Chemistry-Study and teaching; Wilderness areas; Parks, National
Homepage for the 2004 orientation adventure, Sequoia National Park, which took place August 24-27, 2004. Includes details on the participants and activities, with links to pictures taken on various days.
Picture of various group members posing by Long Lake, one of the Cottonwood Lakes. The photograph was taken on the third day of the 2002 orientation adventure, the New Army Pass backpack.
Chemistry-Study and teaching; Chemical bonds; Transition metals; Molecular orbitals
Introduction. The purpose of this handout is to provide a simple model for the bonding in transition-metal complexes as a framework for understanding and interpreting the most important properties of these complexes. We shall deal mostly with the...
Chemistry-Study and teaching; Voltammetry; Electrochemistry; Solution (Chemistry)
Experiment with the goal of gaining an understanding of anodic stripping voltammetry and an understanding of the factors involved in performing quantitative analytical determinations, through the determinations of amounts of copper.
Chemistry-Study and teaching; Solution (Chemistry); High performance liquid chromatography
Experiment with purpose of quantifying the caffeine content of a diet cola sample using high performance liquid chromatography. The separation of components in diet soft drinks is also involved.
Chemistry-Study and teaching; Adsorption; Molecular sieves; Gases
Experiment involving studying the adsorption of gaseous nitrogen and dimethyl ether on a molecular sieve; it also provides experience with manipulations on a vacuum line.
Chemistry-Study and teaching; Absorption spectra; Molecular spectroscopy; Thermodynamics; Statistical mechanics
Experiment involving an introduction to molecular spectroscopy and the extraction of molecular parameters and thermodynamic properties from an analysis of the vibrational fine structure of an electronic band spectrum of gaseous iodine.
Chemistry-Study and teaching; Spectroscopy, Nuclear magnetic resonance;
Experiment designed to introduce the fundamental principles and practice of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a form of NMR spectroscopy, by obtaining and examining a two-dimensional image of the stem or bud from a plant.
Chemistry-Study and teaching; Spectroscopy, Nuclear magnetic resonance
Experiment previously used in the course and focused on selective irradiation and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), specifically involving homonuclear decoupling and the NOE (nuclear Overhauser enhancement) difference experiment.
Chemistry-Study and teaching; Chemical kinetics; Solution (Chemistry)
Experiment involving the study of the kinetics of the reaction between iron(III) and thiocyanate ions by the stopped-flow method, using the HiTech Stopped-Flow System and a digital oscilloscope.
Chemistry-Study and teaching; Handouts; Statistical mechanics
Handout summarizing the statistical mechanical results for a gaseous diatomic molecule xy; this can also be seen as a summary of formulae from statistical mechanics.
