Tentative course schedule - CH112 - Spring 2019

You will get the most of lectures if you have done the appropriate preparation beforehand. In this course, the preparation ahead of lecture will include:

  • Reading the lab that will be discussed;
  • Watching some short videos (links in the schedule below are to helpful review videos that you should watch before lecture); and
  • Reading additional parts of the lab manual (LM), or the writing guide (WC) at the end of the lab manual.

Also, make sure to prepare for upcoming technique workshops during the labs by working through the sections in the Appendix for each technique/skill before arriving at the lab.

Date Details
T 1/22 Classes begin on Tuesday
W 1/23 Meet in lab for check-in and orientation (move to TBA afterwards)

Capstone Project:
  • Project introduction
  • Groups form, project research in groups, and initial mentor consultations
  • Annotated bibliographies (one per student) are due next lab (read WC 6 ahead of lab)
M 1/28 Lecture on liquid chromatography and separations:
W 1/30 Lab #20: Separation and Quantification of food dyes (week 1)

Capstone: Meeting with TF to discuss progress, research, and direction
M 2/4 Lecture on curve integration and writing Introductions:
  • Curve integration: Reimann sums, trapezoidal rule, and Simpsons' rule
  • Introduction sections (WC 7)
W 2/6 Lab #20: Separation and Quantification of food dyes (week 2)

WR #5: adding motivation and background to scholarly papers in chemistry (paper due: 2/13)
M 2/11 Lecture on chemical equilibrium and Le Chatelier's principle:
W 2/13 Capstone: week #1
Capstone: mandatory consultations with course instructors next week
M 2/18
T 2/19		 No classes Monday -- Tuesday is Monday's schedule
Lecture on lab 12: effect of ionic strength on equilibrium
  • Heat and Le Chatelier's principle: video
  • Review: Beer's law
  • Review: Spectrophotometers, videos 4.1 and 4.2)
  • Experimental sections (WC 8)
W 2/20 Lab #12: Studying the effect of ionic strength on equilibrium
WR #6: detailing experimental design when publishing (paper due: 2/27)
  • Helpful video on Keq for post-lab: video
M 2/25 Review acid-base chemistry fundamentals before lecture: Lecture on lab 15: difference between endpoint and equivalence point
  • Acid-base indicators
  • Statistical significance with t-test and F-tests
W 2/27 Lab #15: Statistical survey of the use of indicators in acid-base titrations
M 3/4 Lecture on lab 16: titrations of polyprotic acids
  • Polyprotic acids and bases
  • Finding equivalence points with pH meters
Capstone: Reagents, materials, and equipment list due by email before today.
W 3/6 Lab #16: Potentiometric titrations of weak polyprotic acids
               (post-lab is due on 3/27)
M 3/11 to
F 3/15		 Spring Break - No classes this week
M 3/18 Lecture on lab 16: speciation of biomolecules
  • Percent protonation of acidic and basic sites
  • Why we only observe one inflection sometimes (video)
Lecture on Research Proposals (WC 9)
W 3/20 Capstone: week #2
Capstone: mandatory consultations with mentors and course instructors next week
Capstone: Research Proposal due before M 4/1
M 3/25 Lecture on lab 17: spectra of mixtures
  • UV/Vis of mixtures, isosbestic points
  • Buffers
W 3/27 Lab #17: Spectroscopic investigation of acid-base indicators
               (analysis and questions for thought are due on 4/3)
WR #7: final individual writing assignment of CH112 - a full scholarly paper on lab 17 (paper due: 4/10 at 12noon)
M 4/1 Lecture on lab 14: using kinetics to determine a mechanism
W 4/3 Lab #14: Kinetics of the decomposition of an indicator
               (analysis and questions for thought are due on 4/17)
M 4/8 More kinetics, Capstone Project
W 4/10 Capstone: week #3
M 4/15
W 4/17		 No classes on Monday - Wednesday is Monday's schedule
Lecture on making research presentations (WC 10)
Capstone: analysis is due by today -- meet with mentors
M 4/22 Lecture on capstone project
Capstone: paper due to TF and writing fellow by 7pm on Monday; PPT is due to writing fellow by 7pm on Tuesday
W 4/24 Capstone: conferences with TF mentors (L1/L2 meet in TBA and L3/L4 meet in PSY B33) and writing fellows (scheduled with WFs)
M 4/29 Capstone: final draft of paper due in pre-lab lecture (PDF by email, and hardcopy))
W 5/1 Capstone: presentations during lab times (L1/2 in COM 101, L3/4 in CAS 313)
R 5/2 Last day of classes (Thursday)

Updated Thursday, February 14, 2019 10:52 PM