Enhanced Thermochemical Laboratories for a Modern Chemistry Curriculum

化学系正在购买热化学设备，以更新、扩大和改善其物理化学实验室的热化学重点。学生进行实验，包括观察和测量临界温度和压力、熔点和熔合热、相图、聚合物相变和反应热。这些实验旨在通过现代化现有设备和包括学生操作的计算机数据收集和分析来提高学生对热化学过程的理解。这种方法为进一步的基于物理化学的研究和课程奠定了基础，并为学生准备了在当代科学中流行的化学观察和分析的技术方法。

The Department of Chemistry is purchasing thermochemical equipment to update, broaden, and improve the thermochemical emphasis of its physical chemistry laboratory. Students perform experiments involving the observation and measurement of critical temperature and pressure, fusion points and heats of fusion, phase diagrams, polymer phase transitions, and heats of reactions. These experiments are designed to improve student understanding of thermochemical processes by modernizing existing equipment and including student operated computer data collection and analysis. This approach lays the foundation for further Physical Chemistry based research and coursework, and prepares students for the technical approach to chemical observation and analysis prevalent in contemporary science.