Courses taught in physical and computational methods of chemical principles over a 36 year career including the following which were created or significantly modified:
- Chemistry 1064 - Chemical Computations
- A ten year experiment (1990-1999) required for B.S. freshman chemistry majors.
- Killed for lack of faculty support.
- Designed to teach students to appreciate that there's more to creative computation than:
- application packages that misgraph curves and abuse statistics;
- and more to programming than taking 3 credits and a semester to print "Hello world."
- Course notes and guides now on-line for all to appreciate - in progress. Check 'em out.
- Chemistry 3625/6 - Physical Chemistry Laboratory
- Started a career (1968-1982) on trying:
- to make physical experimentation, data analysis and technical report writing
- a worthwhile challenge to science and engineering students,
- and ended a career (1996-1999) still trying.
- Chemistry 4066 - Electronics for Scientists
- A practical course in digital electronic fundamentals and computer interfacing designed to aid in the design and development of automated instrumentation.
- Improved by 15 years experience in hands-on short course seminars with industrial, academic, and government laboratory scientists and engineers (1975-1990).
- Published books: Computer Assisted Home Energy Management, Sams, 1982, 182pp.
- with J. Davies: Computer Interfacing Techniques in Science, Scott Foresman, 1985, x+224pp.
- Offered for the last time in Fall 1999 - coming on-line when interest is shown.
- Chemistry 5210/5310 - Physical Inorganic Chemistry
- Graduate elective course in Group Theory and Chemical Structure
- later adapted as two quarters of a first year required graduate course in Chemical Bonding
Previous laboratory research in the evaluation of the vapor pressure of aqueous ammonia
solutions for the quantitative determination of atmospheric ammonia by passive infrared detection. Current scholarly interest in the phenomenal (physical and mathematical) nature of the universe.
- Equilibrium Vapor Cell for Quantitative IR Absorbance Measurements,Paul E. Field, Roger J. Combs, and Robert B. Knapp, Applied Spectroscopy, Vol. 50, No. 10, pp. 1307-1313, (Oct.) 1996.
- Aqueous Ammonia Vapor-Liquid Equilibria: Entropy and Temperature Dependence of Wilson Coefficients, Paul E. Field and Roger J. Combs, J. Solution Chem., Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 719-742, (Sept.) 2002.
- Computation of Equilibrium Partial Vapor Pressures of Aqueous Ammonia Solutions,Paul E. Field and Roger J. Combs, Technical Report ECBC-TR-085, U.S. Army Edgewood Arsenal APG, MD, 235 pp., June 2000.
- Vapor Mixture Generation for Infrared Sensor Evaluation, Paul E. Field and Roger J. Combs, SPIE Poster Session, Providence, RI, October 2003
- The Phenomenal Universe,Paul E. Field, unpublished essay on cosmology, light, space and time. June 2009
- Phenomenal Light - A Model Proposal,Paul E. Field, unpublished jounal article on a mathematical model for photon behavior adapted and revised from The Phenomenal Universe essay.
Other scholarly interests include
Familial interests
CONTACT: pfield@vt.edu
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