The goal is to have at least one song per day (sometimes more) that could in theory relate in some way to what we are covering in class. These page is to be a catalog of the songs that have been played. Hope you enjoy the effort. - Dr. McCord
| # | day | song | artist | year | theme |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8/27 | Ain't that a Kick in the Head | Dean Martin | 1960 | none - first day of class |
| 2 | 8/29 | Sixteen Tons | Tennessee Ernie Ford | 1955 | none - second day of class |
| 3 | 9/3 | Jumpin' Jack Flash | The Rolling Stones | 1968 | "... it's a gas, gas, gas" |
| 4 | 9/5 | Under Pressure | Queen (with David Bowie) | 1981 | gas properties - pressure, duh |
| 5 | 9/8 | All Mixed Up | The Cars | 1978 | gas mixtures / partial pressures |
| 6 | 9/8 | Get it Hot | AC/DC | 1979 | Fire is hot "demo" |
| 7 | 9/10 | Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On | Jerry Lee Lewis | 1957 | KMT - molecules have thermal motion |
| 8 | 9/12 | Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing | Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell | 1968 | Real gases, non-ideal behavior |
| 9 | 9/15 | Road to Nowhere | Talking Heads | 1985 | diffusion of gases |
| 10 | 9/17 | Mixed Emotions | The Rolling Stones | 1989 | emotions? about the exam? Mixed gases? |
| 11 | 9/19 | Rainbow in the Dark | Dio | 1983 | EM rad - colors of light |
| 12 | 9/22 | Call Me Maybe | Carly Rae Jepsen | 2012 | "...here's my number" - Quantum Numbers! |
| 13 | 9/24 | Build Me Up Buttercup | The Foundations | 1968 | Aufbau Principle |
| 14 | 9/26 | Bulls on Parade | Rage Against the Machine | 1996 | "Family and Shells" |
| 15 | 9/29 | 1234 | Feist | 2007 | electron configurations - counting |
| 16 | 10/1 | Come Together | The Beatles (Aerosmith, on Spotify list) |
1969 | Bonding - ions/atoms |
| 17 | 10/3 | Let's Stay Together | Al Green | 1972 | Atoms get together and BOND |
| 18 | 10/6 | Get Together | The Youngbloods | 1969 | more bonding and togetherness |
| 19 | 10/8 | I Wanna Get Better | Bleachers | 2014 | better structures via formal charge |
| 20 | 10/13 | Shape I'm In | Arc Angels | 1992 | molecular shapes - geometries |
| -- | 10/15 | End of the Line | The Traveling Wilburys (not on Spotify) |
1988 | line drawings - Carbon is there at the end of the line |
| 21 | 10/17 | Mission Impossible | Brave Combo | 2008 | combining atomic orbitals to make hybrids |
| 22 | 10/20 | Cocaine | Eric Clapton | 1977 | identify sp2 hybrids on structure |
| 23 | 10/22 | Hey Man, Nice Shot | Filter | 1995 | taking a "shot" at MO theory |
| 24 | 10/24 | Chain of Fools | Aretha Franklin | 1968 | conjugated carbon chains |
| 25 | 10/27 | You Really Got a Hold on Me | Smokey Robinson and the Miracles | 1962 | IMFs taking "hold" |
| 26 | 10/29 | Even Flow | Pearl Jam | 1991 | viscosity is resistance to "flow" |
| -- | 10/31 | - none - | Dr. Sparks substituted | ||
| 27 | 11/3 | Walk This Way | Hayseed Dixie | 2002 | Walk and Talk like you know IMFs |
| 28 | 11/5 | I Can Change | LCD Soundsystem | 2010 | intro to thermo (changes are important) |
| 29 | 11/7 | Breaking the Law | Judas Priest Bonus - FFF Fest Tie-In |
1980 | 1st Law, 2nd Law, 3rd Law! (no breaking though) |
| 30 | 11/10 | Heat of the Moment | Asia | 1982 | calculating heat for 1st law calculations |
| 31 | 11/12 | Cherry Bomb | The Runaways | 1976 | "Bomb" calorimetry |
| 32 | 11/14 | Gimme Three Steps | Lynyrd Skynyrd | 1973 | Hess' law - adding steps to get the whole thing |
| 33 | 11/17 | Breaking Up is Hard to Do | Neil Sedaka | 1962 | Breaking bonds is hard to do (endothermic) |
| 34 | 11/19 | Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood | The Animals | 1965 | LOTS of misconceptions about what entropy is and isn't |
| 35 | 11/21 | Free Fallin' | Tom Petty | 1989 | introduced FREE energy |
| 36 | 11/24 | Get Down Tonight | KC & the Sunshine Band | 1975 | reactions "get down" to the lowest free energy state possible |
| 37 | 12/1 | Low | Cracker | 1993 | spont change tends towards LOWer energy states |
| 38 | 12/3 | Fire and Ice | Pat Benatar | 1981 | Did demo with fire in dry ice (Mg + CO2) |
| 39 | 12/5 | Uptown Funk | Mark Ronson feat: Bruno Mars | 2014 | end of class - feeling funky |