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Suggested reading

The following are reading assignments in the text Geochemistry text (McSween, Richardson and Uhle) for the first half of the course:

Week / topic	Chapter	Pages	Notes
Week 1 / Introduction	Chapter 1 Chapter 2	1-5, 9-10 all
	Chapter 2	18-20	Bonding, crystal chemistry
	Chapter 2	23	Geochemical classification of the elements
	Chapter 2	24	Pauling's, Goldschmidt's rules
	Chapter 12	227-233
Week 2 / Thermodynamics	Chapter 3	all	Review partial differentiation and integration
	Chapter 3	37-43	Intro, first-, second law
	Chapter 3	45-46	Gibbs function
Week 3 / Thermodynamics	Chapter 9	all
	Chapter 9	169-177	G(P,T), equilibrium
	Chapter 9	179-181	Solutions, Henry's, Raoult's laws
	Chapter 9	188-195	G(X)
Week 4 / Trace elements	Chapter 4	all
	Chapter 9	179-185	Henry's Law, KD
	Chapter 12	233-262
Week 5 / Crust-mantle differentiation	Chapter 14	302-306	(also handouts)

Additional reading

Need to brush up on you math? Forgotten all about Taylor's Series? Try: The Manga Guide to Calculus: