Courses

CHM 37301 is a survey course in Physical Chemistry for life science students. The course covers topics in Thermodynamics, Kinetics, Statistical Mechanics, and Quantum Mechanics, with an emphasis on life-science examples and applications. Click here to download the course textbook.

CHM 37301 is the lab component of the Purdue Chemistry Department's two-semester undergraduate Physical Chemistry course. The course combines in-lab experiments with online assignments that guide students through the analysis of their experimental data, and introduce basic Python programming skills along the way. See also the second-semester sister course CHM 37401

Molecular Spectroscopy is a graduate course at Purdue (CHM 67600) that explores the physical and chemical origins of molecular optical spectroscopies such as absorption, emission, pump-probe, hole burning, and two-dimensional spectroscopy. Lectures are paired with interactive molecular dynamics simulations and step-by-step guided programming assignments (Python language) in which students learn about Maxwell's and Newton's equations, Fourier transforms, linear and nonlinear response, line broadening mechanisms, and the principles of quantum mechanics.

• Click here for lecture notes from the most recent year.
• Click here for a PDF copy of the textbook.
• Click here to go to the course nanoHUB page, which hosts interactive Python learning modules and exercises.