Part II Project

The 'Part II' is a post-Finals year spent in a research group, producing a project which counts 25% towards the final Degree mark.

I spent the 2001/2002 academic year working for Prof. P.J. Hore in the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory. My project was a theoretical one, writing computer code to calculate how small magnetic fields - up to 100x the strength of the Earth's magnetic field - affected the yields of chemical reactions.

My program built on work done previously, but had a significant speed and power advantage over those written before. For the first time, it allowed chemically realistic systems (with many contributing atoms) to be investigated, and produced some results in very good agreement with previously obtained data. It also showed that a new model of radical recombination kinetics was required to fully explain the system.

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