Quantitative Analysis

Quantitative Analysis (CHM2730) is taught in both the fall and spring semesters. The text for this course is entitled Quantitative Chemical Analysis, 7^th Edition, by Dan Harris (W.H. Freeman, NY). This course consists of two lectures per week, and one four-hour laboratory per week. It is a sophomore level class which is useful to anyone who will spend time in a laboratory generating quantitative results, or even someone who has to make sense of quantitative results generated by others. This course is also now a requirement for secondary science teachers; much of the lecture can be thought of as an advanced 2^nd semester general chemistry course. The laboratory is meant to teach proper technique for accurate and precise results in chemical measurements. The laboratory grade is determined largely on analytical results, so an understanding and use of proper technique and appropriate glassware is essential. The lecture describes the theoretical background required to understand the various types of laboratories undertaken. These include gravimetric, volumetric, and spectrophotometric analyses. The lecture spends time at the beginning discussing some basic statistical concepts for the interpretation of quantitative data. The basics of spectrophotometry is then presented. For the remaining 2/3 of the semester chemical equilibrium is discussed in detail, reviewing and extending what is learned in a typical 2^nd semester general chemistry course.

Syllabus Fall 2010

Laboratory

Lecture notes & Tests Fall 2010 – For Test 3 this semester there will be polyprotic test 2 material from last semester

Test 1 Spring 2010	Test 2 Spring 2010	Test 3 Spring 2010 Test 3 Key Spring 2010
Chapters 0, 1, 3	Chapter 6	Chapter 10 Chapter 11
Chapter 4	Chapter 9	Chapter 12
Chapter 18	Chapter 10	Chapter 14
		Chapter 15 (partial)