Laboratory course to demonstrate the principles of
physical and analytical chemistry and to develop
research aptitude in chemistry. Investigation of
thermochemistry, equilibria, electrochemistry,
kinetics, spectroscopy, photochemistry, and
material science. Techniques used may include
fluorescence, UV-visible, IR, Raman, NMR, and mass
spectroscopies; diffraction; and computational
chemistry. Lecture, laboratory, oral
presentations.