Course Description
This course is designed to provide laboratory experience to complement the physical chemistry lecture course, CHEM321/421-24A which presents the principles of physical chemistry that govern equilibria and reaction rates in chemical systems. Laboratory experiments will be related to properties of thermodynamic proper- ties of substances, thermochemistry, chemical and phase equilibria, reaction kinetics.
Lecture content
| Topics | |
|---|---|
| Lab 1 | Heat capacity ratios for gases |
| Lab 2 | Heats of combustion (calorimetry) |
| Lab 3 | Partial molar volume |
| Lab 4 | Vapor pressure of a pure liquid |
| Lab 5 | Acid dissociation constant (pKa) of methyl red |
| Lab 6 | Chemical equilibrium in solution |
| Lab 7 | Cyclic voltametry |
| Lab 8 | Kinetics of reaction |
Required Text
- Garland, Nibler, and Shoemaker (2009). Experiments in physical chemistry, 8th edition. McGraw-Hill, New York. ISBN: 978-0072828429