This laboratory will cover topics introduced in Physical Chemistry lecture courses I and II CHEM 3503 and CHEM 3513. Laboratory experience will be selected from the following:
Statistical and Error Analysis
Gas Laws
- Heat Capacity Ratios of Gases
- Second Virial Coefficient
Thermodynamics
- Bomb Calorimetry
- Efficiency of Fuel Samples
- Measurement and Calculation of Thermodynamic Properties of N2O4 « 2 NO2.
Solutions and Phase Transitions
- Enthalpy of Vaporization
- Liquid-Vapor Equilibrium in a Binary System
- Solubility & Ionic Strength
- Chain linkage in polyvinyl alcohol
- Viscosity of a liquid
- Surface Tension of Solutions
- Construction of a Ternary Phase Diagram
- Determination of the Coefficient of Expansion
Kinetics and Dynamics
- Homogeneous Reactions in Solution
- Consecutive Reaction Kinetics
- Ammonia Inversion
- HCN to HNC transition
Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy
- Absorption Spectrum of a Conjugated dye
- Resonance energy of Benzene
- Synthesis and Measurement of the Strain Energy of Cyclopropane and Calculation
- Vibrational-Rotational Spectrum of HCl and DCl - Analysis and Calculation.
- Vibronic Spectra of I2
- Experimental and Statistical Thermodynamics of Iodine Sublimation.
