Professor Timothy Dransfield
Office: S-1-085
Telephone: 617-287-6143
E-Mail: timothy.dransfield@umb.edu
office hours: Th 10:00-11:30 & F 10:00-noon
Professor Michelle Foster
Office: S-1-087
Telephone: 617-287-6906
E-Mail: michelle.foster@umb.edu
office hours: M 10:30-11:30 & Tu noon-1:00
Reminder:
Lecture is in S-2-66
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.
NOTICE: We are revising the due dates/times for various assignments. See the revised schedule for details. The Excel data for each Quiz is now due at 1:00 on Monday even if you're in the Tuesday lab. You will still bring a printout of Question 1 to the lab with you at your assigned time. Your initial data analysis for each lab is due at 5:00 on the following Tuesday. The final lab reports will each be due at 5:00 the Tuesday after that. Monday holidays and Spring Break shake this up a little bit, so please see the re-revised schedule.
REVISED Schedule of Experiments (the re-revised schedule has been emailed to all of you)
Sample research article from the Journal of Physical Chemistry
Introduction to Maximum Probable Error
Experiment #1: The Constant Volume Gas Thermometer
Quiz Excel spreadsheet for quiz
Quiz Solution and Completed Excel spreadsheet for quiz (and as template for lab)
Experiment #2: Heat Capacity of Metals
Quiz 2 Solution and Completed Excel spreadsheet for Quiz 2 (and as template for lab)
Experiment #3: Surface Tension
J. Phys. Chem Ref. Data, 12(3) 1983 817-820. International Tables of the Surface Tension of Water
Excel template for data analysis
Quiz 3 Solution Solution spreadsheet
Experiment #4: Reaction Enthalpy
Experiment #5: Boiling Points of Mixtures
Quiz Excel template for quiz 5
Solution and Spreadsheet Solution
Lab Data for ethanol / methanol solutions
Experiment #6: Binary Phase Diagrams
Supplemental handout on the derivation of equations
Data Analysis Template (please use, it's got additional data you'll need)
Experiment #7: Equilibrium and Thermodynamics
Experiment #8: Kinetics
Quiz Week 1 Data for Quiz Solution
Quiz Week 2 Data for Quiz9 Solution and Spreadsheet Solution
