Physical Chemistry Developing a Dynamic Curriculum

by Schwenz, Richard W.; Moore, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9780841225039
• ISBN10: 0841225036
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-05-05
• Publisher: American Chemical Society

Summary

Offers concrete recommendations for modernizing the physical chemistry lecture and laboratory curriculum and provides tested modern experiments that are now in use at a variety of institutions across the country. Presents broadly organized essays on the content and presentation of topics in modern computational chemistry, state-to-state collision dynamics, atmospheric chemistry, and solid-state chemistry and its interfaces with gases and liquids. Contains sections on specific lecture materials (examples and demonstrations), specific problems which may be solved outside the classroom, and general laboratory experiments appropriate for undergraduates without access to research-level laboratories.

Table of Contents

Laboratory Safety

The Laboratory Notebook

Computational Chemistry in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory: Ab Initio Molecular Orbital Calculations

State-to-State Dynamics

Atmospheric Chemistry

Aspects of Surface Science for Emphasis in the Physical Chemistry Curriculum

A Consortium-Based Approach to Laboratory Modernization: The Pew Physical Chemistry Project

A Hands-On Helium-Neon Laser for Teaching the Principles of Laser Operation

Basic Laser Spectroscopy for the Physical Chemistry Laboratory

Three Applications of a Nitrogen-Laser-Pumped Dye Laser in the Undergraduate Laboratory: From Spectroscopy to Photochemistry

Flash Photolysis of Benzophenone

Laser Photooxidative Chemistry of Quadricyclane

Multiphoton Ionization Spectroscopy of Cesium Atoms

Picosecond Laser Spectroscopy

Experiments in Laser Raman Spectroscopy for the Physical Chemistry Laboratory

Time-Resolved Thermal Lens Calorimetry with a Helium-Neon Laser

Determination of Thermodynamic Excess Functions by Combination of Several Techniques Including Laser Light Scattering

Fluorescence Probes of b-Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexes

Measurements of Fluorescence Intensity and Lifetime

Huckel Molecular Orbitals

Measurement of the Photoelectric Effect

High-Resolution Vibration-Rotation Spectra of Deuterated Acetylenes

NMR Relaxation Times

Polymers in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory: An Integrated Experimental Program

Determination of Polymer Molecular Weight in an Aqueous-Based Solvent System by Gel Permeation Chromatography

Thermodynamic Properties of Elastomers

Oxygen Binding to Hemoglobin

Mass Spectrometer or Mass Selective Detector Used to Study Gas-Phase Reactions

An Introductory Experiment in Cyclic Voltammetry: The Oxidation of Ferrocene

Critical Point and Equation of State Experiment

Joule-Thomson Refrigerator and Heat Capacity Experiment

A Monte Carlo Method for Chemical Kinetics

An Integrated Writing Program in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory

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