Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Sep 1

2

3

4 Class 1

Introduction to role-playing laboratories and classes. Workshop:  Preparing a Professional Quality Graph

Harris Ch 3

5

8

9 Class 2

Standard deviations, confidence intervals, and Statistical Tests.

Harris Ch 4

• ProbSet 1 DUE

10

Lab 2- Basic Skills

11 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

12

15

16 Class 4 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

17

Lab 3- Glassware

18 Class 5

Quiz 1 (20 min.)

Alpha fractions as computational tools in equilibria problems.

Workshop:  Alpha Fractions

Harris §11-5

• DAIT 2 DUE

19

22

23 Class 6

Solubility 2 - Computational tools and pH control of solution composition.

Harris §9-4

• ProbSet 3 DUE

24

Lab 4- Oxalate 1

25 Class 7

Solubility 3 - Effect of ionic strength (activities) on solubility.

Workshop:  Ionic Strength effects

Harris Ch 8

26

29

30 Class 8

Acid/Base 1 - How to do monoprotic weak acids and buffer solutions.

Harris §6-7 thru 6-9, Ch 10

• ProbSet 4 DUE

Oct 1

Lab 5- Oxalate 2

2 Class 9

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

Harris Ch 11

3

6

7 Class 10

Examination 1

Covering Classes 1-7, Labs 1-5, ProbSets 1-4, & DAIT 1-2

• ProbSet 5 DUE

8

Lab 6-Acid1

9 Class 11

Literature Searching and Reference Management.  Acid/Base 3 - Amphoteric buffer systems and pH problems.

Harris §11-1

• DAIT 3 DUE

10

13

14 Class 12

Acid/Base 4 - Polyprotic titrations and stoichiometry.

Harris §12-1 thru 12-4

• ProbSet 6 DUE

15

Lab 7-Acid2

16 Class 13

Acid Base 5 - Titrations as an analytical method.

Workshop:  Endpoint Determination

Harris §12-5 thru 12-9

• DAIT 4 DUE

17

20

Fall Break

21

Fall Break

22

No Lab This Week

23 Class 14

Spectrophotometry 1 - Interaction of light with matter

Workshop:  Spectroscopy in Nature

Harris Ch 18

• DAIT 5 DUE

24

27

28 Class 15

Quiz 2 (20 Min.)

Spectrophotometry 2 – Atomic Spectroscopy.

Video:  Robotics in the Analytical Laboratory

Harris Ch 21

• ProbSet 7 DUE

29

Lab 8-Mock Robot

30 Class 16

Spectrophotometry 3 – Spectrophotometers and UV/Vis systems.

Harris Ch 20

31

Nov 3

4 Class 17

Spectrophotometry 4 – Applications of Spectroscopy

Workshop:  Spectroscopy of Mixtures

Harris Ch 19

• ProbSet 8 DUE

5

Lab 9-Easter Egg

6 Class 18

Redox 1- Equilibrium cell potentials via the IUPAC conventions & the Nernst equation

Harris Ch 14

• DAIT 6 DUE

7

10

11 Class 19

Redox 2 – Electrodes and Appllications of electrodes.

Harris Ch 15

• ProbSet 9 DUE

12

Lab 10-Downsizing

13 Class 20

Examination 2

Covering Classes 11-19, Labs 6-9, ProbSets 5-9, & DAIT 3-6

14

17

18 Class 21

Redox 3 - Applying the Nernst equation to potentiometric titrations.

Harris Ch 16

19

Lab 11-Pill Machine

20 Class 22

Separations 1 – Solvent Extraction as a single stage chromatography experiment

Harris Ch 23

• DAIT 7 DUE

21

24

25 Class 23

Separations 2 - Theoretical plates, peak shape and gas chromatography.

Harris Ch 24

• ProbSet 10 DUE 6

26

Thanksgiving Break

27

Thanksgiving Break

28

Thanksgiving Break

Dec 2

3 Class 24

Separations 3 – Pumps, columns and detectors in HPLC.

Harris Ch 25

• ProbSet 11 DUE

4

Lab 12 - HPLC

5 Class 25

Quiz 3 (20 Min.)

Separations 4 – Capillary Electrophoresis and Chromatographic Applications.

Harris Ch 26

• DAIT 8 DUE

6

8

9 Class 26

LAST DAY OF CLASS

Separations 5 – Workshop: analysis of chromatogram and the quality of separation

• ProbSet 12 DUE

10

11 Reading Day

12

15

16

17

FINAL EXAM

2:30-4:30 p.m.

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