Brilliant

Yes. There are lots of examples out there of analyzing titrations and such with Solver. Check JChemEd for starters.

A cool pedagodical aspect is that if you graph your system and step through the Solver iterations students can watch the model function approach the data on the graph.

One word: Solver. I have yet to find a suitable replacement for Excel's Solver anywhere else. Its uses in chemistry are extensive and educational.

BTW, if any of y'all know of an alternative, I would love to hear about it.

I use tuxcards.

Another chemist here.

What predictions does Bohmian mechanics make that traditional (Copenhagen) QM does not?

This is why I tell people that the leaning of a particular justice even within the same session will not necessarily tell you how that justice will see the matter at hand. Look at Gonzales v. Raich, where Rehnquist and Thomas -- two of the three most conservative leaning justices at the time -- voted in favor of allowing California's legalization of medical marijuana laws to trump federal law, while Kennedy and Scalia voted to let federal law win out. You can make a general guess, but until the opinion is published, you just don't know.

Huh? The conservatives were upholding states rights (a favorite conservative stance), where-as the liberals were up holding expansive federal government, as they often do. No surprises here.