CH 434

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The course CH 434 is the undergraduate Physical Chemistry laboratory.

It consist of a lecture on Tuesday at 11:45 am and a lab session 1:30 to 5:00 pm. There are currently three lab sessions: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday all given in Dabney 608.

The course consists of three phases:

1. The first two weeks are dedicated to the application of simple statistics

   Data are provided in electronic form and the student processes them into a legible report

2. The experiment phase consist of five experiments to be done in groups of two or three, all resulting in a written report.

   The available experiments are:

   Adiabatic compression of gases

   MDSC of polyols

   The measurement of an equilibrium constant by UV/VIS

   Bomb calorimetry

   Solution calorimetry

   The XRD pattern of a simple cubic compound

   The FTIR spectrum of HCl

3. The project phase

   Students are given literature information on a topic and told to go do better. The phase ends in a formal presentation of the scientific progress achieved in this time.

• Phase diagrams
• CH 434/layering of gold nanoparticles
• UV/Vis