Chemistry 267 Experimental Physical Chemistry Winter Quarter 2012

1. General Information Laboratory: Students will work individually. During the first week of the quarter students should sign up for a laboratory period with Dr. Zbigniew Gasyna (known as ZG), in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory which is in Jones 104-107. A mathematica exercise will be completed during the first week. There will be one laboratory period during the second week of the quarter during which time students will do the Electronics Exercise. During the third through tenth weeks of the quarter each student will have one laboratory period on one day between Monday and Thursday every other week. During these sessions students will do four experiments. On Fridays there will a laboratory period available to students who are not able to complete the experiment during the scheduled day of that week. A laboratory period is one afternoon from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Lecture: The lecture is from 9:00-10:20AM on Tuesday and Thursday in Ryerson 251. 2. Instructor Greg Engel, GCIS E119, 834-0818, (gsengel@uchicago.edu) 3. Laboratory Director Dr. Zbigniew Gasyna, GHJ l04B, 702-7051, (zgasyna@uchicago.edu) 4. Laboratory assistants TBA 5. Books No single book is adequate and therefore no text is required for this course (useful books are on reserve, and Ill make a few recommendations so that you can buy the best books for your particular interests/needs). Class lecture notes will be provided. Material useful for various topics covered in the lecture part of the course is indicated by asterisks in the Reserve List. Last year many students purchased Skoog, 6th edition and Shoemaker, Garland, and Nibler.

6. Experiments Students will all do laboratory #1, plus four of the other experiments: 1. Electronic exercise 2. Laser flash photolysis 3. Nanosecond time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy 4. Electronic spectroscopy 5. Infrared spectroscopy 6. Microwave spectroscopy 7. **Fourier transform NMR. Spin-lattice relaxation. 8. Mass spectrometry of gases 9. Scanning tunneling microscopy 10. Spectroscopy and Synthesis of Nanoparticles ** the NMR location has moved, but we will still offer this lab if students are strongly interested. The location is in GCIS, and it will make the logistics a bit tricky. 7. Preparation for Laboratory Work Each student will be expected to study the assigned experiment in advance of the day on which the experiment will be performed. The laboratory assistants will be available to answer questions and to discuss experimental physical chemistry in general. They will not give lengthy private tutorials to students who are unprepared or are completely unfamiliar with the experiment or with the apparatus. Students who are not dressed properly for the laboratory will be asked to leave the laboratory. Proper dress includes long pants or long skirts (i.e. ankle length), safety glasses, and closed toe shoes. Students are expected to arrive at the laboratory on time and ready to work. Chronic or severe tardiness may result in grading penalties. 8. Data All data and experimental observations will be recorded in ink in bound laboratory notebooks with numbered pages. Only copies of the data and reports will be handed in; the original must remain in the notebook. Do not leave blank spaces or pages in your notebook to fill in later without identifying it as such. Do not use loose sheets of paper. 9. Laboratory Reports All reports must be completed individually. Scholarly references may be consulted (and referenced as such). Other references (last years reports, colleagues reports, etc MAY NOT BE CONSULTED). Reports must be typed; handwritten reports will be returned ungraded. A short report template will be provided. Carefully formatted and labelled graphs and tables should be used to present raw and derived data where appropriate. If hand-drawn, these should be neat and easily legible. The student is responsible for ensuring that a paper copy of all work is received directly by 2

either his or her TA or Dr. Gasyna. No credit will be given for lost reports or emailed reports. (e.g. reports left in front of the TA office door have, in the past, been thrown away by janitors.) Keep a separate copy of your report. Students will be required to submit three types of laboratory reports: One publication quality lab report will be required. This report will be refereed and evaluated by your peers anonymously, and grades will be assigned by the teaching staff. Four smaller (<5 page) experiment summaries will be required. A template for these reports will be provided. These reports will be simple, but will require effort to evaluate the laboratory data and experiment. Feedback from these reports may help you with the more significant writing assignments. Two ONE PAGE referee reports will be required. These reports should be a critical evaluation of your peers lab reports. You will be graded on your analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of your colleagues work. Unprofessional comments will not be tolerated and may result in failure of the assignment. (You need not be complimentary, but you must be professional!)

The publication quality laboratory reports(see J. Phys Chem. B for examples) and must contain the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. A summary/abstract describing in a few sentences what has been measured and what has been learned from the experiment. An introduction describing the experiment and giving the theoretical background. A short description of the apparatus and the method including any changes in procedure from those given in the lab manual. The raw data that were actually measured. An analysis of the data; that is, how you got from the raw data to the quantity that you were trying to measure. Show examples of calculations and results. Discussion and conclusions. References (Optional) Suggestions on how the experiment could be improved. These might be suggestions regarding the lab manual, modifications of the experimental procedure, or modifications of the apparatus.

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Due dates Each laboratory report is due at the start of the student's next scheduled laboratory period following the scheduled completion of the experiment, i.e. roughly two weeks after the experiment is completed. Late reports will have 10 points subtracted for every day or fraction of a day that they are late. Reports turned in more than 72 hours late will not be graded. (Please note that this can quickly result in failure of the course.) Reports for experiments performed during the last two weeks of the quarter are due Friday by 5:00 pm of the tenth week. This will rush those who are scheduled to do an experiment during the tenth week, but there is no way around this. Under no circumstances whatsoever will reports be accepted after this due date.

