Chem 111 Laboratories                           Spring 2025

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What you need to know before attending your first lab....

Lab Sessions begin the week of January 13 in room FR308.

The following two clickable icons appear at various places in the lab schedule:

Instructional Video Link Instructional Videos -  specific to laboratory techniques and equipment for selected experiments, showing the methods that students will use when in the laboratory.  Recommended viewing.
   
Pre/Post-Lab Tutorial Link Online Tutorials - relating to selected study guide problems and treatment of results. Optional viewing. 

  

Chem 111 Laboratory Schedule    ICONS BELOW ARE LINKS

DATES
(Mon - Wednesday)
 EXPERIMENT  LINKS
Jan 13 - 15 Exp 1     Titrimetric Analysis Instructional Video Link
Jan 20 - 22 Exp 2.1  Kinetics: Method of Initial Rates  
Jan 27 - 29 Exp 2.2  Kinetics: Integrated Rate Laws Instructional Video Link
Feb 03 - 05 Exp 3    Qualitative Analysis: Unknown 1 Instructional Video Link
Feb 10 - 12 Exp 3    Qualitative Analysis: Unknown 2  
Feb 17 - 19 no chemistry lab - Reading Break  
Feb 24 - 26 Exp 4     Chemical Equilibrium  
Mar 03 - 05 no chemistry lab  
Mar 10 - 12 Exp 5.1  Acids and Bases: Buffers  
Mar 17 - 19 Exp 5.2  Acids and Bases: Titration Curves Instructional Video Link
Mar 24 - 26 no chemistry lab  
Mar 31 - Apr 02 Exp 6     Thermochemistry Instructional Video Link
Apr 07 - 09 Exp 7     Electrochemistry  
Apr 14 - 16
no chemistry lab  
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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 sudent missing more than 3 lab sessions, for any reason, automatically fails the lab course and hence the entire chemistry 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.

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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.