Texts: Harris: "Quantitative Chemical Analysis," last ed.
Bower and Drossman, "CH 241 Laboratory Manual." last ed.
(Example syllabus from ~2000)
Day Topic Reading/Homework
Grade Breakdown and Honor Code
1 AM Intro. to the Anal. Process (B) Ch 0, 1 - 0:5, 1:31 PM Lab 1: The Case of the Un-Natural Gas (B) Ch 2,3- 2:24, 3:4
2 AM Lab 2: The Case of the Polluting Penny (B) Ch 28 - 7,15
3 AM Statistical Analysis and Calibration (B) Ch 4, 5 - 4:14, 5:18 PM Lab 3: The Search for the Errant Datum (B) Quiz 1 (B)
4
AM Chemical
Equilibrium and Activity (D) Ch
6,7
PM
Lab 4: Catamount Water Sampling trip
5
AM Mass
Balance Equilibrium (D)
Ch 8, 9
PM
Lab 5: Alkalinity
Determination (D) Handout
Quiz 2 (D)
Week 2: (Lab Books Due Sat by 5 PM)
1
AM Acids
and Bases (D)
Ch 10, 11
PM
Lab 6: Spreadsheet Analyses
Handout
2
AM Advanced
Acid/Base & Titrations (D)
Ch 12, 13
PM
Lab 7: Ion Chromatographic
Analysis (D) Handout
3 AM Complexation Quiz 3 (D)
4
AM Fundamentals
of Electrochem. (B) Ch
14, 15 14:3, 40
PM
Lab 8: Electrode Construct.
& Use (B) Handout
15:E, 28
5 AM Redox & Voltammetry (B) Ch 16, 17 16:4, 17:G, 13 Quiz 4 (B)
Week 3: (Lab Books Due Sat by 5 PM)
1
AM Fundamentals
of Spectroscopy (B) Ch
18, 19 18:19, 22
PM
Group Projects (I): Intro. to Lit.
(B & D) 19:5
2
AM Spectrometric
& Atomic Methods (B) Ch
(20), 21 21:C, 17
Quiz 5 (B)
3
AM Chromatography
Basics (D) Ch 23, 24
PM
Group Projects (II): Demonstration on Use of UV-VIS, AA,
HPLC, CE, and GC (B & D)
4 AM HPLC and CE (D) Ch 25, 26 Quiz 6 (D)
5 AM/PM Group Projects (III): Standardization Literature
Week 4: (Lab Books Due Sat by 5 PM)
1 AM/PM Group Projects (IV): Analysis of Sample
2 AM
Poster Presentation of Group Projects (Class Lunch)
(Check out and clean Lab)
3 AM ACS Standardized Exam & closed book Final (B & D)