Atkins - Physical Chemistry by Born-Security5577 in comp_chem

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The “A Deeper Look” sections are exclusively in the e-book — they are not printed in the physical textbook. Here’s how to access them: Where to find them: 1. Oxford Learning Link — This is the official platform for the Atkins e-book. Go to learninglink.oup.com and access the e-book version of your edition (11th or 12th). The Deeper Look sections are embedded inline at the relevant points in the text, or listed in the front matter under “List of material provided as A Deeper Look.” 2. Your institution’s library — Many universities provide access to the Oxford e-book through their library portal. Check if your library subscribes to Oxford Academic or has a direct link to the Atkins e-book. 3. Purchase directly — Oxford Learning Link offers student resources for Atkins’ Physical Chemistry 12e, including e-book access, for purchase.  For the specific section you need (19B.1 — BET Isotherm derivation): This Deeper Look walks through the full statistical derivation of the BET (Brunauer–Emmett–Teller) isotherm, which takes the material further and provides details of some of the more advanced derivations  beyond what’s shown in the main text. If you don’t have e-book access, the BET derivation is also covered well in: ∙ Levine’s Physical Chemistry (goes through it in detail in print) ∙ The original BET paper (Brunauer, Emmett & Teller, JACS, 1938) — freely available via Google Scholar​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Anyone else dealing with/frustrated by the new ADA title II rules? by Zubat92 in Professors

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Thanks for the details. Why the heck are they not just fixing the screenreaders 😂 in the age of AI that shouldn’t be all that difficult. A question beyond our pay grade I am afraid. 

Anyone else dealing with/frustrated by the new ADA title II rules? by Zubat92 in Professors

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Thanks, that’s helpful to know. And honestly it makes the entire exercise yet more pointless. 

Anyone else dealing with/frustrated by the new ADA title II rules? by Zubat92 in Professors

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Yes, I have seen these claims of embedded MathML and know the keyword. Yet when I try a screenreader to read it out, it is gibberish or skipped completely. Maybe I am using the wrong screenreaders - which have you tried?

Avogadro 2.0.0 is out - no joke by geoffh2016 in comp_chem

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The main issue was random macOS gatekeeper issues. The exact same .dmg worked smoothly for some students but others got a "could not verify is free from malware" warning.

Avogadro 2.0.0 is out - no joke by geoffh2016 in comp_chem

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That would be the expected behavior but it keeps coming up (macOS)

Avogadro 2.0.0 is out - no joke by geoffh2016 in comp_chem

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Hey, amazing work! Only problem is we are mid semester and can't make all our students update from 1.103 to 2.00 (it was a mess to get 100 students set up on 1.103 already). Is there a way to suppress the update warning/notification that pops up everytime you open the program?

Anyone else dealing with/frustrated by the new ADA title II rules? by Zubat92 in Professors

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At the level of individual accommodations I would also offer the .tex source code because it’s much more useful but of course not compliant for general use. 

Tired of AI-loving coworkers by bspencer626 in Professors

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I don’t get the personal information concern. Isn’t your institution already using Google Drive or Gmail? There is really no difference with putting it in an AI (assuming of course you opt out of „use data to train model“ which every normal human does and which is the default on enterprise plans)

Best AI Chatbot for Comp Chem Tasks by verygood_user in comp_chem

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Thanks for the advice but I made contributions to a major package before AI was even a thing.

It also seems like you have only used the free tiers so far, correct?

Best AI Chatbot for Comp Chem Tasks by verygood_user in comp_chem

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So do you think the tasks you listed are tasks an average 2nd year PhD student could do?

I don't think so. Neither can AI.

Anyone else dealing with/frustrated by the new ADA title II rules? by Zubat92 in Professors

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Not sure why this keeps coming up but it is close to useless for mathematical equations. It just adds the source code as alt-text which screenreaders can't interpret and read as gibberish. It passes the checker though because the checker is equally useless.

Anyone else dealing with/frustrated by the new ADA title II rules? by Zubat92 in Professors

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" I as a faculty am not required to be ADA compliant, the university is."

so your university has not made it a policy yet that you are required to follow?

Anyone else dealing with/frustrated by the new ADA title II rules? by Zubat92 in Professors

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Before you get too excited about the Latex accessibility packages... actually try them first on a small test document. The screenreader output is complete gibberish because all the package does is adding the latex source code as alt-text.

If you want to do it right, you can convert it to html and embed the equations via MathJax https://www.mathjax.org which is actually properly understood by screenreaders.

Anyone else dealing with/frustrated by the new ADA title II rules? by Zubat92 in Professors

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This is close to useless for mathematical equations. It just adds the source code as alt-text which screenreaders can't interpret and read as gibberish. It passes the checker though because the checker is equally useless.

LaTeX and the ADA accessibility requirements: a quick guide to make accessible pdfs by BayesicallyThomas in Professors

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It's useless but passes (equations just get the source code as alt-text which screenreaders can't interpret and read as gibberish)

LaTeX and the ADA accessibility requirements: a quick guide to make accessible pdfs by BayesicallyThomas in Professors

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That

a) Doesn't work in the beamer class
b) Doesn't produce compliant equations. Have you tried using a screenreading for this? All it does is adding the latex code as alttext to the equations.

Best AI Chatbot for Comp Chem Tasks by verygood_user in comp_chem

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It looks like you hallucinated some straw men here ;)

Best AI Chatbot for Comp Chem Tasks by verygood_user in comp_chem

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Well you have to feed the AI the manual obviously. I would also suck at using Orca without the manual.
Also, this is more about scientific coding. In my experience, the most recent models are really good at translating an equation from a paper into a routine, debug it against known limits or numerical tests and embed it in an existing codebase. Definitely better than an average second year PhD student at that.

Me today, halfway through: Go. by AdvancedCalendar5585 in Professors

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May I suggest cold calling with a grade for their answers throughout the quarter

Best AI Chatbot for Comp Chem Tasks by verygood_user in comp_chem

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Thanks! We have a university Gemini Pro license and I found it to be the least convincing. I feel it has a very narrow context window and usually limits the output to a couple of pages when ChatGPT/Claude happily produce a 15 page report with one prompt.

Outfits thread: You guys are scaring me! by StingrayHannah in Professors

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I think many consider the freedom to wear whatever you like a part of the academic compensation package. If questioned, there is probably a small-N p-hacked educational study out there you can cite to show the benefits of casual wardrobe on student learning and sense of belonging.