Lecture Summaries from Fall 2008

12/3/08: More kinetics practice problems - Slides - Practice problems

12/1/08: Kinetics wrap-up - Slides

11/26/08: Enzyme kinetics - Summary

11/24/08: Chain reactions & polymerization - Summary - Slides

11/21/08: Kinetics practice problems - Practice problems - Solutions

11/19/08: Pre-equilibrium, competing reactions, and unimolecular reactions - Summary - Slides

11/17/08: More on reaction mechanisms and the steady-state approximation - Summary - Slides

11/14/08: Reaction mechanisms - Summary - Slides

11/12/08: Determining rate laws - Summary - Slides

11/10/08: Introduction to chemical kinetics - Summary - Slides - Practice problems

10/31/08: Regular solutions & eutectic diagrams - Summary - Slides

10/29/08: Non-ideal binary systems - Summary - Slides

10/27/08: Ideal binary phase diagrams - Summary - Slides

10/22/08: Single-component phase equilibria - Practice Problems

10/20/08: The Clapeyron Equation - Summary - Slides

10/17/08: Phase equilibria - Summary - Slides

10/15/08: More on reaction equilibria - Summary - Slides - Practice Problems - Homework 7

10/13/08: Working with chemical equilibrium - Summary - Slides

10/10/08: Chemical equilibrium - Summary - Slides

10/8/08: Mixing entropy, chemical reactions - Summary - Slides

10/6/08: Chemical potential of an ideal gas - Summary - Slides

10/1/08: Gibbs Free Energy & equilibrium - Summary - Slides

9/29/08: Equilibrium in open systems — Gibbs Free Energy - Summary - Slides

9/26/08: Entropy changes with P, V and T and equilibrium - Summary - Slides

9/24/08: Combined first and second law - Summary - Slides

9/19/08: Practice Problems

9/17/08: The second law: entropy! - Summary - Slides

9/15/08: Practice problems

9/12/08: Enthalpy and thermochemistry - Summary - Slides - Homework 3

9/10/08: More on working with the first law: ideal gases and internal energy - Summary - Slides - Practice Problems

9/8/08: Heat capacity, working with the first law, U & H - Summary - Slides

9/5/08: Thermodynamic Variables, Systems, Processes & the First Law - Summary - Slides

9/3/08: Introduction and thermodynamic variables - Summary - Slides

Lecture Summaries from Spring 2009

4/27/09: CoPt and magnetic recording - Slides

4/24/09: Structure factor and chemical order- Summary - Slides

4/20/09: Systematic absences - Summary - Slides

4/17/09: Diffraction and Bragg’s Law - Summary - Slides

4/15/09: More complex structures - Summary - Slides - Homework #9

4/13/09: Describing crystal structures - Summary - Slides

4/10/09: 2-D and 3-D lattices - Summary - Slides - Homework #8 - HCl IR Spectrum

4/06/09: Introduction to the solid state - Summary - Slides

4/03/09: NMR Spectroscopy - Summary - Slides

4/01/09: Vibrational-rotational spectroscopy: improving our model - Summary -Slides

3/30/09: Vibrational-rotational spectroscopy - Summary - Slides

3/27/09: Combining vibrations and rotations - Summary - Slides

3/25/09: The rigid rotor - Summary - Slides

3/23/09: Modeling of vibrations with the harmonic and anharmonic oscillator - Summary - Slides - Homework 7

3/13/09: Quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator - Summary - Slides

3/11/09: Molecular spectroscopy - Summary - Slides

3/9/09: Polyatomic, conjugated molecules, and introduction to band theory - Summary - Slides

3/6/09: More on MO’s - Summary - Slides - Homework 6

3/4/09: Molecular orbitals and homonuclear diatomics - Summary - Slides

2/27/09: Introduction to molecular structure - Summary - Slides

2/25/09: Additional applications of atomic spectroscopy - Summary - Slides

2/23/09: Applications to atomic spectroscopy - Summary - Slides

2/20/09: The multi-electron atom: structure meets properties - Summary - Slides

2/18/09: Spin & its implication for the multi-electron atom - Summary - Slides - Homework 5

2/16/09: Radial distribution function, spectra, and beyond - Summary - Slides

2/13/09: The hydrogen atom: part two - Summary - Slides - Orbitals handout

2/11/09: The hydrogen atom - Summary - Slides - Hydrogen Atom Handout

2/9/09: Operators, eignevalues, eigenfunctions, and postulates of QM - Summary - Slides

2/6/09: Practice, practice - Practice Problems - Slides

2/4/09: Probability, averages, and degeneracy - Summary - Slides

2/2/09: Particle in a box and applications to conjugated molecules - Summary - Slides - PIB Handout - Homework #3

1/30/09: The Schrodinger Equation and the particle in a box (PIB) - Summary - Slides

1/28/09: Uncertainty, Wave Equations - Summary - Slides

1/26/09: Early atomic models and the road to wave-particle duality - Summary - Slides - Homework #2

1/23/09: Failures of the classical world - Summary - Slides - Updated lab schedule

1/21/09: Introduction to quantum mechanics & wave properties - Summary - Slides - Homework 1