CHEM 312

Welcome to Thermodynamics...

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

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

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.

Student Expectations

1) Watch video,

2) 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

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

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)