AHA! Chemistry with Prof Bob
  • Home
  • Modules
    • 02 The nature of matter >
      • 0201 Atoms: Building blocks
      • 0202 Classification of matter
    • 05 Chemical reaction, chemical equations >
      • 0500 Overview, preview
      • 0501 Amount of substance, mole
      • 0502 Avogadro constant: How many?
      • 0503 Avogadro constant: Why that number?
      • 0504 Chemical formulas: What do they mean?
      • 0505 What can equations tell us?
      • 0506 Limiting reactants
    • 09 Solutions >
      • 0901 What is a solution?
      • 0902 Miscibility of liquids
      • 0903 Like dissolves like?
      • 0905 Dissolution of ionic salts in water
      • 0906 Can we predict solubilities of salts?
      • 0907 Solution concentration
      • 0908 Chemical species, speciation
      • 0909 Solutes: Electrolytes or non-electrolytes?
      • 0910 Electrolytes - strong or weak?
      • 0911 Concentrated, dilute, strong, weak
      • 0912 Species concentration vs. solution concentration
      • 0913 Weak electrolytes: Getting quantitative
    • 11 Dynamic chemical equilibrium >
      • 1100 Equilibrium: An overview
      • 1101 Visualising dynamic equilibrium
      • 1102 The jargon of equilibrium
      • 1103 Equilibrium constants
    • 22 Evidence from spectroscopy >
      • 2200 Overview, preview
      • 2201 Spectroscopy: Quantization of energies
      • 2202 Light: Wave-particle "duality"
      • 2203 UV-Visible spectroscopy
      • 2204 Beer's law
    • 27 Communicating chemistry >
      • 2700 Overview, preview
      • 2703 The jargon we use
  • TOC
  • Index
  • Teachers' area
    • T01 Communicating chemistry
    • T02 Beer's law
    • T03 Professional amnesia of the chemistry teaching professio
    • T04 Law of equilibrium
    • T05 Visusalizing dynamic chemical equilibrium
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​The University of western Australia
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How could you not find places for inspiration or contemplation on this wonderful campus? And what a logo: SEEK WISDOM!

The inclusion of this page in no way suggests that this website has any official status with the University of Western Australia. I have loved working at this institution for its scholarship, the architecture and magnificent grounds, but this is an entirely personal venture.
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The very grand Winthrop Hall
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And the reflection pond in front of it
"Reflection" in this scholarly institution has a double meaning. Get it?
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And what does this wise gentleman have to say?
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No wonder everybody bows as they pass. Well, I do, anyway.
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Inside the grand hall is not too shabby, either.
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A wonderful place for functions, but absolutely inspiring for a graduation ceremony - of which I don't yet have a photo.
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On the banks of the Swan River - which flows past Perth (background), King's Park (left), UWA, and on to the right to the Indian Ocean at Fremantle
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Most people on the planet think that swans are white
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Let's go outside and walk around the amazing campus ..
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Tropical garden
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This giant is a Moreton bay fig tree
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And a non-native liquid amber in early winter - that's June for those of you in the northern hemisphere
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Having a wedding or a drama performance? The Sunken Garden.
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Where it all happens .... Chemistry
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And the floor tiling in the superb atrium of the Chemistry and Biochemistry building has unusual five-fold symmetry (as well as some idiot sleeping). Can you pick it out?
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A frieze in the limestone walls of the original chemistry building has representations of the greatest chemists from the past. You might be able to read their names?
But just in case you cannot: Priestley, Dalton, Boyle, Faraday, and Perkins. What were they famous for?
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And this frieze in the original physics building represents famous physicists. The creators saw no need for names: the representations are self-explanatory. Aren't they?
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Just in case you think that there are no students ..... Orientation Day
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He and his girlfriends are permanent residents of the Arts Faculty
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Some people say that academics always need to know which way the wind is blowing. I wouldn't .........
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A hint of Oxford in the colonnades of the older part of the university
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A thinking place. How many ideas have brewed here?
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Gotta have a sense of awe going through the arches
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Even from the rear, the Winthrop clock tower is a majestic landmark
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Underneath the tower. Ivy, of course!
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Let's go back to where we started - the front of Winthrop Hall and the reflection pond
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And I thought that it was age. Wrong again!
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I think that it is worth seeing again. Can you see Socrates (or his shadow)?
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August and serene.
See the stone bench at the other end of the pool? I wonder if there is anything written on the back of it ......
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Indeed there is. Write a 20-page essay on the subject.
And see the statue on the far right ......

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Diotima - mentor of Socrates
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Such striking features - especially for someone who has been standing in the Perth sun for 104 years
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It would not, Diotima
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Pond residents
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  • Home
  • Modules
    • 02 The nature of matter >
      • 0201 Atoms: Building blocks
      • 0202 Classification of matter
    • 05 Chemical reaction, chemical equations >
      • 0500 Overview, preview
      • 0501 Amount of substance, mole
      • 0502 Avogadro constant: How many?
      • 0503 Avogadro constant: Why that number?
      • 0504 Chemical formulas: What do they mean?
      • 0505 What can equations tell us?
      • 0506 Limiting reactants
    • 09 Solutions >
      • 0901 What is a solution?
      • 0902 Miscibility of liquids
      • 0903 Like dissolves like?
      • 0905 Dissolution of ionic salts in water
      • 0906 Can we predict solubilities of salts?
      • 0907 Solution concentration
      • 0908 Chemical species, speciation
      • 0909 Solutes: Electrolytes or non-electrolytes?
      • 0910 Electrolytes - strong or weak?
      • 0911 Concentrated, dilute, strong, weak
      • 0912 Species concentration vs. solution concentration
      • 0913 Weak electrolytes: Getting quantitative
    • 11 Dynamic chemical equilibrium >
      • 1100 Equilibrium: An overview
      • 1101 Visualising dynamic equilibrium
      • 1102 The jargon of equilibrium
      • 1103 Equilibrium constants
    • 22 Evidence from spectroscopy >
      • 2200 Overview, preview
      • 2201 Spectroscopy: Quantization of energies
      • 2202 Light: Wave-particle "duality"
      • 2203 UV-Visible spectroscopy
      • 2204 Beer's law
    • 27 Communicating chemistry >
      • 2700 Overview, preview
      • 2703 The jargon we use
  • TOC
  • Index
  • Teachers' area
    • T01 Communicating chemistry
    • T02 Beer's law
    • T03 Professional amnesia of the chemistry teaching professio
    • T04 Law of equilibrium
    • T05 Visusalizing dynamic chemical equilibrium
  • Aha! Whatever
    • Playful dolphins
    • The University of Western Australia
    • Kings Park
  • Prof Bob?
    • Family
    • Travel
    • Perth
    • At work
  • Travelling
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • In four days for two days