CHEM 312

Welcome to Thermodynamics...

Fall 2024

Spring 2022

Fall 2020

Syllabus

Fall 2017

Homework

HW List (Fall 2019)

Laboratory

Lab 1: Intro/NOVA

Introductory Comments

- Being Proactive vs. Reactive

Proactive vs. Reactive (10 mins)

- What is your attitude towards learning?

- What is your mindset at work/school?

- What is your attitude towards change?

- Notes (handout)

Steven Covey (optional)

Franklin Planner (optional)

Franklin Planner Example page (handout)

Alternative Weekly Planner (handout)

Activity 1 - View NOVA Video

NOVA: Absolute Zero: Part One, The Conquest of Cold

Video - NOVA: Absolute Zero, The Conquest of Cold (first 52 mins)

Transcript

Part One, "The Conquest of Cold," opens in the 1600s when the nature of cold and even heat were a complete mystery. Are they different phenomena or aspects of some unified feature of nature? Are they added to a substance or qualities of the substance itself? The experiments that settled these questions helped stoke the Industrial Revolution, which exploited such fundamental insights as that heat always flows from hot to cold.

NOVA Student Expectations

a) Watch video,

b) take notes in carbon copy (CC) lab notebook,

- make note of all historical names mentioned and in what context are they noted (you might need to expand on this later)

- make note the years

1) Document all historical people mentioned throughout the program (please use web or transcript linked above to correct all name spellings),

2) At ~4.50 min there is an experiment done with salt/ice/water...describe and briefly explain...

3) At ~8:45 min there is an experiment done by Boyle...describe and briefly explain...

4) What tool did Boyle need to make his research better? (hint: ~11 mins)

5) List the names of the 3 thermometer scales...2 are mentioned first (~12 mins) then the 3rd later...

6) Who proposed the erroneous "Caloric Theory"?

7) Who disproved the "Caloric Theory"?...and what did this person have in common with the person who proposed the theory?

8) What was Tudor's 1st "ice" ship called?

9) What was the name of the book written by Carnot?

10) What job did James Prescott Joule hold while developing his contribution to thermodynamics?

11) Who is attributed to inventing the frozen food industry?

12) Who is attributed to inventing "air cooling"?

c) turn in CC (at end of lab period).

Activity 2 - Laptop Check/Igor

a) Install Igor software on your computer...go to here and download version 8.0. Although you can use the software for a 30 day trial, I ask you to register/activate your copy using the info in this image/below (click on it to expand) ->

VAPG-PDSX-GZLA-XPKY-MJYU-YLUX-KNS <- cut and paste:

b) Introduction to Igor

b) make a simple Igor plot:

- wave_01 --> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

- wave_02 --> 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60

• include axes labels x = time; y = number

c: Import "Load waves":

- Click here...and then "save as"

- Note that this file has header information.

• include axes labels x = Magnetic Field (Gauss); y = Intensity

d) Make a new Layout and add both graphs...add you name...then print

EDITTING STOPS HERE...

Lab 2: Temperature (week 2)

1) Intro to Vernier data collection devices (if needed)

2) Thermal Imaging Cameras (project)

3) Glassblowing, part 1 of 2

4) Thermometers/Temp Measuring devices

5) Determination of Absolute Zero (P vs T --> extrapolate to P=0)

Lab 3: Temperature (week 3)

1) Glassblowing, part 2 of 2

How Its Made: Thermometer

2) Thermal Imaging Presentations

3) Sous Vide Cooking (eggs/meat)

PID Controller build

PID Controllers

PID Controller Activity

Lab 4: Heat Capacity (week 4)

Molar Heat Capacity plots in Igor

Sous Vide cooking

Calibrate thermometer

Adiabatic irreversible expansion Lab...data collection, with Intro to Igor

Lab 5: (week 5)

1) Data analysis using Igor (analyze Adiabatic expansion data)

2) Demo Parr "Pressure Reactor".

3) Peltier Experiment

Intro view

Tech sheet on TEC1-12706

Data Collection

- Voltage vs Temperature (1AA, 2AA, 3AA)

- Temperature vs Voltage (hot and cold objects using water bath)

Data Analysis

- Rate of heat separation (initial rates)

- Determination of temperature offset vs temperature differential

4) Soft drinks

Lab 6: Balloons/heat capacity/demos/calorimetry and more (week 6)

1) Pressure vs. Volume of a non-fixed wall system (ie. a balloon)

2) Heat Capacity as a function of T.

3) Demonstrations

Thermal expansion coefficient/Cloud in a bottle

Paintball gun thermodynamics

4) Building better solution calorimeter

ThinkerCAD/3D printing

Lab 8: Solution Calorimetry (week 8)

Acid-base neutralization rxn (NaOH/KOH) + HCl -->

Calc using heats for formation

Verify Hess' Law

Drierite is a dessicant

CaSO₄ + indicator (cobalt(II) chloride - blue-anhydrous or pink-hydrated)

Lab 11: (week 11)

Compressor Lab (under development)