CHEM 223
EXPERIMENTAL PHYS CHEM I

Spring 2000

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 - 21
Error Analysis I
Introductory Remarks/Safety
2

1/24 - 28
Error Analysis II
Error Analysis and Computer

Familiarization Exercise (100 points)
3

1/31 - 2/4
Thermodynamics /

Equilibrium
4

2/7 - 11
Atomic Spectroscopy /

Electronic Properties
5

2/14 - 18
IR / Raman

Spectroscopy
Experiments*

Select THREE
6

2/21 - 25
Solids
7

2/28 - 3/3
Electronic Spectroscopy /

Kinetics
8

3/6 - 10
Review
No Laboratory Sessions
3/13 - 17
SPRING BREAK
SPRING BREAK
9
MIDTERM EXAM ? March 23

(100 points)
10
Experiments*
11
Select FOUR
12
13
 
14
 

 

* Each experiment is allocated THREE (3) laboratory sessions (1-1/2 weeks). The experiments will cover the following topics: thermodynamics, equilibrium, atomic spectroscopy, electronic properties, 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 Proposed Experiments for the Physical Chemistry Laboratory Course
(students will perform 7 of them 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. Electronic Properties
            014 Measurement of Magnetic Susceptibility by the Gouy Method
            018 Absorption Spectra of a Series of Conjugated Dyes

IV. Solids
            020 X-Ray Diffraction by Powders (salts)
            103 X-Ray Diffraction by Powders (graphite)
            104 Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Graphite
            113 Review of the Literature and FTIR Spectra of Buckminsterfullerene

V. Kinetics / Equilibrium (Theory)
            101 A Spectrophotometric Study of the Kinetics of Oxidation of
                       Benzyl Alcohol by Cerium (IV)
            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

VI. 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

VII. Absorption / Emission spectroscopy (molecular spectroscopy)
            107 Emission Spectrum of a Diatomic Molecule: Nitrogen
            108 Absorption Spectrum of Molecular Iodine
            109 Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Pyrene Using a Nanosecond-Pulsed Laser