Courses taught in physical and computational methods of chemical principles over a 36 year career including the following which were created or significantly modified:

• Chemistry 1064 - Chemical Computations
  • A ten year experiment (1990-1999) required for B.S. freshman chemistry majors.
  • Killed for lack of faculty support.
  • Designed to teach students to appreciate that there's more to creative computation than:
  • application packages that misgraph curves and abuse statistics;
  • and more to programming than taking 3 credits and a semester to print "Hello world."
  • Course notes and guides now on-line for all to appreciate - in progress. Check 'em out.
• Chemistry 3625/6 - Physical Chemistry Laboratory
• Started a career (1968-1982) on trying:
• to make physical experimentation, data analysis and technical report writing
• a worthwhile challenge to science and engineering students,
• and ended a career (1996-1999) still trying.
• Chemistry 4066 - Electronics for Scientists
• A practical course in digital electronic fundamentals and computer interfacing designed to aid in the design and development of automated instrumentation.
• Improved by 15 years experience in hands-on short course seminars with industrial, academic, and government laboratory scientists and engineers (1975-1990).
• Published books: Computer Assisted Home Energy Management, Sams, 1982, 182pp.
• with J. Davies: Computer Interfacing Techniques in Science, Scott Foresman, 1985, x+224pp.
• Offered for the last time in Fall 1999 - coming on-line when interest is shown.
• Chemistry 5210/5310 - Physical Inorganic Chemistry
  • Graduate elective course in Group Theory and Chemical Structure
  • later adapted as two quarters of a first year required graduate course in Chemical Bonding

• Equilibrium Vapor Cell for Quantitative IR Absorbance Measurements,Paul E. Field, Roger J. Combs, and Robert B. Knapp, Applied Spectroscopy, Vol. 50, No. 10, pp. 1307-1313, (Oct.) 1996.
• Aqueous Ammonia Vapor-Liquid Equilibria: Entropy and Temperature Dependence of Wilson Coefficients, Paul E. Field and Roger J. Combs, J. Solution Chem., Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 719-742, (Sept.) 2002.
• Computation of Equilibrium Partial Vapor Pressures of Aqueous Ammonia Solutions,Paul E. Field and Roger J. Combs, Technical Report ECBC-TR-085, U.S. Army Edgewood Arsenal APG, MD, 235 pp., June 2000.
• Vapor Mixture Generation for Infrared Sensor Evaluation, Paul E. Field and Roger J. Combs, SPIE Poster Session, Providence, RI, October 2003

Other scholarly interests include

• Thermodynamics and Cosmology
• History and Metaphysics of Physical Science and Mathematics
• Science in Art and Architecture
• Interesting Problems and Solutions in Physical Chemistry

Familial interests

• Mother
• Father