CHEM 114
Physical Chemistry Laboratory
Description: Lecture, two hours; laboratory, eight hours. Enforced requisites: courses 30AL, 110A, and 113A, with grades of C- or better. Enforced corequisite: course 110B or C113B. Lectures include techniques of physical measurement, error analysis and statistics, special topics. Laboratory includes spectroscopy, thermodynamic measurements, and chemical dynamics. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Winter 2020 - This class serves to remind you and everyone else how subpar our PChem education is coming up to taking this lab. When did we learn anything proper about kinetics? How deep did our spectroscopy education go? Definitely not time-dependent spectroscopy but there's an experiment on that so have fun. Electrochemistry? Good luck. To survive this class, be proactive and learn as much as you can before you enroll. That way you won't have to spend hours teaching yourself how to code, hours teaching yourself the basic theory behind your experiment, and hours learning error analysis. That way, it will save you time so that you can use 10-20 hours to write your fucking lab reports that come for your throat every 2 weeks. Baugh is literally useless which makes him one of the best professors to take this class with because he doesn't give a fuck. He doesn't talk to the TA's at all so there is constant miscommunication. His lectures are hallucinations. If you've ever taken a class with him before you'll know what I am talking about. How he has managed to stay in this department after all this time is beyond me. Possibly because there is a dramatic lack of pchem faculty that step up to take part in our upper division education other than the same few people like Baugh.
Winter 2020 - This class serves to remind you and everyone else how subpar our PChem education is coming up to taking this lab. When did we learn anything proper about kinetics? How deep did our spectroscopy education go? Definitely not time-dependent spectroscopy but there's an experiment on that so have fun. Electrochemistry? Good luck. To survive this class, be proactive and learn as much as you can before you enroll. That way you won't have to spend hours teaching yourself how to code, hours teaching yourself the basic theory behind your experiment, and hours learning error analysis. That way, it will save you time so that you can use 10-20 hours to write your fucking lab reports that come for your throat every 2 weeks. Baugh is literally useless which makes him one of the best professors to take this class with because he doesn't give a fuck. He doesn't talk to the TA's at all so there is constant miscommunication. His lectures are hallucinations. If you've ever taken a class with him before you'll know what I am talking about. How he has managed to stay in this department after all this time is beyond me. Possibly because there is a dramatic lack of pchem faculty that step up to take part in our upper division education other than the same few people like Baugh.
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Winter 2017 - If you are reading this, then more than likely you have heard horror stories about Bouchard and 114. And, you also probably don't have much of a choice about taking this class. But, let me address a few things. The class is very difficult, no lies here. On top of the lab reports, Louie gives the hardest homework assignments I ever had at UCLA, and exams aren't a walk in the park (although if you study and do the hw they actually aren't all that bad). Ultimately, however, I ended up appreciating the class. Louie is very rigorous, derived, and straight forward in his lectures, and ultimately the lectures are clear. He also provides incredibly detailed notes, which are long but you MUST study them to do well. Be sure to go to the TA's to make sure your lab reports are well written, as you shouldn't lose sight of the fact that they are the biggest portion of your grade. The class is hard, and you will have to work your tail off, but Bouchard is actually a cool guy, he just enjoys challenging people.
Winter 2017 - If you are reading this, then more than likely you have heard horror stories about Bouchard and 114. And, you also probably don't have much of a choice about taking this class. But, let me address a few things. The class is very difficult, no lies here. On top of the lab reports, Louie gives the hardest homework assignments I ever had at UCLA, and exams aren't a walk in the park (although if you study and do the hw they actually aren't all that bad). Ultimately, however, I ended up appreciating the class. Louie is very rigorous, derived, and straight forward in his lectures, and ultimately the lectures are clear. He also provides incredibly detailed notes, which are long but you MUST study them to do well. Be sure to go to the TA's to make sure your lab reports are well written, as you shouldn't lose sight of the fact that they are the biggest portion of your grade. The class is hard, and you will have to work your tail off, but Bouchard is actually a cool guy, he just enjoys challenging people.
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This was his first time teaching Chem 114. I loved this class, apparently this class is hated by many students but Weiss really set up the class extremely well. He assigns you 4 labs and you get 2 weeks to do each lab report! And you get to present on one of your lab reports as if you're doing a talk at a conference. Superb teacher; highly recommend.
This was his first time teaching Chem 114. I loved this class, apparently this class is hated by many students but Weiss really set up the class extremely well. He assigns you 4 labs and you get 2 weeks to do each lab report! And you get to present on one of your lab reports as if you're doing a talk at a conference. Superb teacher; highly recommend.
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