Syllabus

Chemistry 358

Spring 2001

"The way you do science is to guess the answer, calculate the consequences, and then compare it to experiment." - Feynmann on Nova
 

Week Starts Monday Wednesday Friday
Jan. 8 Black Body Radiation and Quantum Mechanics History

Chapter 9

 Einstein and Bohr and H Spectrum deBroglie and Particle Waves Schrodinger Equation- Particle in Box 

Wave Motion Lab (10)
Jan. 15

 

 Vacation More PIB and Quantum Mechanics Postulates Review

9.15 MC, 16, 17, 19

Lab-H spectrum (30)
Jan. 22 Exam 1 Separation of Variables-2 d PIB Chapter 10 

1 D and 3-D H atom-Separation of Variables
Jan 29 Review and p344 Exam 2 He

Lab-He Calc (10)
Feb. 5 Multielectronic atoms Atomic Spectroscopy-Term Symbols x-ray spectroscopy

X-ray Theoretical Calculation (30)
Feb. 112 Review Exam 3 Hybrid Orbitals

Chapter 11
Feb. 19 H2+ Huckel MO Lab-Theoretical Huckel MO (30 )
Feb. 26 Homonuclear Diatomics Exam 4 Chapter 13

Separation of rotational, translation, etc.
March 5 Rotational Spectroscopy  Rotational-Vibrational Spectroscopy .Chapter 14
Electronic spectroscopy of Molecules
Lab-IR of HCl DCl (30) 
March 1 Exam 5 Statistical Mech. Fundementals

Chapter 16

 Partition Functions
March 26 Entropy Calc. Energy and heat Capacities Lab IR of CO and CO2 and their molar entropies (30)
April 2 Exam 6 Kinetic Theory of Gases

Chapter 17

 Chemical Kinetics

Chapter 18

 Lab-Isotope substitution (30)
Apr. 9 Temperature Dependence of Kinetics Review Reaction Mechanisms Free Radical Reaction Mechanisms Chapter 20
Enzyme Catalysis
Enzyme Catalysis (30) 
April 16 Absolute Reaction Rate Theory 

Chapter 19

 PhotoChemistry Good Friday
April 23 Acid Base Catalysis Exam 7 Review

May 1 10:15 am Final Exam
Grades will be based on the following:

Hour Exams 35% Homework 20% Labs 20% Final Exam 25%

No makeup exams will be given. If you miss one and have an excused absence, your final exam grade will be used for the exam grade.

You are not being realistic if you expect to pass the course without attending class every day and doing your homework every day. This is not a course where you can memorize some facts the night before an exam and then do well on the exam.