Chemistry 162 Labs

Chemistry 162 Labs

Instructor: Ken Marr

Class Announcements

Lab Activities/Handouts

Lab Notebook Policy and Lab Report Format

Active Learning Exercises

Exam Study Guides

Chemistry Tutorials, Practice Problems, Animations, & other Resources

Chem 162 textbook website

GRCC Future Chemists Club

Ken Marr's Home Page

Tentatively Scheduled Lab Activities for Winter 2010

Link to the Lab Notebook Policy and Lab Report Format Guidelines for Chem 162

Link to Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS). Look here for hazards associated with specific chemicals. Also includes many physical constants (density, MW, etc.)

Lab Technique Videos

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Chem 162 Lab Handouts

Lab 1. Atomic Spectrum of Hydrogen

Lab Technique Instructional Video: How to Use a Bunsen Burner

Lab 2. Spectroscopic Determination of Allura Red: How Much Dye is in my Gatorade

Lab 2 Materials and Methods (print and cut and paste into the materials and method section of your report for lab 2)
How to Use a Volumetric Pipette: It is suggested that you read this thoroughly to help ensure that you use them properly!
- Lab Technique Instructional Video: How to Use a Volumetric Pipette
Ocean Optics USB-ISS-UV/VIS Spectrophotometer User's Guide

Lab 3. Activity Series

Activity Series Practice Problems and Demonstration
List of Periodic Table Elements Sorted by Ionization energy (very useful for analyzing the results of lab 3!)

Lab 4: Vitamin C Analysis: Introduction, Procedure & Prelab Questions Report Sheet

Class Data for the concentration of vitamin C in fruit juice.
How to Use a Burette and Volumetric Pipettes: It is suggested that you read this thoroughly to help ensure that you use them properly!
Lab Technique Instructional Videos:
Prelab Lecture Notes

Lab 5. Lewis Structures and Model Building

Lab 6. Use of VSEPR to Predict Molecular Structure and IR Spectroscopy to Identify an Unknown

How to Prepare Liquid Samples for FTIR Spectroscopy (html)
Interpretation of IR Spectra (html version) You may find this page useful in helping you interpret the IR spectrum of your unknown. If you want to print the document, print the Microsoft Word Version since part of the spectra gets cut off with the html version!
Table of IR Absorptions for Representative Functional Groups

Lab 7. Analytical Sleuths Will not do this quarter--we'll do the geometric isomers lab instead!

Lab 7. Geometric Isomers

Lab 8. Evaporation and Intermolecular Attractions

Lab 9. Molar Mass from Freezing Point Depression

(the last lab of the quarter )