CHEM 235 LECTURES FOR SEMESTER 04-2008

 

Lectures 1 & 2 Tuesday 26th August 2008

Course outlines distributed.  Change of hours discussed. 

Handouts: Origin of chemical elements, discovery of chemical elements.

Homework: Essay: The History of the Periodic Table

Lecture: the origin of the chemical elements and their dates of discovery.

 

Lecture 3 Friday 29th August 2008-08-30

Sale of lab handbooks.

Chapter 6, Brown LeMay & Bursten 10th edition.  Electronic Structure of Atoms.  The wave nature of light, wavelength (λ), frequency (ν) and the velocity of light (c), period and wavenumber, interference fringes from parallel slits, the electromagnetic spectrum.  Blackbody radiation.