Catalog Description: Laboratory work corresponding to CHEM 351.

Corequisite: CHEM 351.

Offered in the Fall semester. One semester; one credit.

Prerequisites by Topic: Same as for CHEM 351.

Goals: Same as for CHEM 351; development of laboratory techniques related to equipment used in various experiments; ability to use Microsoft Word (or the equivalent) to write laboratory reports in the style of journal articles; ability to use Microsoft Excel (or the equivalent) to construct data tables and graphs of data. It is also hoped that students will relate the abstract principles covered in the lecture to the physical realities encountered in the laboratory.

Textbook: EXPERIMENTS IN PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY (1998 Edition) by William J. Busler; Christian Brothers University.

Major Topics: Four or five of the following experiments will be performed:

Glassblowing

Bomb Calorimetry: Enthalpies of Combustion and Formation

Liquid-Vapor Equilibrium: Enthalpy of Vaporization

Solid-Liquid Binary-System Phase Diagram

Liquid-Vapor Binary-System Phase Diagram

Dipole Moment and Dielectric Constant

Spectrophotometric Determination of the pKa of an Indicator

Determination of Standard Electrode Potentials

Kinetics of Sucrose Inversion

Energy of Activation for Sucrose Inversion

Breakage Deposit: A breakage deposit of $25.00 must be paid at the beginning of the semester. This deposit, minus deductions for breakage, will be refunded after the last chemistry lab course at CBU.

Laboratory Safety and Conduct: It is the firm policy of the CBU Chemistry Department that safety glasses be worn at all times in the laboratory. Contact lenses may not be worn in the lab.

Attendance and punctuality are required.

Graded assignments include four or five lab reports, and quizzes given at the beginning of each lab period.