Laboratory Information
Wet labs will meet in the P-Chem Lab on the thrird floor of Coolbaugh Hall. Dry labs will meet as follows:
- CHGN 353 Computational Chemistry, Tuesdays, 2-4:00 and 5:00 to 7:00 pm - CT B56
- CHGN 353 LB, Tuesdays, 2-4:50 pm - CT B60
- CHGN 353 LC, Thursdays, 2-4:50 pm - CT 229
- CHGN 353 LA, Thursdays, 8-10:50 am - CT 229
Laboratory Assignments
- January 10 - week 1: No lab
- January 17 - week 2: No lab
- January 24 - week 3: Thermal populations from FTIR spectra. All labs will meet in CTLM. For this first lab, go at your assigned time.
- January 31- week 4: No lab
- Thermal population lab due
- February 7- week 5: Help session--A closer look at hydrogen atom wavfunctions
- February 14 - week 6: Help session--A sample variational problem
- February 21- week 7: No lab
- February 28- week 8: Help session--Constructing molecular orbital diagrams
- March 7- week 9: No lab
- March 14- Spring break
- March 21- week 10: Wet lab--Measuring the vapor pressure of iodine (required of everyone)
- March 28- week 11: Dry lab--Statistical mechanics of iodine sublimation
- April 4 - week 12: No lab
- Iodine lab due--postponed till next week
Provide a copy of your graph showing the calculated partial pressure of Iodine as a function of temperature. Breifly describe how altering the moment of inertia of Iodine molecules will affect the vapor pressure.
- April 11- week 13: Wet lab--Clock reactions
- April 18- week 14: Dry lab
- April 25 - week 15: No lab
- Kinetics lab due. Keep you report short but include a discussion as to how you found the activation energy of the clock reaction and the value you obtained, and a brief explanation of the meaning of the stream traces generated with Mathematica. You should be able to do the entire report in a page or less.
- May 2 - week 16 (Dead week)