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Experimental Physical Chemistry: A Laboratory Textbook, 2nd Edition
Arthur M. Halpern. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997. xviii + 605 pp. ISBN 0 13 654203 4. $51.50.
This laboratory textbook presents 38 physical chemistry experiments that are designed to reinforce the material presented in lecture. It is a stand-alone book, containing a thorough theoretical treatment and a detailed and logical statement of procedures, safety precautions, and data analysis for each experiment. Preceding the experiments are sections on keeping a laboratory notebook, the treatment of experimental data, practical temperature, pressure, and voltage measurements, and the application of computers in the laboratory.
The experiments are logically organized by topic. First, the thermodynamics of gases is covered by four experiments. This is followed by two bomb calorimetry experiments exposing students to thermochemistry, and three experiments on the thermodynamics...