Chem 111 Laboratories Summer 2020
What you need to know before attending your first lab....
Lab sessions start the week beginning [date] in lab room [room].
Due to COVID-19 all summer Chem Labs will be remotely-delivered online. Your lab instructor (Matt Berry) will provide more information via email and eLearn. There is no lab manual to purchase.
A handout with more information will be provided at your first lecture session.
You can download a pdf copy of this handout by clicking the above pdf icon. It will open in a new tab or window.
Instructional
videos are available via our YouTube channel. Videos specific to
laboratory techniques and equipment in selected experiments can be
accessed by clicking on the icon in the laboratory schedule below.
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including iPad and iPhone. We have been unable to get the videos to
load using Firefox. If your browser is Firefox, please
view the videos using Internet Explorer from within a campus
computer lab or access them via our YouTube channel.
Chem 111 Laboratory Schedule from Spring 2020
| WEEK BEGINNING |
EXPERIMENT | REPORT TYPE |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13 | Exp 1 Synthesis of Aspirin |
|
Short | |
| Jan 20 | Exp 2.1 Kinetics: Method of Initial Rates |
|
Short | |
| Jan 27 | Exp 2.2 Kinetics: Integrated Rate Laws | Short | ||
| Feb 03 | Exp 3 Qualitative Analysis: Unknown 1 | Short | ||
| Feb 10 | Exp 3 Qualitative Analysis: Unknown 2 | Short | ||
| Feb 17 | no lab session this week | |||
| Feb 24 | Exp 4 Chemical Equilibrium | Short | ||
| Mar 02 | Exp 5.1 Acids and Bases: Buffers | Short | ||
| Mar 09 | Exp 5.2 Acids and Bases: Titration Curves | FULL | ||
| Mar 16 | no lab session but Full Report due. | |||
| Mar 23 | no lab session this week | |||
| Mar 30 | Exp 6 Thermochemistry | Short | ||
| Apr 06 | Exp 7 Electrochemistry | Short | ||
Laboratory Attendance
Attendance at laboratories is mandatory, and missed work will be assigned a zero grade. To pass the laboratory component of this course you must achieve a minimum mark of 50% overall, and you must have attended and completed a required minimum of laboratory work. A student missing more than 3 lab sessions, for any reason, cannot pass the lab course.
If absence from a laboratory period is unavoidable, contact your lab supervisor, preferably before the class, and certainly no more than one day after the missed experiment. Unavoidable absences from the lab (to which there is also a limit) are governed by the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences Policy Regarding Missed Examinations and Labs which can be found in your course outline. If a lab excuse is granted, you will likely be required to make up the lost work.
Laboratory Report Deadlines
Most reports will be due at the end of the laboratory session. A
few reports (for example, the full report and any requiring the use
of MS-Excel to create graphs) will require more time for completion.
Information about due times is found in the "Prelab Preparation"
section of each experiment in the lab manual. Deadlines for
submission of reports requiring extra time will be given by your
laboratory instructor.
The reports should be submitted in
the correct drop box in the hallway outside FR308, unless otherwise
specified by your instructor.
Note that there are boxes for
all chemistry lab courses and all lab sections within each course,
so be sure to use the correct box! Reports left in the wrong box
will not be marked!
Late Laboratory Reports
Penalties will be applied to reports received after the stated deadlines. Late report policies are set by the Department of Chemistry and applied to all laboratory components of chemistry courses at Capilano University. Since the late report policy is set by the Department of Chemistry, your instructor is obligated to apply the penalties as described below
A late report received within 24 hours of the deadline, and signed, will be assessed a penalty of 50% of the total possible marks. Late reports must be submitted in person to one of the chemistry laboratory personnel to be signed and dated.
If late reports are left in the hallway drop box after the deadline, they will not be marked. Reports received more than 24 hours after the deadline will not be marked, resulting in 100% loss of the total possible marks.
For more complete details on the late report policies, consult your laboratory guide.
