Daily ScheduleCHEMISTRY 305
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
SPRING 2001
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Instructor: |
Office: Sci 306 |
Phone: ext. 4451 |
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909-623-4683 |
Office Hours: 2:00-4:00 Tuesday and 3:30-5:00 Wednesday
Other times follow an open door policy or by appointment
Required Materials:
1. Contemporary Chemical Analysis by Rubinson and Rubinson
2. Laboratory Notebook
3. A Laboratory Manual (purchased from the Dr. Schrum)
4. A good scientific calculator which will do statistical analysis
Course Meetings:
Lecture: Sci 304 TR 11:00-12:20
Laboratory: Sci 314 R 1:30-6:30
Evaluation:
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Exams |
30 % |
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Labs |
40 % |
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Homework |
15 % |
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Cumulative Final |
15 % |
Course Objectives:
1. To develop an understanding of the statistical significance of data sets
2. To gain a working knowledge of spreadsheets and their advanced capabilities
3. To get a feeling for the limits of precision and accuracy for a variety of analytical methods
4. To achieve proficiency with laboratory techniques and practices which arecritical in the quantitative handling and analysis of samples
5. To become familiar with wet chemical, spectrophotometric, electrochemical and chromatographic methods of analysis and assess their appropriateness in a number of practical situations.
Lectures:
We will meet three times weekly. Because the class is small, you will be asked to participate a good deal. In addition, we will occasionally go to the computer room or the laboratory to discuss pertinent material. Attendance in the lectures will unavoidably correlate with your success in this course.
Laboratory Sessions:
In this course, almost more than in any other, the laboratory component is vitally important to your understanding and appreciation for our discussions in the classroom. The laboratory skills which you develop in this course will be somewhat painful to acquire but will benefit you in every bit of your lab work to follow. Whatever your career choice, you will use some of the skills and concepts learned in this lab. For this reason, it is important that you take your lab work seriously and work at it diligently. You will also need to enter the laboratory prepared to conduct the experiment. A few labs will begin with some initial demonstrations of lab technique but many will not. In order to complete the experiments successfully, it will be necessary for you to make careful, steady progress through the lab. Failing to prepare for the lab will lead to poor use of time and feeling hurried is certainly a good way to degrade the quality of your lab results. Lab reports will be written in your lab notebooks. Lab reports will be due the Tuesday after the experiment is completed.
Homework:
Homework assignments will generally be assigned for each chapter. Practice of important concepts has been shown time and again to correlate with comprehension of scientific material. Therefore, it is in your best interest to work the homework problems conscientiously. You should feel free to work cooperatively on the homework but each person should do their own work. You will gain nothing from copying someone else’s work and letting someone copy your work will not help the other person. Either case will be considered plagiarism and will follow the academic dishonesty policy below. We will make full use of the spreadsheet exercises in the book so it is important that you become comfortable using Microsoft Excel.
Exams:
Exams will be given as an opportunity for you to demonstrate both chemical and mathematical competance as well as physical understanding of the material. Exams will be given in the evening and will generally last 2-3 hours.
Policies Regarding Late Assignments and Academic Dishonesty:
In order for you to truly learn the material in this class, it is critical that you complete your own work in a timely fashion. Policies for late assignments and academic dishonesty are designed to help you and to be fair to the other individuals in the class. Assignments must be turned in before the deadline. A late policy of 10% per day (24 hour period) will be assessed for assignments turned in after the deadline. If the answer key has been posted or graded assignments returned, late assignments will not be accepted for any reason. Remember that assignments can always be turned in early.
Being honest about your academic work is the foundation of your education. For this reason, cases of academic dishonesty will be regarded with the utmost seriousness whether this means copying someone else's homework, doctoring lab results or cheating on an exam as examples. Sanctions will be treated on an individual basis but may range from receiving a zero on an assignment to receiving an F on the course.