Paul J. Gans

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bio	website	scholar.chem.nyu.edu
	location	New York, United States
	age	80
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I am a retired teacher of chemistry at the university level. My particular fields are thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. From being retired it is possible to infer that I'm one of the over-the-hill gang. One might be right about that, I'm the wrong person to ask.

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6	The number of degrees of freedom of a monatomic gas
4	What happens when you heat vodka in a microwave?
3	What is the deal with heat capacity?
3	What happens to 5 electrons on a sphere?
3	Can endergonic reactions occur outside of living organisms?

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+30	What is the deal with heat capacity?
+10	Where did Schrödinger solve the radiating problem of Bohr's model?
+10	Question about the proof that heat capacity goes to zero if temperature approaches $0K$
+10	Isothermal Gas Expansion, a Reversible or Irreversible process?

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40 thermodynamics × 33	7 heat × 3
13 statistical-mechanics × 11	7 atoms × 2
9 ideal-gas × 6	6 entropy × 6
8 homework × 5	6 terminology × 2
7 energy × 6	6 degrees-of-freedom

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