General Information
- Safety Rules (read first) (PDF)
- Keeping a Laboratory Notebook (PDF)
- Glossary of Terms and Definitions (PDF)
- Molarities of Concentrated Acids and Bases (PDF)
Experimental Procedures
- IInvestigation 1: Calorimetry
- Investigation 2: Designing a Heat Pack
- Investigation 3: Using Hess’s Law
- Investigation 4: Thermodynamics of Solution Reactions
- Investigation 5: Electrochemistry: Spontaneous Reactions and Equilibrium Constants
- Investigation 6: Solubility and Thermodynamics
- Investigation 7: Spectrophotometric Measurement of an Equilibrium Constant
- Investigation 8: Titration of a Weak Acid
- Investigation 9: Titration of a Diprotic Weak Acid
Guidelines for reports and summaries
- Presentation of Data (PDF)
- Treatment of Experimental Error (PDF)
- Writing a Discussion (PDF)
- Writing an Abstract (PDF)
Lab techniques and operating procedures
- The Balance – making mass measurements (PDF)
- Coordination Chemistry (PDF)
- Decanting liquids (PDF)
- Electrochemistry (PDF)
- Gas Chromatography (PDF)
- Infrared Spectroscopy (PDF)
- Pseudo-first Order Kinetics – Determination of a Rate Law (PDF)
- Spectrophotometry (PDF)
- SpectroVis Plus Spectrophotometer (PDF)
- Thin-layer Chromatography (PDF)
- Vacuum Filtration (PDF)
- Volumetric glassware use – Buret (PDF)
- Volumetric glassware use – General (PDF)
- Volumetric glassware use – Micropipette (PDF)
- Volumetric glassware use – Volumetric Flask (PDF)
- Volumetric glassware use – Volumetric Pipet (PDF)