Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Converting energies

Some numbers I find useful and worth remembering are 1 eV equals about 12,000 K and 8000 cm-1. But I still struggle to remember anything about kcal/mol, the chemists favourite unit. I found this very useful Table today when I was struggling with some conversions.
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