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Week beginning
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Experiment Title
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Jan 9-10
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Check-in
and Safety
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Jan 16-17
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What
does a molecule look like? (#6)
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Jan 23-24
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Visibly
Delighted: How do colored solutions interact with light? (#5)
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Jan 30-31
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Refrigerant
Gases (Supplemental Expt #1)
Preparation and properties of pollutant gases (Supplemental Expt #3)
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Feb 6-7
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Solids in Cigarette Smoke
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Feb 13-14
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Chemical
Moles (#8)
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Feb 20-21
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Hot
Stuff: An energy conservation problem (#9)
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Feb 27-28
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Which
fuels provide the most heat? (#10)
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Mar 5-6
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Spring
Break
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Mar 12-13
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Biodiesel:
Preparation and Properties (#11)
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Mar 19-20
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Chemical
reactions and electricity (#22)
Building a conductivity detector and testing for ions (#12)
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Mar 26-27
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pH
measurements of common substances (#18)
Reactions of acids with common substances (#17)
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Apr 2-3
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Analysis
of Westhampton Lake water (#16)
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Apr 9-10
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Why
Do Plastics Get Sorted for Recycling?
Properties of Common Plastics (#24)
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Apr 16-17
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Solubilities:
an investigation (#20)
Check out
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Laboratory
Policies
- Laboratory safety rules
will be rigorously enforced. You are responsible for knowing,
understanding, and adhering to the safety rules on page vi of the lab manual. NOTE: Sandals or other
open-toed shoes are not permitted in the lab.
- Laboratory attendance
is MANDATORY EACH WEEK. This includes both the pre-lab
lecture portion and the laboratory portion of the laboratory period. If
you miss the pre-lab lecture, you constitute a hazard to yourself and
the students around you, and you will therefore
NOT be permitted to do the laboratory procedure. Your grade for that
week will be zero. If you are seriously ill, if there is a death in the
family, or if there is some other emergency, your instructor may choose
to excuse you from a week's lab, but you must inform your instructor before
the lab is missed (if possible) or immediately upon your return to
campus. THERE ARE NO MAKE-UP LABS. If you are
excused from a particular week's laboratory, that grade will be dropped
or a substitute assignment may be given. If you are unexcused, that grade
will be recorded as a zero. Lab reports are always due one week after
completion of the experiment. Late lab reports are not accepted.
- You are expected to
read the laboratory text material for each week's experiment before
the lab. This will give you an excellent overview of the
objective of the experiment and will help you to focus on the critical
points in the pre-lab lecture.
- Much of your work this
semester will be done in teams or pairs. All work for the lab, including
collection of data, experimental work, interpretation of data and
answering questions in your laboratory report can be done in this
manner. However, no one who wishes to work individually will be required
to do data interpretation and answering questions with their partner.
- You are required to
keep a bound laboratory journal of all experimental work. This is
considered a permanent record of your work so all entries must be made
in ink. Any references you consult in the completion of an experiment
are to be cited. Entries are recorded into your notebook as you perform
the experiment. After you
and your partner have each earned three check plusses on your notebook
records, you may alternate keeping the notebook records.
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