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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1999  > April  >
In the Laboratory
An Introductory Experience for Physical Chemistry: Victor Meyer Revisited
Frederick A. Kundell
Department of Chemistry, Henson School of Science and Technology, Salisbury State University, Salisbury, MD 21801
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April 1999
Vol. 76 No. 4
p. 542
Abstract
An introductory experience for experimental physical chemistry is presented on JCE Online. The experiment incorporates a class determination of random error along with the determination of the molecular weight of a volatile liquid using a modified Victor Meyer procedure. Rapid data collection allows the class to amass a sizable data set for analysis. The experimental presentation contains a detailed write-up on the handling of random error and its propagation in subsequent calculations. A slight simplification of the Guedens et al. (J. Chem. Educ. 1993, 70, 776-779 and 838-841) treatment of statistical experimental error is presented at a student level. It can also be used as a trial experiment for report writing. Since it is based on the ideal gas law, it is consistent, in most cases, with the lecture material in a physical chemistry lecture-laboratory sequence.
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Student's handout s, instructor notes, and figures for the laboratory experiment are available as six WordPerfect 7 documents that have been compressed into zip (for Windows) and sit (for Macintosh) files. The material can also be accessed as a pdf file using Acrobat Reader.
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 Kundell, Frederick A. J. Chem. Educ. 1999 76 542.
*  Keywords
 Physical Chemistry; Laboratory Instruction; Computational Chemistry; Gases; Undergraduate Research
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Last Updated:		 June 14, 1999
November 22, 2005
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