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Frank Andrews Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus B.S., Kansas State University M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University Office: 460 PSB Phone: (831) 459-2776 Fax: (831) 459-2935 andrews@chemistry.ucsc.edu

Department of Chemistry University of California 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Office Hours Class Times & Locations

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Statistical Mechanics, Effect of a Person's Values on His or Her Experience, Experimental Education

Frank Andrews is a theoretician who has worked on equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Most recently, he has been involved with a statistical mechanical theory of dense classical fluids that is relatively simple, pictorial, and precise. Starting from an expression for the reciprocal of the activity that is pictorial and exact, he has developed equations describing fluids of hard repulsive cores of various sizes and shapes. These theories fit computer experiments remarkably well.
For a number of years, he has focused his attention on general problem solving, psychological unblocking, and how values affect experience.

Andrews has been both an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

F. C. Andrews, "Choosing a Path of Loving," in Voices on the Threshold of Tomorrow, ed. by G. and T. L. Feuerstein (Quest Books, Wheaton, IL, 1993), p. 294.

F. C. Andrews, The Art and Practice of Loving (Jeremy P. Tarcher, Los Angeles, 1991).

F. C. Andrews, "There is No Entropy Trap," Environment 26, 4, 1984.

F. C. Andrews and H. M. Ellerby, "A Simple Equilibrium Statistical Mechanical Theory of Dense Hard Sphere Fluid Mixtures," J. Chem. Phys. 75, 3542, 1981.