Chemistry 510
Advanced Physical Chemistry
last update for Spring 2008
instructor:
Andrew Cooksy, CSL-310, 594-5571
email: acooksy@sciences.sdsu.edu
CHEM 410A Course Syllabus
Additional CHEM 510 Syllabus Information
Announcements
Please also see the CHEM 410A announcements.
-
Scores for the final exam and final grades for the course
have been posted to Blackboard.
I'll hold onto the finals at least through next semester; just stop by my
office if you would like to take a look at your exam or see my solutions.
Thank you for your hard work and patience this semester.
Best wishes for a very happy summer,
Andrew Cooksy.
Additional CHEM 510 Syllabus Information
CHEM 510 is offered primarily for graduate students who need additional
preparation in physical chemistry before pursuing advanced graduate courses.
This course is not normally open to undergraduate
chemistry and biochemistry majors, because the CHEM 410A lab is
prerequisite to CHEM 457 and CHEM 417. CHEM 510 adheres to the
CHEM 410A course syllabus with these two exceptions:
- There is no lab component to CHEM 510, which is why 510 is a 3-unit course
and 410A is a 4-unit course.
- To make CHEM 510 a more advanced course than CHEM 410A, students in 510
are required to present an oral analysis of a current research paper
relevant both to the student's area of research interest and to the
410A course material (e.g., spectrosopy, fundamental quantum mechanics,
molecular symmetry, classical bond analysis, computational chemistry).
Paper presentation:
The paper must be approved in advance by the instructor;
the instructor will try to find suitable papers if requested.
Presentations will be given outside regular class time, at a
time and date agreed to by the 510 instructor and students,
no later than the week of final exams. Each presentation should
be 15 to 20 minutes long, with additional time for questions.
Presentations may use the board, overhead projector (anyone still using
those?) and/or PowerPoint. They will be graded based on the student's
knowledge of the work, critical assessment, and clarity of presentation.
These presentations may be added to the Department's Journal Club
seminar listing, when the Journal Club is active (so some of our
other graduate students may wish to attend).
Grading:
CHEM 410A lecture assignments (drills, quizzes, and exams) will be
graded on the same scale as given in the 410A syllabus. The total
410A score will then be scaled by 80%.
The paper presentation will then count for the remaining 20% of the
final grade in CHEM 510.
[ Chem & Biochem Home
| Undergraduate
| Graduate
| Research
]
SDSU Chemistry & Biochemistry Graduate Admissions
Web minion: A.L. Cooksy.
Last modified: May 19 2008 09:39:41.
