Professor Timothy Dransfield
Office: S-1-085
Telephone: 617-287-6143
E-Mail: timothy.dransfield@umb.edu
Reminder:
Lecture is in the Department Conference Room, S-1-89
These pages will gradually fill up with PDF files for all sorts of things - quizzes, solutions, lecture notes, handouts... but for all of them, you'll need the Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don't have it already, it's a free download - go here for more information. In addition, you’ll need to have access to a spreadsheet program for the analysis of your data. I’ll be using Microsoft Excel, which is available in the computer labs.
Tentative Schedule of Experiments
Sample research article from the Journal of Physical Chemistry
Introduction to Maximum Probable Error
Experiment #1: The Constant Volume Gas Thermometer
Experiment #2: Heat Capacity of Metals
Experiment #3: Reaction Enthalpy
Quiz Solution Excel spreadsheet
Experiment #4: Surface Tension
Experiment #5: Boiling Points of Mixtures
Experiment #6: Binary Phase Diagrams
Experiment #7: Equilibrium and Thermodynamics
Experiment #8: Kinetics
Quiz Week 2 Excel Data Solution