Phys-Chem Measurements

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

CHEM-323 introduces students to modern laboratory instrumentation and experimental techniques in physical chemistry. It consists of a number of experiments that use different techniques to explore fundamental concepts in chemical thermodynamics, spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, chemical equilibrium, and kinetics. Scientific methods of careful experimentation, development and testing of quantitative predictive theory in chemistry and physical sciences and effective written communication of results are developed through lectures and writing of detailed scientific reports analyzing data obtained from various laboratory experiments and the final independent project.Prerequisite or concurrent: -219. Lecture and laboratory. Fall.