Dr. Samuel A. Abrash
Associate
ProfessorGottwald Science Center, C208
University of Richmond, VA 23173
office phone : (804) 289-8248
home phone : (804) 323-7363
E-mail: sabrash@richmond.edu
Courses
- Chem 110 - Pollutants in the Environment.
- Chem 110 Lab
- Lab
Schedule
- Policies,
Safety and Notebook Requirements
- Chemical
Bonds, Molecular Models, and Molecular Shapes - Lab Lecture
- Visibly
Delighted: How Do Colored Solutions Interact With Light? - Lab
Lecture
- Refrigerant
Gases and Pollutant Gases - Lab Lecture
- Solids
in Cigarette Smoke - Lab Lecture
- Chemical
Moles - Lab Lecture
- Hot
Stuff - Lab Lecture
- Energy
from Fuels - Lab Lecture
- Can
Waste Oil Be Turned Into A Fuel - Lab Lecture
- A
Conductivity Detector for Ions AND Can We Get Electricity from Chemical
Reactions? - Labs Lecture
- Which
Common Materials Are Acids or Bases AND Reactions of Acids With Common
Substances - Labs Lecture
- Analysis
of Westhampton Lake Water (Yuck!) - Lab Lecture
- Why
(Actually How) Do Plastics Get Sorted for Recycling? - Lab Lecture
- Solubilities
- An Investigation
- Chem 141
- Syllabus
- Lectures
One Through Four
- Lectures
Five Through Eight
- Lectures
Nine Through Twelve
- Lectures
Thirteen Through Sixteen
- Lectures
Seventeen Through Twenty
- Lectures
Twenty One Through Twenty Four
- Lectures
Twenty Five Through Twenty Eight
- Lectures
Twenty Nine Through Thirty Two
- Lectures
Thirty Three Through Thirty Five
- Chem 141 Laboratory
- FAQ
on Syllabus, Safety, Significant Figures, and Excel
- Lab
Lecture for Spectrometric Determination of Iron Concentration
- Lab
Lecture for Qualitative Analysis of Reactions
- Lab
Lecture for Message in a Bottle
- Lab
Lecture for Thermochemistry A: Heats of Chemical Processes
- Lab
Lecture for Thermochemistry B: Salts and Society
- Lab
Lecture for VSEPR/Spartan
- Lab
Lecture for Exploring Buffers
- Lab
Lecture for Reaction Kinetics
- Chem 309 - Physical Chemistry :
- syllabus
- Lecture Notes on State Functions, Equations of State, and Ideal and Real Gases
- Lecture Notes on Work, Heat, The First Law, State Functions, Heat Capacity, Adiabatic Processes and Thermochemistry
- Lecture Notes on Heat Engines, Entropy and the Second and Third Laws of Thermodynamics
- Lecture Notes on Thermodynamic Potentials, Maxwell Relations, The Thermodynamic Square, Thermodynamic Equations of State and Fugacity
- Lecture Notes on Phase Diagrams, The Clapeyron Equation, and First and Second Order Phase Transitions
- Lecture Notes on Mixtures, Activities, Colligative Properties and the Gibbs Phase Rule
- Lecture Notes on Chemical Equilibrium
- Lecture Notes on Electrochemical Cells, Ionic Activity and the Nernst Equation
- Lecture Notes on Chemical Kinetics
- Problem Set One (Due at the end of class, Wednesday, September 1st)
- Problem Set Two (Due at the end of class, Friday, September 10th)
- Problem Set Three (Due at the end of class, Wednesday, September 15th)
- Problem Set Four (Due at the end of class, Wednesday, September 22nd)
- Optional Problem Set for Test One (Not to be turned in, ever, ever, ever)
- Problem Set Five (Due at the end of class, Wednesday, October 6th
- Problem Set Six (Due at the end of class, Friday, October 15th)
- Problem Set Seven (Due at the end of class, Wednesday, October 20th)
- Problem Set Eight (Due at the end of class, Wednesday, October 27th)
- Optional Problem Set for Test Two (Not to be turned in, ever, ever, ever)
- Problem Set Nine (Due at the end of class, Wednesday, November 17th)
- Optional Problem Set for Test Three (Not to be turned in, ever, ever, ever)
- Optional Problem Set for Final Exam (Not to be turned in, ever, ever, ever)
- Chem 310
- Syllabus
- Lecture
notes on Experiments Leading to Quantum Mechanics and Introduction to the
Schrodinger Eqn
- Lecture
notes on Operators, Particle in a Box, Quantum Mechanical Averages and
Multidimensional Problems
- Lecture
