Wright State University
CHM 751 Chemical Kinetics
  Summer-C term 2011

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Homework Assignments:  problem sets (PS) and written assignments (WA)

                                       Homework Policy  |  HW #1   |   HW #2  and problem #6  Selke et al Fig. 1  |   HW #3   |   HW #4   |   HW #5   |  

                                  Homework solutions  |  HW #1   |   HW #2   |   HW #3   |   HW #4   |   HW #5   |   

Lecture notes and other handouts:     Lecture 1  |   Lecture 2  |   note on apparent reaction orders from limiting forms of a rate law  | 

Announcements:

• (posted 08/15/2011)  HW#4 solutions are posted today.
• (posted 07/21/2011)  HW#2 & HW#3 solutions are posted.
  
• (posted 06/30/2011)  HW#1 solutions are posted above.  Problem #6 has been added to HW#2 via link above.
  
• (posted 06/14/2011)  This particular offering of the CHM 751 Chemical Kinetics course benefits from last summer's independent study format to accommodate a student's difficult work schedule.  Resulting from that experinece, the syllabus contains additional detail regarding reading assignments.  I have posted what I expect to be all of the homework assignments for the course.  Please follow the stated homework policy for this course.  I would suggest trying to complete homework problems as you cover the foundation material that would allow consideration of each problem.  Hopefully you will have the first two problem sets completed sometime in the 3rd week.  You are not to use homework/exam solutions from previous years of this course or to ask for help from previous students.  Why?  Because if you're having trouble I want to know and to offer assistance.  *****  At some point we may meet in 072 BL for some hands-on instruction with the nonlinear solver in SigmaPlot.  Some data analysis will require this capability, while Excel or similar will suffice for a good deal of the work.  *****  For now, start or continue reading in Espenson's text.  Pilling's text is on reserve with a few others, and the loan period is supposed to have been extended from 2-hour in the library to 24-hour/overnight so that you can take the books away to a functioning copier/scanner if needed.  *****  I've written a short note in an attempt to explain how to consider limiting forms of rate laws as a reactant concentration changes and how to obtain apparent reaction orders from these limiting forms of the rate law.  This is particularly important when the rate law consists of more than one term and when concentrations appear in denominators of these terms or when the denominator consists of a sum of terms, some of which contain concentrations.  This note may be helpful in your consideration of problems 1 & 4 of HW#1.  This note is linked in the "Lecture notes and other handouts" section immediately above.

Kinetic studies often are published in the following journals. As a WSU student you may access many of these journals online via the "Electronic Journals" link on the   WSU library main page .