CHM 1030
General Chemistry II Laboratory
Professor Sinex

Course syllabus in pdf                             Culminating Chemical Analysis Task

Tips for improving your grade - click here

Computer resources such as ISEE Player for STELLA, a PointPoint Viewer, and downloadable instructions for the graphing calculator and Excel are on the Physical Sciences Department Webpage.

Further Explorations the Chemical World:  CHM 103 Laboratory Manual (free download as pdf files).

PowerPoint (2002/XP) Slides for Topics covered in class- animations may degrade in other versions:

• Introduction to course 
• Measurement and Error      (pdf handout)
• The Best-Fit Line       (pdf handout)
• Volumetric Calculations        (pdf handout)
• Spectrophotometry:  An Analytical Tool      (pdf handout)
• Tracking Reaction Progress with Electrochemical Methods   (pdf handout)
• EDTA - An Introduction
• Molecular Vibrations and IR Spectroscopy    (pdf handout)

Interactive scatter plot for measurement variation comparison in Excel- just add data!

Discovering Intramolecular Interactions - an activity requiring Chime and Excel with animations done in Spartan '02 - So you think you know about intramolecular interactions, then try an assessment activity - Helical Structures (html file) or Energy Profiles for Internal Rotation (Excel file)

Studying Vibrations in Molecules - an activity requiring Chime and Excel with animations done in Spartan '02 and determining the IR spectra of four compounds

The Beer's Law Simulator-  an interactive Excel spreadsheet with an activity  (pdf handout)

Spectrophotometer simulation as a Java applet -  http://www.chm.davidson.edu/java/spec/spec.html

Single-point Calibration and Its Error

Beer's Law Simulator II:  Exploring Errors (pdf handout)

Chime Structures for Crystal Violet Kinetics Reaction - click here

Stella model for crystal violet kinetics simulation - Absorbance vs. Time (download in Internet Explorer)

The Kinetics of Enzyme Reactions:            Java Applet                Excelet                    Activity (pdf)               Survey (Word)

Fe(SCN)⁺⁺ Excel interactive spreadsheet for calculation of equilibrium constant                Data submission form - click here

Good source of information on acid-base indicators - click here

The pH Electrode:  A Neutralization Reaction Tracking Device - pdf activity      pdf key

Problem Set on Tracking Reaction Progress (pdf) - good review of electrochemical and spectrophotometric techniques studied 

Practice Exam Files (pdf) Folder( click on it)- These will give you an idea of the type of exams you will get.

Class Data Files in Excel:

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