notes on Harmonic Oscillator, Rigid Rotator, Angular Momentum and the
Time Dependent Schrodinger Eqn
- Lecture
notes on the Hydrogen Atom, Perturbation Theory, Introduction to the
Helium Atom, and the Variational Method
- Lecture
notes on The Rest of the Helium Atom, Electron Spin and the Pauli Exclusion
Principle
- Lecture
notes on Slater Determinants, the Hartree-Fock Approximation, Term
Symbols, and Periodic Properties
- Lecture
notes on the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation, the Hydrogen Molecule Ion,
the Hydrogen Molecule, and the LCAO Approach to Molecular Orbitals
- Lecture
notes on Molecular Electronic Configurations, Valence Bond Theory, Huckel MO Theory, Electronegativity, Ionic Bonding
and Intermolecular Forces
- Lecture
notes on Molecular Spectroscopy
- Problem Set One (due at the end of class, Wednesday, January 19th)
- Problem Set Two (due at the end of class, Wednesday, January 26th)
- Problem Set Three (due at the end of class, Wednesday, February 2nd)
- Problem Set Four (due at the end of class, Wednesday, February 9th)
- Optional Problem Set for Test One (not to be turned in, ever, ever, ever)
- Problem Set Five (due at the end of class, Wednesday, March 2)
- Problem Set Six (due at the end of class, Wednesday, March 23rd)
- Optional Problem Set for Test Two (not to be turned in, ever, ever, ever)
- Problem Set Seven (due at the end of class, Wednesday, April 13th)
- Environmental Studies 201: Introduction to Environmental Studies
Resources for
Courses
Chem 309-310 Physical Chemistry
This page has in a very convenient form thermochemical data, mass spectroscopic data and infrared spectra for a large number of molecules.
Useful
and Interesting Chemistry Links.
This site is a tool for learning how to interpret NMR and IR spectra. It consists of a library of problems in NMR and IR spectroscopy ranging in difficulty from introductory to advanced. The site also includes instructional materials and tools to assist students in learning about NMR and IR spectroscopy.
This is an amazing chemistry site. Although it puts advertisements and items for sale first, it provides access to a large number of useful sites and programs. It includes links to 100 free chemistry databases, chemical industry www yellow pages, chemistry software, including freeware and shareware, Online Journals, Patents, Jobs, Reaction Mechanisms, Sites and Tools for Spectroscopy, Information on Chemistry Societies Worldwide, and a large index of other chemistry related websites.
This site allows you to search for a number of molecules by name, formula or CAS number. It allows searches by structure if you have ChemDraw with the appropriate plug-in. For the molecules in its data base it provides a variety of useful physical properties. (Thanks to Suzanne Vogel for bringing this to my attention.)
A very good source on undergraduate level physical and general chemistry (lots of images, videos etc.)
A good source on graduate level quantum chemistry (it's a whole book, with diagrams, images, refs etc.)
A lot of good information, and lots of links.
Quantum Chemistry tutorials, images, very good protein-oriented site.
An excellent site for information about transition states, with images.
- Molecular Simulations
Inc. (Commercial Site)
The site contains some high-quality images (available in their gallery). It
is especially
good for proteins and solid state materials.
This site has lots and lots of links, but more computational rather than
quantum
chemical resources.
Few but good quality images of molecules etc, and a video of an MD simulation.
This site has lots of links to computational chemistry resources.
Research Projects
- Photochemistry and dynamics of weakly bound complexes
in rare gas matrices; ab initio calculations of the gas phase ion-molecule
reaction; photochemistry of silicon containing compounds on triplet
surfaces.
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