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Over the past few months, I have been making a series of short Python videos on YouTube. You can find the playlist at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0sMmOaE_gs2yzwy54kLZk5c1ZH-Nh-62. They are not particularly well organized there, since I make them in the order I feel like, and when I have some spare time, so today I took some time to organize them by some topics here. If you find them useful, please subscribe to the channel and tell your friends about them!

org-mode source

Org-mode version = 9.5

## Integration of the heat capacity

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From thermodynamics, the heat capacity is defined as $$C_p = \left(\frac{dH}{dT}\right)_P$$. That means we can calculate the heat required to change the temperature of some material from the following integral:

$$H_2 - H_1 = Q = \int_{T_1}^{T_2} C_p(T) dT$$

In the range of 298-1200K, the heat capacity of CO2 is given by a Shomate polynomial:

$$C_p(t) = A + B t + C t^2 + D t^3 + E/t^2$$ with units of J/mol/K.

where $$t = T / 1000$$, and $$T$$ is the temperature in K. The constants in the equation are

value
A 24.99735
B 55.18696
C -33.69137
D 7.948387
E -0.136638
F -403.6075
G 228.2431
H -393.5224

## 1 Integrate the heat capacity

Use this information to compute the energy (Q in kJ/mol) required to raise the temperature of CO2 from 300K to 600K. You should use scipy.integrate.quad to perform the integration.

### 1.1 solution   solution

A =  24.99735
B =  55.18696
C = -33.69137
D =  7.948387
E = -0.136638
F = -403.6075
G =  228.2431
H = -393.5224

def Cp(T):
t = T / 1000
return A + B*t + C*t**2 + D*t**3 + E / t**2

dH, _ = quad(Cp, 300, 600)
print(f'The change in enthalpy is {dH / 1000:1.3f} kJ/mol')

The change in enthalpy is 12.841 kJ/mol



## 2 Verify via Δ H

The change in enthalpy (in kJ / mol) from standard state is

$$dH − dH_{298.15}= A t + B t^2/2 + C t^3/3 + D t^4/4 − E/t + F − H$$

again, $$t = T / 1000$$.

Use this equation to compute the change in enthalpy when you increase the temperature from 300 K to 600 K.

### 2.1 solution   solution

def dH(T):
t = T / 1000
return A * t + B*t**2 / 2 + C * t**3 / 3 + D * t**4 / 4 - E/t + F - H

print(f'The change in enthalpy is {dH(600) - dH(300):1.3f} kJ/mol')

The change in enthalpy is 12.841 kJ/mol



org-mode source

Org-mode version = 9.1.13

## helm actions when there is no match

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Sometimes you run out of matches in a helm selection buffer, and all that is left is the pattern you have typed in. It turns out you can perform some action on that pattern! Why would you do that? Suppose you are searching your bibliography, and you do not find what you are looking for. Then, you may want to send the pattern to Google, or some other search engine to see what comes up.

The key to handling this situation is to use two sources in your helm session. One that works on the candidates and deals with actions on them, and one that has no candidates, and works on the pattern. The variable helm-pattern contains what you typed in. We call the second source the Fallback option. The second source has no candidates, and we use (dummy) in place of the candidates.

It easy to add two sources. Here we define the sources as variables, and use the variables in the :sources list to the helm command.

(defun some-action (arg)
(message-box "%s\n%s"
(helm-get-selection)
(helm-marked-candidates)))

(defun default-action (candidate)
(browse-url
(format

(defvar source1 '((name . "HELM")
(candidates . (1 2 3 4))
(action . (("open" . some-action)))))

(defvar fallback-source '((name . "fallback")
(dummy)

(helm :sources '(source1 fallback-source))

#<process open http://www.google.com/search?q=addtion%20pul>


When you run this, if you run out of search candidates, all that will be left is the fallback option, and when you press enter, it will launch a browser pointing to the google search for your pattern.

org-mode source

Org-mode version = 8.2.10

## New org-mode link to Web of Science

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For ages I have been trying to figure out how to make a link to open a search in Web of Science. Today, thanks to help from our library, I finally figured it out!

It turns out you can embed a search widget to Web of Science in a web page. See http://wokinfo.com/webtools/searchbox/ . Here is an example.

 Search Web of Science™     Copyright 2014 Thomson Reuters

This simple form just sends a GET http request to a cgi script at Web of Knowledge. Awesome, we can create a url that does just that to make an org link! We will make a link that you can click on to open the web page, and a simple formatting function to make the link work in html too when we export it.

(org-add-link-type
"wos"
(lambda (path)
(browse-url
(s-join "+"
(split-string path)))))
;; formatting function. Assume html
(format "<a href=\"%s\">%s</a>"
(s-join "+"
(split-string path)))
)))


Now, here is a link: wos:alloy segregation

When I click on it in org-mode, Web of Science opens to articles that match that search. When I export the post to html, you should also see a link that opens to Web of Science (assuming you click on it from an IP address with access).

The link may not seem all that useful, but we can use the idea to highlight words, and send them to a web of science query, e.g. https://github.com/jkitchin/jmax/blob/master/words.el#L63 , or in org-ref to query web of science for the words you typed into helm-bibtex that do not match any references in your database. One more powerful tool in doing research for a living!

org-mode source

Org-mode version = 8.2.10

## Pandoc does org-mode now

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Pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ ) is a document converter. It does a pretty good job of converting a document in one format to another. Pandoc also knows about org-mode now, and can convert an org-file to a Word document! We are going to test it out in this post to see what it does well with.

## 1 A subsection with some equations

Einstein showed us that $$E = mc^2$$.

A matrix looks like this:

$$\begin{matrix} a & b & c \\ d & e & f \\ g & h & i \end{matrix}$$

## 2 A section with a figure

Here is a figure in the document.

## 3 A section with a table

Table 1: A simple table.
x y
1 1
2 4
3 9

## 4 Some citations

For fun, a reference to the org-mode book dominik-2010-org-mode.

## 5 some source code

here is a python block.

print 'hello pandoc'

hello pandoc


and finally, we write a block that will convert this file to a word document.

(save-buffer)
(shell-command "pandoc -s -s org-to-word.org -o org-to-word.docx")

0


Now, here is that org-to-word.docx

it is pretty good, and blazing fast. The output is not quite as good as the native org to pdf (org-to-word.pdf ), but since the translation is happening outside of Emacs the results are still pretty impressive, and if you need a Word document there is no substitute 1. The simple equation was translated to a Word equation format (cool!) but the matrix did not show up in the word document, nor did the figure caption. The code does show up, but the lines are not numbered as they are in the pdf. The citation did not work out of the box. The User guide suggests it might be possible to get this to work with a citations extension though.

I am impressed that the Word document has proper section headings. Overall, my impression is that this is a very good way to get 90+% of the way to a finished word document with an org-source file!

## Footnotes:

1

Ok, there is the ODT export engine. So far I have not been able to make that export documents that Word can open though, and it takes more configuration than just installing Pandoc.