Wednesday, December 20, 2006
AP: Osmotic Pressure
What is "osmotic pressure"? Here's a video from a chem prof that will help you and here is a flash animation that clearly demonstrates what occurs at the particle level.
This site has a nice, brief discussion and example of the van 't Hoff factor, "i" (now I see, the " ' " goes before the "t" in Dutch names; Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands; with a name like that, he better have discovered something; the rest is history.)
Here are two sample problems in which "i" is determined and explained .
This site has a nice, brief discussion and example of the van 't Hoff factor, "i" (now I see, the " ' " goes before the "t" in Dutch names; Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands; with a name like that, he better have discovered something; the rest is history.)
Here are two sample problems in which "i" is determined and explained .