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UCI Chem 5 Scientific Computing Skills (Fall 2012)
Lec 04. Scientific Computing Skills
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Instructor: Douglas Tobias, Ph.D.

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Description: This course introduces students to the personal computing software used by chemists for managing and processing of data sets, plotting of graphs, symbolic and numerical manipulation of mathematical equations, and representing chemical reactions and chemical formulas. Scientific Computing Skills (Chem 5) is part of OpenChem: http://learn.uci.edu/openchem.html

Recorded October 8, 2012.

Index of Topics:
00:23-List Manipulation
05:32-Defining a Matrix
08:32-Transpose Operation
10:27-Using a Matrix to Find Rate Law
16:09-List Plot
20:01-Integrated Rate Laws
28:25-Least Square Fitting
37:56-Plotting the Least Squares
40:41-Adding a Third Term
47:18-Show Command

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