General Chemistry Laboratory CH 228 Winter Term 2008 Dr. Deborah Exton

Announcements

• Look ahead to spring term: CH229 lab schedule
• Final Exam scores are posted on the Blackboard web site. Course grades will be posted on DuckWeb.
• Final Exam answer key
• Help session for final exam:
  • Friday, March 14
  • 3:00 - 4:00 pm
  • Room 171 Onyx
• Mar 4 Final exam information...
• Mar 3 End of term announcements...
• Dec 14 CH 228 final exam...
• Dec 13 Winter term labs...

Lab Information On-line

• Lab #10 - Spectroscopy: Enter data, View Class Statistics
• Make-up Lab - Determination of Molar Mass via the Dumas Method

Resources

• Syllabus
• Laboratory Schedule
• Lecture Notes
  • Jan. 7
  • Jan. 14
  • Feb. 4
  • Feb. 11
  • Feb. 18
  • Feb. 25
  • Mar. 3
• TA Office Hours
• The Laboratory Notebook and Pre-lab Guidelines
• Guidelines for Writing the Post-laboratory Report
• Sample post-lab report
• Determinate Error Analysis
• Graphing
• Molecular Models
• Calculator Tutorials

Pre-lab Reading Questions

• Jan. 7 - No reading questions this week.
• Jan. 14
• Jan. 21 - No reading questions this week.
• Jan. 28 - No reading questions this week.
• Feb. 4
• Feb. 11
• Feb. 18
• Feb. 25
• Mar. 3

Grading Rubrics

• Graphing Workshop grading rubric
• Spectroscopy grading rubric
• Molecular Models grading rubric
• Spectrophotometric Determination of a Food Dye grading rubric
• The Ideal Gas Law grading rubric
• A Fatty Acid Monolayer grading rubric
• Forensic Analysis of Ink grading rubric
• Molar Mass Determination by FPD grading rubric

Computer Aided Instruction

• Skill Building - Try these skill building exercises for help with such topics as nomenclature and statistics.
• The Virtual TA - Visit the VTA for help with your calculations and frequently asked questions about the laboratory experiment that you are working on.