CH417 - Physical Chemistry Laboratory

CH417
Physical Chemistry Laboratory
Fall 2009
John L. Hardwick

The currently scheduled office hours...
...and lecture schedule.
You can also look up your laboratory schedule here if you need to.

As an example of style in writing, we offer this link to an interesting report on combustion kinetics. Another paper by the same author on incoherent upconversion of microwave radiation may also be of interest. There is an excellent article from the Western Research Laboratory of Digital Equipment Corporation on some unusual illumination systems. Finally, there is a report from MIT on filtering and amplification of electromagnetic radiation.

We have many of the lectures available in Adobe Acrobat format. See the lecture schedule and follow the links to individual lectures.

The Mathematica notebook to derive the Clausius equation of state coefficients in terms of the critical constants may be found here, and a printout is here. Note that the commonly used web site by David Young is, at last reading, incorrect: it scrambles the coefficients a, b, and c somewhere between their definition and their evaluation. The reference by Shah and Thodos cited by that web page makes the same mistake. You can convince yourself of the problem by looking at the dimensions of each parameter: b and c must, as defined in the equation of state, have the dimension of volume per mole, while a must have the dimension pressure over (temperature times molar volume squared).

The SklogWiki site has now been corrected. The moral hazard of using results you don't understand still remains.

Last update: 11/20/2009