Chem 4581 - Physical Chemistry Lab I

and

CHEM 4591 - Physical Chemistry Lab II

Fall 2009

No labs the week of August 24th.
Lab meetings begin the week of August 31, 2009.  All labs meet in Ekeley Sciences Room M224.
If you are waitlisted for a section, stay on the waitlist and come to the first meeting of the section the week of August 31st.
We can most likely get you in!

[All files are PDFs unless otherwise noted] [Contact information is in the Syllabus]

Course Material (4581 & 4591)

Error Analysis (Chem 4581)
Syllabus                                                                                              
Writing a Lab Report                                                                          
Example Lab Report
Distribution of Points 4581                                                               
Distribution of Points 4591
Error Analysis Handout
Error Analysis Homework

Excel Tutorial

The lists below DO NOT reflect the order in which you will do the experiments. The order in which you do them will be posted on the bulletin board in the lab.

Experiment Handouts (Chem 4581)

Experiment Handouts (Chem 4591)
Heats of Combustion and Formation (HCF)
Vapor Pressure and Heats of Vaporization (VP/HV)
Binary Solid-Liquid Phase Diagram (BSL)
Surface Adsorption (SA)
Gas-Liquid Chromatography (GLC)		 Naphthalene Electronic Quenching (NEQ)
Kinetics of a Fast Reaction (KFR) New!
Absorption Spectra of Conjugated Dyes (DYE)
Vibration-Rotation Spectra Of HCl (HCl)
Band Spectra and Dissociation Energies (BS)
IR Spectroscopy of SO2
X-ray Diffraction

How to import Ocean Optics spectrometer files into Excel

Data files from the Conjugated Dye experiment and the Raman experiment need to be imported into Excel for calculations. The following file is a brief tutorial on how to do it.
Importing Spectrometer files

Raman Spectroscopy for CHEM 4591 (draft)

Raman Spectroscopy

Electronics Lab for CHEM 4591 (draft pages)

(I'm still modifying some of the procedural details on these pages, so don't print these pages
until I mark them as 'ready to print'. You can go ahead and read them, as the substance
will not change.)
Outline & Notes ready to print
Day 1 Exercises ready to print
Day 2 Exercises ready to print
Day 3 Exercises ready to print