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Interactive explorations in this table are color coded to indicate whether Water or Sun topics.

Chapter number:Title/number of pages Content   Explorations Chapter Problem
Preface/8  
Table of Contents/12
1. The Hydrologic Cycle: Compartments and Flow Rates /46 Compartmental view of the hydrosphere, first order flow rates, exponentials, logarithms, donor compartments  
 1.1 A Quantitative Study of a Compartmental System

1.2 Real Hydrologic Compartments Systems

 

Water as a Commodity: cost versus value in Coachella Valley
The Birth of a River: Narada Falls and Thermal Entropy/34 heat capacity, first law of thermodynamics, thermal entropy, microstate view of entropy    2.1 The Joule Effect

2.2 Determining Entropy, Temperature and Heat Capacity by Counting Microstates

The Nisqually River: a Source of Power After Leaving Mt. Rainier National Park
3. Jokuhlaups and Structural Entropy/58 phase change, structural entropy, crystal structure, intro to the periodic table, phase diagrams  

3.1 Freezing Water in a Sealed Container

The Warming of Antarctica and the Larsen B Ice Shdelf

4. Dissolved Oxygen and Configurational Entropy/41 configurational entropy, second law of thermodynamics, equation of state, gas pressure, volumetric titrations   4.1 Measuring Dissolved Oxygen in the Nisqually River by the Winkler Method: an introduction to volumetric analysis Dissolved Oxygen and Tac-o-Be
5. Glacial Flour and Dissolved Solids /40 aqueous ionic equilibria, more crystal structure, solution configurational entropy     Selenium, Boron and the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge
6. Acid/Base Reactions in Water/89 Bronsted view of acids/bases, logC diagram method, calculating titration curves, buffers, activity coefficients   6.1 Determination of the Acid/Base Content of Selected Household Chemicals and Foods Iron Mountain Acid Mine Drainage: an Exercise in Stoichiometry and Titrimetry
7. Carbon Dioxide and Open Systems/39 logC digrams of open systems, alkalinity, pH based solubility
7.1 Determination of the Alkalinity of the Nisqually River at Its Terminus in Puget Sound by Gran Titration  
8. Puget Sound Sediments:Oxidation and Reduction/61 half reactions, electrode potential, Ohm’s Law, Gibbs free energy, enthalpy, Nernst equation, predominant area diagrams   8.1  Separable Half Reaction: fact or fiction?

 

8.2 Analysis of Trace Amounts of Cadmium, Copper, Lead and Zinc in Puget Sound Using Square Wave Voltammetry

8.3 Predominant Area Diagram for Sulfur

8.4 Analysis of Trace Amounts of Cadmium, Copper,Lead and Zinc in Puget Sound Using Square Wave Voltammetry

 

Sediment Chemistry in Puget Sound
9. Waves/33 sine/cosine functions, intro to derivatives, the Schrodinger equation   9.1   The Photoelectric Effect: does light act like it is lumps? The Davisson-Germer Experiment and Matter Waves
10. The Sun/51 atomic orbitals, term symbols, electronic structure of atoms The Spectra of Corona Emissions

 

10.1 The Balmer Spectrum

Quantifying the Periodic Table: Moseley’s Table
11. Solar Wind, the Magnetosphere and the Upper Atmosphere/52 introduction to electricity and magnetism, molecular orbital theory, vibrational quantization   11.1 J. J. Thomson’s Measurement of e/m of the Electron The TIMED Satellite and the Upper Atmosphere
12. The Stratosphere/57 uv spectra of diatomic molecules, spectral bond energies, photon entropy, chemical kinetics, photochemistry, chemical kinetics of the stratosphere 1. Calculation of the Bond Energy of O2 from the Schumann-Runge  Bands                                       12.1 An Experimental Examination and Measurement of the Hartley Bands of Ozone and the Schoenbein Puzzle

12.2 Calculation of the Bond Energy of O2 from the Schumann-Runge  Bands

12.3 Modeling the Catalytic Decomposition of Ozone in the Stratosphere by Cl and NO

The Antarctica Ozone Hole

13. The Troposphere/68

hybridization, multi-atom molecular structures, global climate change  Calculating Radiative Efficiency, Radiative Forcing and Global Warming Potential for Halocarbons 13.1 Liquid Oxygen … the quantum mechanic rule breaker The 2000 NOAA Study of Houston Smog
Appendix A-1 Algebra/13  
Appendix A-2 Table of Thermodynamic Data/29
Appendix A-3 Calculus/6
Index/7