Chem 101 Laboratories Fall 2026
What you need to know before attending your first lab....
Lab Sessions start the week beginning September 14 in room FR306.
The following clickable icon appears at various places in the lab schedule:
Instructional Videos - specific to
laboratory techniques and equipment for selected experiments,
showing the methods that students will use when in the
laboratory. Recommended viewing.
Note that the public holidays on Sept 30 (Wed) for Reconcilliation Day and Oct 12 (Mon) for Thanksgiving force the schedules for L1/L2 to be different from L3-L6 for the three weeks of Sept 28 - Oct 14.
Chem 101 Lab Schedule ICONS BELOW ARE LINKS
| DATES (Mon - Wednesday) |
EXPERIMENT | LINKS |
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| Sept 14 - 16 | Exp 1 Lab Orientation |
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| Sept 21 - 23 | Exp 2 Lab Measurement |
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| Sept 28
Monday group Sept 29 - 30 (Tue-Wed) |
Exp 3
Physical Properties Parts A & B
for L1 & L2 Reconcilliation Day: no lab for L3 - L6 |
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| Oct 05
Monday group Oct 06 - 07 (Tue-Wed) |
Exp 3
Physical Properties Part C for
L1 & L2 Exp 3 Physical Properties Parts A & B for L3 - L6 |
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Oct 12 Monday group Oct 13 - 14 (Tue-Wed) |
Thanksgiving Monday:
no lab for L1 & L2 Exp 3 Physical Properties Part C for L3 - L6 |
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| Oct 19 - 21 | Exp 4 Gravimetric Analysis |
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| Oct 26 - 28 | Exp 5 Acid Base Titrations (first session) - Titration of NaOH Using Acetic Acid |
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| Nov 02 - 04 |
Exp 5
Acid Base Titrations (second session) - Standardisation of NaOH Using KHP |
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| Nov 09 - 11 | no labs this week - Remembrance Day (Wed) | |
| Nov 16 - 18 | Exp 6 Ideal Gas Law |
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| Nov 23 - 25 | Exp 7 Thermochemistry Parts 1 & 2 | |
| Nov 30 - Dec 02 | Exp 7 Thermochemistry Graphing & Calcs | |
| Dec 07 - 09 | lab course finished | |
| Dec 14 - 16 | lab course finished |
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, automatically fails the lab course and hence the entire chemistry course.
If you are feeling sick, please stay at home and
do not attend the lab session.
If absence from an in-person in-lab session 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.
Laboratory Report Deadlines
Most reports will be due at the end of the laboratory session. Information about due times is found in the "Prelab Preparation" section of each experiment in the lab manual. Always submit your report exactly as your instructor directs. Those reports due at the end of a session should be submitted before you leave the lab. Those reports with extended deadlines should be submitted in the correct drop box in the hallway outside FR308.
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 up to 24 hours after the deadline will be assessed a penalty of 50% of the total possible marks. Late reports must be submitted to one of the chemistry laboratory personnel to be signed and dated. Late reports left in the hallway drop box after the deadline, or left in the wrong drop box, will not be marked.
Reports received more than 24 h after the deadline will not be marked, resulting in 100% loss of total possible marks.
For more complete details on the late report policies, consult your laboratory guide.
