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Week 0: Orientation and Pre-Semester Training (No Lab Meeting)
These assignments will help you prepare for the semester and will introduce you to the course policies and structure.
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Assumed Prerequisite Knowledge
- All material from pre-requisite General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Physical Chemistry Courses.
- Specific knowledge from Physical Chemistry
- Particle in the box model
- Rotational and vibrational coupling (rotovibrational) spectroscopy of diatomic molecules
- Equilibrium thermodynamics
- Reaction kinetics
- Computation of electronic structure
- Specific material from college-level math pre-requisites
- Derivatives and partial derivatives
- Matrices and their operations
Week 1: Introduction to MatLab for Data Analysis
Learn how to use MatLab for data analysis in this course.
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Week 2: Problem Session on Error Analysis
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Week 3: Absorption Spectra of Dyes
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Week 4-5: Rotation-Vibrational Spectroscopy
Week 4, Part I
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Week 5, Parts II and III
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Week 6: Flex week
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Week 7-10: How Should Apples be Prepared for a Fruit Salad?
Week 7, Apples Part I: How does apple extract and pH effect browning?
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Week 8, Apples Part II: What can inhibit browning, and how?
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Week 9 - SPRING BREAK (no lab or assignments due)
Week 10, Apples Part III: Finish any lab work or data analysis as necessary
[this part of the experiment is under construction - if we can get it to work, we'll do it.]
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Week 11-13: Writing Workshop
Your final graded assignment in this course is a manuscript-style paper. This 3-part workshop is meant to support you in your writing process.
Week 11, Writing Workshop Part I
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Week 12, Writing Workshop Part II
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Week 13, Writing Workshop Part III
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Week 14: Clean up, Check out, Course Surveys
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Week 15: No Lab Meeting
No lab meeting this week (because of short week). Any late assignments must be submitted prior to end of day on LDOC. No work will be acepted for scoring after this time.