Data and Statistics

9/5 Class 1:  Introduction to role-playing laboratories and classes.
Workshop:  Preparing a Professional Quality Graph

• Harris Ch 3
• ProbSet 1 assigned
• DAIT 1 assigned 6

9/10 Class 2:  Standard deviations, confidence intervals, and Statistical Tests.

• Harris Ch 4
• ProbSet 1 DUE
• ProbSet 2 assigned

9/12 Class 3:  Statistical and round robin testing of laboratory data using the Q-test, t-test and F-test.
Workshop:  BP data

• Harris Ch 5, §28-1
• DAIT 1 DUE
• DAIT 2 assigned

9/17 Class 4:  Literature Searching using SciFinder Scholar, Web of Science and Other Tools.  Reference Management with End Note.  Solubility 1-control of solution species and composition with common ions

• Harris §9-1 thru 9-3, 6-1 thru 6-6
• ProbSet 2 DUE
• ProbSet 3 assigned

9/19 Class 5 Quiz 1 (20 min.)
Alpha fractions as computational tools in equilibria problems.
Workshop:  Alpha Fractions

• Harris §11-5
• DAIT 2 DUE
• DAIT 3 assigned

9/24 Class 6:  Solubility 2 - Computational tools and pH control of solution composition.

• Harris §9-4
• ProbSet 3 DUE
• ProbSet 4 assigned

9/26 Class 7:  Solubility 3 - Effect of ionic strength (activities) on solubility.
Workshop:  Ionic Strength effects
 

• Harris Ch 8

10/1 Class 8:  Examination 1
Covering Classes 1-7, Labs 1-3 , ProbSets 1-3, & DAIT 1-2

• ProbSet 4 DUE
• ProbSet 5 assigned

10/3 Class 9:  Acid/Base 1 - How to do monoprotic weak acids and buffer solutions.

• Harris §6-7 thru 6-9, Ch 10

10/8 Class 10
Acid/Base 2 - How to approach polyprotic buffer equilibria problems.
 

• Harris Ch 11
• ProbSet 5 DUE
• ProbSet 6 assigned

10/10 Class 11
Acid/Base 3 - Amphoteric buffer systems and pH problems.

• Harris §11-1
• DAIT 3 DUE
• DAIT 4 assigned

10/15 Class 12
Acid/Base 4 - Polyprotic titrations and stoichiometry.

• Harris §12-1 thru 12-4
• ProbSet 6 DUE
• ProbSet 7 assigned

• Harris §12-5 thru 12-9
• DAIT 4 DUE
• DAIT 5 assigned

10/24 Class 14:  Spectrophotometry 1 - Interaction of light with matter, in particular atomic spectroscopy.

• Harris Ch 18, Ch 21
• DAIT 5 DUE
• DAIT 6 assigned

10/29 Class 15:  Spectrophotometry 2 - Spectrophotometers and UV systems.

• Harris Ch 20
• ProbSet 7 DUE
• ProbSet 8 assigned

10/31 Class 16:  Spectrophotometry 3 - Applications of Spectroscopy
Workshop:  Spectroscopy of Mixtures

• Harris Ch 19

• ProbSet 8 DUE
• ProbSet 9 assigned

11/7 Class 18:  Redox 1- Equilibrium cell potentials via the IUPAC conventions & the Nernst equation

• Harris Ch 14
• DAIT 6 DUE
• DAIT 7 assigned

• Harris Ch 15
• ProbSet 9 DUE
• ProbSet 10 assigned

11/14 Class 20:  Redox 3 - Applying the Nernst equation to potentiometric titratioins.

• Harris Ch 16
• DAIT 7 DUE
• DAIT 8 assigned
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Chromatography and Separations

11/19 Class 21:  Quiz 3 (20 Min.)
Separations 1 - Solvent Extraction as a single stage chromatography experiment

• Harris Ch 23
• ProbSet 10 DUE
• ProbSet 11 assigned

11/21 Class 22:  Separations 2 - Theoretical plates, peak shape and gas chromatography.

• Harris Ch 24

11/26 Class 23:  Separations 3 - Pumps and columns in HPLC.

• Harris Ch 25

• Harris Ch 26
• ProbSet 11 DUE
• ProbSet 12 assigned

12/5 Class 25:  Separations 4 - Workshop: analysis of chromatogram and the quality of separation

• DAIT 8 DUE

• ProbSet 12 DUE