What are the application of maths in chemistry?

Answer 1

First, algebra is applied in everything we do. Algebra can be applied to chemistry in many ways: to manipulate equations and solve for a problem. For example, here is a gas equation from chemistry PV=nRT. P is the pressure (in atm), V is the volume (in L), n is the moles, R is a constant (.082059 L*atm mol-1 K-1), and T is the temperature (in K).

Let's say you are given all the information and need to find the temperature, and this is where algebra comes into play: T= PV/nR . You can complete General Chemistry as well as Organic Chemistry with only algebra under your belt; at my school algebra is the only prerequisite to enroll in Chem.

Answer 2

Math relates to chemistry in that it (mathematics) is the language that can most accurately describe what is occurring chemically as it is for most other sciences. After all, modern sciences are really different areas of physics. Chemistry the physics of electron sharing, and transfer for the most part, Biology the physics of carbon based life, Biochem " " ".

All these modern sciences are based on knowledge gleaned from the Periodic Table, which was made by advances in quantum physics, namely the borh model of the atom.

English becomes nonsensical when attempting to describe the superposition an electron for example. One might say an electron exists in superposition (multiple places and thus multiple times) in what is known as a cloud of probability around the atomic nucleus. So in English we say that single electron is existing there and there and there, and then and then, and yesterday, and today and two weeks from now.

Now does that make much sense? Its true, electrons do exist in that sense, but its so much more than that, and mathematics is able to describe the natural world more accurately than verbal language thus far.