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1.00 Credits
A survey of the tools employed for the effective and efficient search for and the retrieval and analysis of chemical information including online databases, chemical abstracts, patents, handbooks, encyclopedias, and comprehensive works. Preparation for Course P: CHM 251 or CHM 255 or CHM 261. Cr. 1. Notes If you are majoring in this discipline, you may want to consider the Science and Engineering Research Semester. See information under Arts and Sciences (Part 4).
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
May be repeated for credit. Preparation for Course P: consent of instructor. Cr. 1-4. Variable Title (V.T.) Notes If you are majoring in this discipline, you may want to consider the Science and Engineering Research Semester. See information under Arts and Sciences (Part 4).
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4.00 Credits
Required of students majoring in chemistry. Quantitative measurements on complex chemical systems that show matrix effects or require isolation of a compound prior to its determination; general approaches to quantitative problems at the trace level; critical comparisons of competitive procedures with emphasis upon principles of separation process, including chromatography; recognition and evaluation of possible sources of error; approaches for optimizing conditions so as to minimize time and/or effort required to attain prescribed levels of accuracy and precision. Preparation for Course P: chm 218 and one year of organic chemistry. Cr. 4. Hours Class 2, Lab. 6. Notes If you are majoring in this discipline, you may want to consider the Science and Engineering Research Semester. See information under Arts and Sciences (Part 4).
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3.00 Credits
Interpretation and correlation of the physical and chemical properties of inorganic compounds in terms of their electronic configurations and molecular structures. A development of the earlier treatment of the representative elements and the transition elements including magnetic and spectral properties of coordination compounds. Preparation for Course P: CHM 218; C: CHM 384. Cr. 3. Notes If you are majoring in this discipline, you may want to consider the Science and Engineering Research Semester. See information under Arts and Sciences (Part 4).
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1.00 Credits
Preparation for Course C: CHM 342. Cr. 1. Hours Lab. 3. Notes If you are majoring in this discipline, you may want to consider the Science and Engineering Research Semester. See information under Arts and Sciences (Part 4).
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3.00 Credits
An introductory course in physical chemistry. Not open to chemistry majors, but suitable for other science majors. Topics to be covered include states of matter, thermodynamics, physical equilibrium, solutions, chemical equilibria, quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, and kinetics. Preparation for Course P: CHM 116 and MA 229. Cr. 3. Notes If you are majoring in this discipline, you may want to consider the Science and Engineering Research Semester. See information under Arts and Sciences (Part 4).
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2.00 Credits
Preparation for Course C: CHM 384. Cr. 2. Hours Lab. 6. Notes If you are majoring in this discipline, you may want to consider the Science and Engineering Research Semester. See information under Arts and Sciences (Part 4).
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4.00 Credits
Kinetic theory of gases, gas equations of state, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Classical thermodynamics including the first, second, and third laws, spontaneity, chemical potential, phase equilibria. Introduction to quantum mechanics: postulates of quantum theory, linear operators, Heisenberg indeterminary principle, Pauli principle, orbital and spin angular momentum. Simple quantum systems such as particle-in-a-box, harmonic oscillator, hydrogen atom. Symmetry. Atomic and molecular spectroscopy. Preparation for Course P: CHM 116, MA 261, and PHYS 251. Cr. 4. Notes If you are majoring in this discipline, you may want to consider the Science and Engineering Research Semester. See information under Arts and Sciences (Part 4).
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2.00 Credits
Basic kinetics and chemical reactions: first, second, third order reactions, elementary steps, macroscopic view in terms of concentrations and activities, calculation of equilibrium constants, thermodynamic interpretation of transition state theory. Solution thermodynamics: pure solutions, mixtures, ideal solutions (Raoult's law), ideally dilute solutions (Henry's law), Debye-Hückel theory, colligative properties. Electrochemistry: relationship to thermodynamics and chemical equilibrium. Photochemistry, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, electrical and magnetic properties of matterPreparation for Course P: 383. Cr. 2. Notes If you are majoring in this discipline, you may want to consider the Science and Engineering Research Semester. See information under Arts and Sciences (Part 3).
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2.00 Credits
Statistical mechanics: partition function and ensembles, translational, vibrational, rotational, and electronic partition functions, microscopic view of thermodynamics. Kinetics and reaction rate theories: collision theory, conventional and variational transition state theory, RRKM theory. Reaction dynamics: quantum scattering and classical trajectories. Surface chemistry and solid state chemistry. Preparation for Course P: CHM 383. Cr. 2. Notes If you are majoring in this discipline, you may want to consider the Science and Engineering Research Semester. See information under Arts and Sciences (Part 4).
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