CHEM 336, Physical Chemistry II, is a co-prerequisite for this course.

Text:

Their is no formal text for this course.  Laboratory handouts will provide the background, experimental procedures, and a guide to the calculations and questions to be answered in each experiment.  The CHEM 337 Physical Chemistry Laboratory Manual (Coe, D. A, and Diebold, F. E., 5th edition, Montana Tech, Butte, 1999), Physical Chemistry for the Biosciences, Raymond Chang, University Science Books, Sausalito CA, 2005., and Experiments in Physical Chemistry (Shoemaker, D. P., Garland, C. W., and Nibler, J. W., 5th ed., McGraw Hill, Colorado Springs, 1989) will be useful, if not essential references in this course.

Course Structure:

The experiments in this course have been chosen to complement the material presented in the physical chemistry lectures and/or to introduce you to physical chemistry topics not covered in the lecture. 

The philosophy in this course is to involve the student in a set of experiments which will meet one or more of the following objectives:

1.      Illustrate material presented in the lecture (either before or after the fact).

2.      Introduce material that will not be encountered in the lecture, due to lack of time, but which, none-the-less, is material with which the student should have some familiarity.

3.      Provide experience with techniques (both instrumental and wet chemical) and chemical-physical systems that you are not likely to encounter elsewhere in your undergraduate career.

4.      Foster independent thinking, initiative, and effort (to a much greater extent than you experienced in CHEM 337, Physical Chemistry Laboratory I) in carrying out experiments.

You, of course, will be expected to apply the techniques of error analysis for small data sets and the habits of good report writing that you learned in CHEM 337, Physical Chemistry Laboratory I. 

Grading

Experiments in this course will be graded on the participation and initiative that you show in carrying out the laboratory work, your laboratory notebook (which I may request at any time), and the reports that are required for each experiment.   These reports will generally be graded on a 50 point basis, but there may be some exceptions where the report will carry more weight.

Honesty:

Quizzes and exams are expected to be a measure of your own effort and ability. A single incident of cheating will result in a grade of zero for that quiz or exam. A second incidence of cheating will result in removal from the class roll.