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22 Feb: Tutorial 5 is posted. Please have a copy of MATLAB, Python and/or Polymath installed on your laptops. If you can't get it working, bring your computer to Monday's tutorial and I will help getting it working.
- The tutorial is due as assignment 3B on 28 February.
- Some demo source code to help you in the tutorial is now available.

22 Feb: Solutions to the midterm are posted. At the very least, please read the comments on the first 2 pages; we also went through the solutions in the class on 14 February.

25 Feb: please review the example covered in class on 25 February. Ensure that you understand how the problem was derived and then coded into your choice of Polymath, Python or MATLAB. Run the code for your choice and duplicate the plots shown.

26 Feb: grades for the assignments (1 and 2) have been uploaded to Avenue. Grades for assignment 3 will be available after assignment 3B is graded. Grades for the midterm will be available once the midterms are graded (hopefully by Thursday, but it might be Monday).

Topic	Latest slides (last update, version #)
0. Course outline and overview	PDF
1. Mole balances	PDF (16 Jan, 19:00, v23)
2. Conversion and reactor sizing	PDF (21 Jan, 19:45, v26)
3. Rate laws and stoichiometry	PDF (31 Jan, 19:50, v28)
4. Isothermal reactor design	No slides, but click on link for PDF of handouts
5. Collection and analysis of rate data
6. Multiple reactions
7. Steady-state nonisothermal reactor design
8. Distributions of residence times
9. Course wrap up

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