Chemsitry 366
Physical Chemistry: Thermodynamics
Lab Program
1.- You must wear goggles (protecting your eyes) at all times in room 253 MSL.
i) If you do not follow this procedure, the instructor will issue a warning.
ii) You will be warned only two times
iii) The third time, the instructor will ask you to leave the room, and you will get an F for the corresponding lab report.
2.- Prelab protocol counts as part of your grade.
i) You have to prepare a prelab protocol before coming to the laboratory in your lab notebook .
ii) Before starting the corresponding experiment, the instructor will check and initial your protocol.
iii) During the entire experiment, you will be required to follow you own protocol not the Laboratory Manual.
iv) One copies of the Laboratory Manual will be available for consultation only.
v) Photocopy of the original prelab protocol has to be attached to your final laboratory report.
3.- The reports are due two weeks after the day on which the experiment was performed.
Two full lab reports are mandatory for the first lab of each rotation. Also 4 additional short report are required.
i) The reports are to be written in a good literary style and should follow the Journal of
Chemical Education format.
ii) Typing is preferred but not required.
iii) You will be allow 14 "days units" of late lab reports without penalty:
Use this privilege wisely.
iv) Additional late reports will result in a loss of one third of the full grade (B+->B) per day.
v) Reports more than one week late will not be graded without a Dean's excuse.
Additional References
General Physical Chemistry Textbooks
R.S. Berry, S.A. Rice, J. Ross, Physical Chemistry (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980). Very heavy and detailed...not as useful as an introductory source.
I.N. Levine, Physical Chemistry, 3rd Ed. (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1988). This text and Noggle have been used in the past for Chem 301-2.
J.H. Noggle, Physical Chemistry (Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1985). 2nd Ed.
Journals
J. Chem. Phys., J. Phys. Chem., Chem. Phys. Letts., Chem. Phys., J. Mol. Spec., et al. may be of interest. Selected articles from a variety of sources will be placed on the reserve shelf throughout the semester.
Students are free to discuss with each other the laboratory reports, but the written material must be your own. The data given in your laboratory report must be the data that you ( and your partner) collected in the laboratory. References to all literature explicitly used in the laboratory reports must be properly noted.
The written reports should be organized approximately as follows
I. Introduction: This section should contain a clear description, in your own words, of the purpose of the experiment with background material sufficient to place the purpose in context. Based on your results you may want to raise certain questions to be answered by your experiment.
II. Theory: This section should be brief and may, in some cases, be combined with the Introduction. It is a summary, including equations, of what you expect to find as a result of your measurements. (maximum of 2 pages)
III. Data: This section should include all the relevant data in a clear and ordered format. Do not paste printed data from a software package. Instead, cut, organized, paste and photocopy the data.
IV. Error Analysis: This section should include the error analysis used to calculate any deviation from your experimental results.
V. Discussion: This section should explain any agreement and/or disagreement between theory, your experimental results and the literature results.
Maximum length 15 pages.