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(Physical Chemistry)
Approaches
Top down Chemical
(Traditional/Analytical/Historical Kinetics
Approach)
Begin with things we observe in the
world/laboratory
Examine how those observables relate to
the underlying structure of matter
Bottom up (Synthetic/Molecular QuantumTheory/Spectroscopy
Approach)
Consider the underlying structure of matter
Derive observables
Statistical
Thermodynamics SpecialTopics
Certain variables in
thermodynamics are
hard to measure
experimentally such
as entropy
Maxwell relations
provide a way to
exchange variables
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