Chemistry 834 Advanced Analytical Chemistry 1

swain@chemistry.msu.edu

314 Chemistry

353-1090

Office Hours: Anytime

blanchard@chemistry.msu.edu

328 Chemistry

353-1105

Office Hours: Anytime

dspencea@msu.edu

4319 IQ Building

353-1116

Office Hours: MWF 9:00 – 10:00

LECTURE

The lectures are given Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10:20 to 11:10 AM in Room 183 Chemistry. A tentative lecture schedule appears on the next page.

OFFICE HOURS/HELP SESSION

Please do your best to utilize the office hour listed above for each professor; however, if you need help and can’t make the listed times, feel free to stop by our offices. Typically, if we are available, we will be able to assist you. You can always email us if you would like to set up a specific time for a meeting.

TEXT

We will provide lecture notes and other resources for the course. The electrochemistry portion of the course will employ several chapters in Electrochemical Methods Fundamentals and Applications by Allen J. Bard and Larry R. Faulkner, John Wiley & Sons, 2001. We also use this text in other courses and recommend you obtain a copy.

GRADING

Grading will be based on your performance in each of the three modules. Each module will conclude with an hour exam and may contain quizzes, problem sets, or other graded projects.

Problem Sets: Problem sets will be given to aid in illustrating the concepts and principles discussed in the lectures. All students are required to do the problem sets because the ability to work these problems is often related to performance on the examinations, and is vital for understanding concepts.

Quizzes: During some portions of the course, we will have daily quizzes to help motivate you to prepare for class and also to engage you in the material.

Examinations: Three hour examinations will be given in the course. The dates of these exams are:

Hour Exam I: Wednesday, October 5, in class

Hour Exam II: Wednesday, November 9, in class

Final Exam III: Monday, December 12, Room 183 - tentative

Grading: The grading of the course will be a total of your 3 module scores; each module will be a combination of your score on the modular exam and problems sets, quizzes, or other projects (if assigned).

	Percentage of total grade
Module I	33.3%
Module II	33.3%
Module III	33.3%

ABSENCES FROM EXAMINATIONS

If an exam is missed due to a legitimate reason the exam may be made up during a specified time period to be decided by the student and the professor. All absences must be brought to the attention of the professor before the exam. Delays may result in no make-up opportunity. In fact, there is usually no excuse for not notifying the professor in advance of a missed laboratory period or exam. Make up exams may be substituted for an excused missed regular exam.

ATTENDANCE

Attendance at all lectures and lab sessions is expected in CEM 834. The course lecture will be the main mode of communication between the professor and the students. In addition, most handouts, quizzes and information will be given at the beginning of the lecture hour. Therefore, do not be late.

ADA COMPLIANCE

Michigan State University is committed to providing equal opportunity for participation in all programs, services, and activities. Requests for accommodations by persons with disabilities may be made by contacting the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities by phone at 517-884-RCPD or through the web at rcpd.msu.edu. Once your eligibility for an accommodation has been determined, you will be issued a verified individual services accommodation (“VISA”) form. Please present this form to Professors Blanchard, Bruening or Spence at the start of the semester and/or at least two weeks prior to the accommodation date (test, final exam, homework, etc.). Requests received after this date will be honored whenever possible.

Religious Observances / Other Absences from Class

It is the responsibility of students who plan to be absent from class at certain times throughout the semester, due to religious holidays or other reasons, to make arrangements in advance with the instructor. Course notes or handouts may be obtained from the instructor if these conditions are met. If a make-up exam is required, the instructor retains the right to determine the content of the exam and the conditions of administration, giving due consideration to equitable treatment.

Academic Honesty

Academic dishonesty at Michigan State University is defined by the General Student Regulations as conduct that violates the fundamental principles of truth, honesty, and integrity. The following conduct is specifically cited:

Cheating - Providing or accepting assistance with completing assignments or examinations, without proper authorization.

Plagiarism - Supplying or using work or answers that are not one's own, without proper citation.

Fabrication- Faking data or results.

Sabotage- Interfering through any means with another's academic work.

Deception- Providing false information - e.g., giving a false excuse for missing a deadline or falsely claiming to have submitted work.

Students share with the faculty a responsibility for maintaining the integrity of scholarship, grades, and professional standards. CEM 834 adheres to the policies on academic honesty specified in General Student Regulation 1.0, Protection of Scholarship and Grades; the all-University Policy on Integrity of Scholarship and Grades; and Ordinance 17.00, Examinations. (See Spartan Life: Student Handbook and Resource Guide and/or the MSU Web site www.msu.edu.)

Unless authorized by your instructor, you are expected to complete all course assignments, including homework, lab work, quizzes, tests and exams, without assistance from any source. You are expected to develop original work for this course; therefore, you may not submit course work you completed for another course to satisfy the requirements for this course. Also, you are not authorized to use the www.allmsu.com Web site or similar web sites to complete any course work in this course.

Students who violate these rules will be assigned a failing grade for the course.

LECTURE SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

Lecture	Date	Topic	Lecturer

Part 2 - Electronics
1	August 30	Introduction – Coulomb’s law and electric fields and potentials	Blanchard
2	September 1	AC, DC, propagation and attenuation	Blanchard
	September 4	No lecture – Labor Day
3	September 6	Ohm’s law, resistors, series and parallel circuits	Blanchard
4	September 8	Voltage dividers, Wheatstone bridge, current balancing	Blanchard
5	September 11	Capacitors and Inductors – reactive impedance	Blanchard
6	September 13	RC filters: high pass, low pass	Blanchard
7	September 15	Semiconductors I: Diodes	Blanchard
8	September 18	Semiconductors II: Transistors	Blanchard
9	September 20	Operational amplifiers – basic rules	Blanchard
10	September 22	Operational amplifiers – examples and uses	Blanchard
11	September 25	Noise and filters	Blanchard
12	September 27	A/D and D/A conversion	Blanchard
13	September 29	Digital electronics – intro and functions	Blanchard
14	October 2	Digital electronics and review	Blanchard
	October 4	Hour Exam I
Part 1 - Electrochemistry
1	October 6	Overview of electrode processes I	Swain
2	October 9	Overview of electrode processes II	Swain
3	October 11	Electrode potentials	Swain
4	October 13	Thermodynamics of electrochemical reactions	Swain
5	October 16	Electrochemical potentials	Swain
6	October 18	Kinetics of electrochemical reactions	Swain
7	October 20	Mass transport I	Swain
8	October 23	Mass transport II	Swain
9	October 25	Diffusion-controlled reactions	Swain
10	October 27	Chronoamperometry	Swain
11	October 30	Cyclic voltammetry	Swain
12	November 1	Cyclic voltammetry	Swain
13	November 3	Double-layer structure	Swain
14	November 6	Review	Swain
	November 8	Hour Exam II
Part 3 - Statistics
1	November 10	Basic estimators	Spence
2	November 13	Errors and propagation of error I	Spence
3	November 15	Errors and propagation of error II	Spence
4	November 17	Probability and probability distributions	Spence
5	November 20	Probability and probability distributions	Spence
6	November 22	Confidence intervals and statistical tests	Spence
	November 24	No lecture - Thanksgiving	Spence
7	November 27	Hypothesis testing I	Spence
8	November 29	Hypothesis testing II	Spence
9	December 1	Regression	Spence
10	December 4	p values	Spence
11	December 6	Applications I: Signal averaging	Spence
12	December 8	Applications II: TBA	Spence

Exam III… tentatively Monday, December 12^th