CHEMISTRY 223
 EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY I
SPRING 2001

INSTRUCTORS: Professor Marsha I. Lester, milester@sas.upenn.edu

                               Dr. Beatrice Feron Gooding, bgooding@sas.upenn.edu

Lectures on Thursdays from 10:30-12 AM in CHEM 109 and laboratory on

Mondays and Wednesdays OR Tuesday and Thursdays from 1-5 PM in CLAB 251

Week
Lectures (Thursdays)
Laboratory
1

1/17 -18
Introduction to Excel
Introductory Remarks/Safety
2

1/22 - 25
Error Analysis I+ II
Error Analysis and Computer

Familiarization Exercise 
3

1/29 - 2/1
Solids
 
 
 
 
 
 

Select four Experiments*
4

2/5 - 8
Atomic Spectroscopy /

Electronic Properties
5

2/12 - 15
IR / Raman

Spectroscopy
6

2/19 - 22
Thermodynamics /

Equilibrium
7

2/26 - 3/1
Electronic Spectroscopy /

Kinetics
8

3/5 - 8
To be announced
3/12 -15
SPRING BREAK
SPRING BREAK
3/19 - 22
Additional lectures 

as required
 
 

Select three additional Experiments*
3/26 - 29
4/2 - 5
4/9 - 12
4/16 -19
4/26
EXAM 

* Each experiment is allocated THREE (3) laboratory sessions (1-1/2 weeks). The experiments will cover the following topics: thermodynamics, equilibrium, atomic spectroscopy, solids, kinetics, vibrational spectroscopy, as well as absorption and emission spectroscopy of molecules.

NOTE: The optimum lab report will be FIVE (5) pages in length (12 font) plus supplementary tables and graphs. Each report will be worth 100 points.
 
 

List of Planned Experiments for the Physical Chemistry Laboratory Course
(students will perform 7 of these during the semester)

I. Thermodynamics / Equilibrium

011 Oxygen Bomb Calorimetry
012 Dissociation of Dinitrogen Tetroxide
013 Computer-Interfaced pH Titration: Studies of the Mannitol-Borate Equilibrium

II. Atomic spectroscopy

017 Emission Spectrum of Atomic Hydrogen

019 Multiphoton Ionization of Cesium Atoms

III. Solids

020 X-Ray Diffraction by Powders (salts)
103 X-Ray Diffraction by Powders (graphite)
104 Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Graphite

IV. Kinetics / Equilibrium (Theory)
101 Kinetics Study of Enzyme-Catalyzed and Acid-Catalyzed Inversion of Sucrose
110 Application of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy to the
Study of Molecular Rate Processes: Rotational Barrier in Dimethyl Acetamide
111 Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Argon

V. IR / Raman Spectroscopy

102 Infrared Spectroscopy: Rotation-Vibration Spectrum of a Diatomic Molecule
105 Raman Spectroscopy: Vibrational Analysis of CCl4 and Triatomic Molecules
106 Infrared Spectroscopy II: Rotation-Vibration Spectra of Triatomic Molecules

VI. Absorption / Emission spectroscopy

018 Absorption Spectra of a Series of Conjugated Dyes
107 Emission Spectrum of a Diatomic Molecule: Nitrogen
108 Absorption Spectrum of Molecular Iodine
109 Emission Spectrum of Molecular Iodine

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