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Absence Policy We understand that many of you must leave campus for various reasons (medical school interviews, sports, graduate school visits, exotic Tahitian vacations, family emergencies, etc.). If you will be away, you must make arrangements in advance to complete your laboratory work ahead of time so that you do not miss due dates. Medical and family emergencies will be treated on a case by case basis elective absences (interpreted broadly) will receive no special consideration.

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Examinations There will be 18 lectures, one midterm examination and a final examination. The examinations will be based on lecture material, recommended reading, problem sets, and the laboratory experiments. The final exam will be on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, from 10:30-12:30 AM (subject to final confirmation by the registrars posting on timeschedules.uchicago.edu).

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Grades 5% 15% 15% 20% 30% 15% Homework Midterm Final Major Lab Reports Minor Lab Reports Referee Reports

Please note that failure to do the lab reports will result in a very poor grade for the course. The course will not be curved A level work will result in an A, and C level work will result in a C. It is our sincere hope that you will all perform at a very high level through the quarter, thereby earning a high grade. Please help your classmates and look to one another as well as the teaching staff for guidance. 13. Academic Dishonesty Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Cite all of your references. You may not use other students reports (of any vintage). Fudging your data will not be tolerated. For example, failing to include certain data points (without explaining the statistical justification) or changing data or borrowing others data (unless provided by the TA) all constitute a breach of your scientific obligations. Identifying yourself on anonymous referee reports or outside the cover page of your laboratory reports will also be considered improper. The integrity of the review process is extremely important for science. IF DISCOVERED, ACADEMIC DISHONESTY WILL BE TREATED EXTREMELY HARSHLY AND THE PENALTIES WILL NOT BE LIMITED TO THE VALUE OF THE ASSIGNMENT.

CHEMISTRY 267 EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY WINTER QUARTER 2012 RESERVE LIST

QD457.S560 1996

Shoemaker, D.P., Garland, C.W. and Nibler, J.W. Experiments in Physical Chemistry. Skoog, D.A., Holler, FJ., and Nieman, T.A. Principles of Instrumental Analysis, 6th edition Taylor, J.R. An introduction to error analysis : the study of uncertainties in physical measurement. Wilson, E.B., Introduction to Scientific Research. Moore, J.H., Davis, C.C. and Coplan, M.A., Building Scientific Apparatus. Malmstadt & Enke, Digital Electronics for Scientists. Bevington, P., Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Scientist.

QD79.I5S58 2006

QC39 .T4 1997

Q180.A1 W75 Q185.M660 1989 TK7872.C7M26 QA278.B57

TK7815.H670 1989 Horowitz, P. and Hill, W., The Art of Electronics. TK7878.4.M290 QC355.J522 QC166.D91l QH323.5.P77 QD461.P8300 1983 QA278.2.D7 1998 QC173.H587 v.I QC173.H587 v II QC168.L50 QC451.S252 Malmstadt, Enke and Crouch, Electronics and Instrumentation for Scientists. Jenkins, F.A. and White, H.E., Fundamentals of Optics. Dushman, S., Scientific Foundations of Vacuum Technique. Pollard, J.H., Handbook of Numerical and Statistical Techniques. Bullen, GJ., Problems in Molecular Structure. Draper, N.R. and Smith, H., Applied Regression Analysis. Herzberg, G., Spectra of Diatomic Molecules. Huber, K. P. and Herzberg, G., Constants of Diatomic Molecules. Liepmann, H.W. and Roshko, A, Elements of Gas Dynamics. Sawyer, R.A., Experimental Spectroscopy. QC355.2.B45 Hecht, E. and Zajac, A., Optics. 5

Expected Lecture Schedule and Due Dates 1/3 (Mathematica lab) Electronics Lecture Basics and Linear Devices 1/5 (Mathematica lab) Electronics Lecture Oscilloscope 1/10 (electronics lab) Prof. Engel out of town. Electronics Lecture to be delivered by a TA. 1/12 (electronics lab) Lecture Cancelled (will be replaced before final with a review session). 1/17 (First elective lab) Statistics Lecture Statistical Concepts, Distributions, and Sources of Error 1/19 (First elective lab) Statistics Lecture Sources and Types of Noise 1/24 (First elective lab) Statistics Lecture Regression, Correlation, and Statistical Modelling 1/26 (First elective lab) Fourier Transforms 1/31 (Second elective lab) OpticsLight Properties, Behavior and modelling 2/2 (Second elective lab) Lasers Theory, Types, Safety 2/7 (Second elective lab) Optical elements and specifications 2/9 (Second elective lab) Midterm Exam 2/14 (Third elective lab) Optics & Electrooptics 2/16 (Third elective lab) Spectroscopy electronic, infrared, Microwave 2/21 (Third elective lab) - SpectroscopyNMR 2/23 (Third elective lab) -MicroscopySTM, TEM, AFM, Optical 2/28 (Fourth elective lab) -Vacuum Pumps 3/1 (Fourth elective lab)NanomaterialsQuantum Dots, Nanotubes, 3/6 (Fourth elective lab)Computational ChemistryGaussian 3/8 (Fourth elective lab) Make Up Lecture 3/11 Last date for submission of any written work, including the last lab report. 3/13 Final Exam, 10:30am