Syllabus - CHEM 1120 Laboratory
General Chemistry II
Spring Semester - 2010
Instructor:  Dr. James B. Condon
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COURSE TITLE:    General Chemistry II - Laboratory -  Click here to view relationship between laboratories and items.    Click here for the lab schedule  

TEXTS:   General Chemistry Laboratory Manual, 10th Edition, by J. B. Condon, Roane State Foundation

OTHER:   Texas Instruments TI-25 calculator, equivalent or better.

CREDIT:  0 semester hours

PREREQUISITE:  General Chemistry I (CHEM 1110 or equivalent)

EMPHASIS:

Fundamental concepts of solution chemistry, chemical reaction equilibria, solution equilibria,  chemical thermodynamics, electrochemistry and chemical kinetics

• To acquire a knowledge of the nature and behavior of electrolytes including concentration calculations and normality
• To be able to predict non-redox and some simple redox chemical reactions.
• To be able to balance Redox equations.
• To know the thermodynamic conventions and be able to do chemical thermodynamic calculations.
• To be able to do equilibria calculations.
• To understand and perform mathematical calculations of single and multiple ionic equilibria including pH, solubility, acid and bases, buffers and titration curves
• To understand and utilize elementary chemical kinetics.
• To understand the concepts of electrochemistry and be able to do electrochemical calculations.
• To know the fundamental functional group and be able to predict organic reactions based upon this knowledge.

To perform all assigned laboratory exercises and turn in completed laboratory reports and tests as assigned.  Laboratory reports and test must be handed in at the end of the assigned laboratory period except as instructed by the instructor.  No credit is given for late laboratories.

LABORATORY:

Each student is responsible for their own laboratory exercise.  There are two types of
laboratories.  This are referred to as "exercises" and "laboratories".  The description and rules
for each are as follows:

Exercises:  Exercises consist of performing some written exercises, typically calculations, in the laboratory manual.  After the student completes the exercises in the manual, a quiz is presented to the student for completion.  During the completion of the exercises in the manual, student may and are encouraged to collaborate.  For the quiz, however, the student must complete this alone with the aid of any written material deemed useful.

Laboratories:  Laboratories are hands-on experimentation in the laboratory.  Each student must perform the laboratory alone, except for those laboratories where equipment supply is restricted.  All reports, etc., must be individual work and no group effort or copying of any kind is allowed.  If an unknown is involved, each student will have a unique unknown with a unique unknown number.  All laboratory reports are individual efforts and duplicates or copies will not be given credit, nor may the student re-do a duplicate or copy.  Consultation between students during the laboratory is allowed and encouraged, so long as data is not exchanged or copied.