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 – Investigations
- Investigation 1- Calorimetry and Designing a Heat Pack
- Investigation 2- Calorimetry of Neutralization Reactions
- Investigation 3- Electrochemistry; Spontaneous Reactions and Equilibrium Constants
- Investigation 4- Solubility and Thermodynamics
- Investigation 5- Titration of a Weak Acid
- Investigation 6- Investigating Baby Wipes as a Buffer System
- Investigation 7- Reaction Kinetics
Guidelines for reports and summaries
- Presentation of Data Primer (PDF)
- Treatment of Experimental Error (PDF)
- Writing a Discussion (PDF)
- Writing an Abstract (PDF)
Technical Primers
- The balance – making mass measurements (PDF)
- Coordination Chemistry (PDF)
- Decanting Liquids (PDF)
- Electrochemistry (PDF)
- Gas Chromatography (PDF)
- infrared Spectroscopy (PDF)
- Psuedo-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)