PChem322 s22 w11

Welcome to a week of online PChem! As you know, 11 MC students, faculty and staff are attending the 258th bi-annual ACS meeting in San Diego, CA...YES there have been 257 previous ACS meetings (2 per year). At this years meeting there are ~11,500 abstracts/presentations, ~9,000 in-person attendees, and another ~3,000 virtual registrants.

So, in my absences, i ask you to complete the following work. On Monday March 28th, you will bring to class all of the completed work listed below in a form that can be turned in, ie. hard copies.

Monday, March 21, 2022

In class on Friday, we were able to use the Mathematica/SphericalPlot3D function to make orbital pictures. Please recreate the p and d orbitals shown below:

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Please review the HCl Vibrational-Rotational Data collected last week in lab.

Isotope effects

• 35Cl --> 37Cl
• 1H --> 2H

Reduced mass calculations

Use the following table/link to calculate the reduced mass (in kg) for ¹H⁷⁹Br and ¹H⁸¹Br

atomic masses in amu

conversion to 1 amu = 1.66054e-27 kg

Thursday, March 24, 2022

No additional assignments.

Friday, March 25, 2022

In-person meeting...see you at 11 am!