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This is very interesting and I look forward to seeing more of these videos.

So far I've only seen the van der Waals one (I have work to do!), but I do have one issue. The "a" and "b" terms in the old days were determined by fitting the equation to the experimental data. However, now they are determined from the critical temperature and pressure of the gas.

a = (27R^2 T^2 )/(64 P)

b = RT/(8P)

where T and P are the critical temp and pressure, and R is the gas constant. You can see that if you look in the CRC rubber book.

Also it might be good to tell why it's 1/V^2 term. If you think of the Lennard-Jones 6-12 potential. You have 1/r^6 which is proportional to the 1/V^2 term. That's not why van der Waals used it (as far as I know), but it does offer some connection to the attraction between molecules.

I don't know if you saw this book, but it is excellent and what I use to teach my pchem class

http://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Thermodynamics-Applications-Bevan-Ott/dp/0125309902

There is also the second volume

http://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Thermodynamics-Applications-Bevan-Ott/dp/0125309856/

do you have this book? There is a section on electroplating and it talks about edge effects. That would be my best guess, but I'm just a chemist. Also, I found this paper, which looks like something similar to what you're doing. Good luck!

http://www.l-chem.com/Papers/Deposit_Thickness_Distribution.pdf