemistry #studygram #HessLaw
It's not about the journey, it's about the destination... at least for state functions! 🏔
#thermodynamics #pchem #chemistry #studyhelp
Say hi to our mascots ... happy peeVee and grumpy nRT
#thermodynamics #pchem #chemistry #physics #studyhelp
ThermoTutor demo explaining why the internal energy of ideal gases depends only on T and not on p or V.
#PChem #Thermodynamics #GasLaws #LearnSmarter #Chemistry
Some thoughts on grading ... if you want to see how ThermoTutor is doing it, check out thermo-tutor.qwyzzee.com
#HigherEd #Chemistry #STEM #college #thermodynamics #pchem
Count Rumford (aka Benjamin Thompson) was one of the early pioneers of modern thermodynamics. He was a prolific scientist and inventor.
#thermodynamics #pchem #chemistry #physics #StudyHelp
Why does a spray can feel cold when you use it? Adiabatic expansion! 💨 It does work as it expands, and with no heat transfer, its temperature has to drop. Often, q=0 is a valid approximation if the process is fast compared to the heat exchange.
#Thermodynamics #PChem #Chemistry
Blessed Oguh standing next to advisor Wen Li in Schaap Hall
#NextStopPhD for Blessed Oguh, of the Li Group at #wsuchemistry. Blessed gave his fourth year talk on: "Advancing Ultrafast Science with Camera-Based Time Resolved Imaging Techniques.” Congratulations on this milestone! #pchem #attosecond #ChemSky
