Schedule for Chem 435. Spring 2009

Subject to change at the instructor's discretion.
The labs last from 1:10 PM till 4:00 PM and take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays primarily in room CB109.
The schedule presumes that two groups are running two different experiments simaltaneuosly then alternate them and then go on to another pair of experiments. The order of the labs has been altered this year for adjusting to a new order of lecturing in Chem 433, 434 sequence. We will have a lecture before a new pair of labs to review the material. Your preparation for each new lab includes reading online material and answering prelab questions (some of them in a written form in your notebooks).  

# Day Date Report Due Topic Suggested reading besides the web material*
0 Thursday 1/15/09 1/29/09
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First meeting in room 113 and lecture
Introduction
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Ch.1,2 (GNS);  Error_Analysis
           
      Part I Thermodynamics  
1a Tuesday 1/20/09   Experiment 1, "Vapor Pressure of Liquids." Ch.1,5 (AP); exp 13,14** (GNS)
1b Thursday 1/22/09   Experiment 1  
1c Tuesday 1/27/09 2/10/09
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Experiment 1  
2a Thursday 1/29/09   Experiment 2, "Heat of Combustion." Ch. 2(AP); exp 6** (GNS)
2b Tuesday 2/3/09   Experiment 2  
2c Thursday 2/5/09 2/19/09 Experiment 2  
  Tuesday 2/10/09

Both groups.

Lecture for both groups in room 113

 
3a Thursday 2/12/09   Experiment 3, "Heat-Capacity Ratio." Ch.2 (AP); exp 3** (GNS)
3b Tuesday 2/17/09 3/03/09 Experiment 3 Cp/Cv
4a Thursday 2/19/09   Experiment 4, "Thermodynamics of DNA Duplex." Ch.22.4-22.5 (AP);
4b Tuesday 2/24/09 3/10/09 Experiment 4 Thermodynamics of DNA
           
      Part II Thermodynamics  
  Thursday 2/26/09 Both groups. Lecture for both groups in room 113  
5a Tuesday 3/03/09   Experiment 5, "Origins of Color." Ch.9 (AP); exp 34**(GNS)
5b Thursday 3/05/09 3/19/09 Experiment 5 UV-Vis
6a Tuesday 3/10/09 Last day to drop with "W" Experiment 6, "Luminescence Quenching." Ch. 24.2, 24.5 (AP); exp 40** (GNS)
6b Thursday 3/12/09 3/26/09 Experiment 6 Luminescence Quenching
  Tuesday 3/17/09 Both groups. Lecture for both groups in room 113 Mag. Res. Spectroscopy
7a Thursday 3/19/09   Experiment 7, "ESR Spectroscopy." Ch.18 (AP); exp 41** (GNS)
  Tuesday 3/24/09   Spring Break  
  Thursday 3/26/09   Spring Break  
7b Tuesday 3/31/09   Experiment 7  
7c Thursday 4/2/08 4/16/09 Experiment 7  
8a Tuesday 4/7/09   Experiment 8, "NMR Spectroscopy." Ch.18 (AP); exp 42** (GNS)
8b Thursday 4/9/09   Experiment 8  
8c Tuesday 4/14/09 4/28/09
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Experiment 8  
  Thursday 4/16/09 Both groups. Lecture for both groups in room 113 IR Spectroscopy; Mol. Modeling
9a Tuesday 4/21/09   Experiment 9, "IR Spectroscopy" Ch.16 (AP); exp 37** (GNS)
9b Thursday 4/23/09 5/07/09 Experiment 9  
10a Tuesday 4/28/09   Experiment 10, "Molecular Modeling"  
10b Thursday 4/30/09 5/11/09 Experiment 10  
           
  Tuesday 5/05/08   Oral Presentations in room 113
bring also your notebooks and old lab reports
 
  Tuesday 5/12/09   Grades Turn in.   
        Additional Experiments:  
        Experiment 11 - "Scanning Probe Microscopy" Ch.28.2 (AP);
        Experiment 12 - Alternative Experiment 4, "Ionization Constants of Acids"  
        Experiment 13 - Also alternative Experiment 4, "Cyclic Voltammetry"  
        Experiment 14 - Also alternative Experiment 4, "Conductance of Solutions"  
       

Experiment 15 - Alternative Experiment 9, "Raman Spectroscopy"

Raman Spectroscopy;

* - the books are abbreviated according to the reference page for books
**-please note that the actual experiments could be different from those described in the text; refer to the web site for detailed experiment description

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