ramakantgadhewal/course-notes

Course notes of STEM courses at the University of Washington (UW). Topics include chemical engineering, chemistry, and applied mathematics.

Course Notes

Introduction

This repository contains course notes that I have taken in science and engineering courses. Current topics include chemical engineering, chemistry, and applied mathematics.

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• Course Notes
  • Introduction
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Chemistry
  • Applied Mathematics

Chemical Engineering

Course	PDF	Topics and Description	Status
NME 220 Intro to Molecular and Nanoscale Principles	lecture	Molecular and nanoscale principles - scaling and transport properties, atomic theory and models, wave function in quantum mechanics, nanoscience and technology, electronic structures of molecules, molecular modes	✅
CHEM E 310 Mass and Energy Balances	lecture reading	Material and energy balances - units and process variables, material and energy balances of nonreactive and reactive processes, single- and multi-phase systems	✅
CHEM E 325 Energy and Entropy	lecture	Thermodynamics I - thermodynamic data, molecular interactions and equations of state, first and second law analysis, process efficiency, single and multi-component equilibrium	✅
CHEM E 326 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics	lecture	Thermodynamics II - thermodynamic relations, single- and multi-component phase equilibrium, fugacity-based equilibrium, phase equilibrium applications, chemical equilibrium	✅
CHEM E 330 Transport Process I	lecture	Basic transport - rate laws, transport coefficients, shell balance method, generalization to 3D Fluid mechanics - Navier-Stokes equation, top-down method, turbulence, dynamic similarity, dimensional analysis, Bernoulli analysis, microfluidics	✅
CHEM E 340 Transport Process II	lecture	Heat transfer - 1D conduction, 2D conduction, transient heat conduction, convection, boiling and condensation, heat exchangers, radiation	✅
CHEM E 455 Surface and Colloid Science Laboratory	[pdf]	Surface and colloid science	Sp22 in progress ⛏️
CHEM E 457 Principles of Molecular Engineering	[pdf]	Statistical mechanics Kinetics	Sp22 in progress ⛏️

Chemistry

Course	PDF	Topics and Description	Status
CHEM 155 Honors General Chemistry II	lecture	Physical chemistry - acid-base equilibria, solution equilibria, electrochemistry, kinetics, nuclear chemistry, quantum mechanics and atomic structure	✅
CHEM 165 Honors General Chemistry III	lecture	Organic chemistry - nomenclature, hydrocarbons, stereochemistry, reactivity, characterization Inorganic chemistry - electron counting, crystal field theory, spin states and geometry, reactions and catalytic cycles, bioinorganic chemistry Materials chemistry - structure, bonding, and electronic structure of solids	✅
CHEM 237 Organic Chemistry I	lecture	Organic chemistry - alkane, alkene, stereochemistry, cyclic compounds, alkyl halides, intermolecular forces	✅
CHEM 238 Organic Chemistry II	reading	Organic chemistry - alcohol, thiol, ether, sulfide, epoxide, glycol, alkyne, diene, benzene, transition metal catalysis, characterization techniques	✅
CHEM 455 Physical Chemistry	lecture	Quantum mechanics - postulates, particle in a box, finite potential well, barrier scattering, commutator, dimer model, vibrational and rotational spectroscopy, hydrogen atom, spin, many e- atoms, Hartree-Fock orbitals, chemical bonding	✅
High School Quantum Mechanics	semester 1 semester 2	Quantum mechanics - wave functions, time-independent schrodinger equation, formalism, quantum mechanics in 3D, identical particles	✅

Applied Mathematics

Course	PDF	Topics and Description	Status
AMATH 351 Intro to Differential Equations and Applications	lecture	Ordinary differential equations - 1st, 2nd order ODE with applications, systems of ODEs, Laplace transform	✅
AMATH 352 Applied Linear Algebra and Numerical Analysis	reading	Linear algebra - floating-point arithmetic, conditioning of problems, stability of algorithms, direct methods of solving linear systems, singular value decomposition	✅
AMATH 353 Partial Differential Equation and Waves	lecture	Partial differential equations - traveling waves, wave equation, d'Alembert's solution, standing waves, separation of variables, conservation laws	✅