Quantitative Foundations of General Chemistry Lab

Undergraduate

This laboratory affords students at the beginning of their science studies to have meaningful and foundational engagement with experimental chemistry. The lab equips students for further science laboratory classes and laboratory research in the sciences. The course is structured to take students with little or no prior exposure to practical work in the sciences through a series of experiments in which they use scientific apparatus and practice techniques that are core to experimental work in chemistry and other physical sciences. This includes experiments involving calorimetry, electrochemistry, volumetric analysis, computational chemistry, spectroscopy, and synthesis. Students finish with a strong grounding in laboratory safety and experimental design, as well as in the collection and recording of measured and observational data, in addition to exposure to the apparatus and software platforms common to many physical science laboratories. This lab qualifies students for the organic chemistry laboratory sequence (CHEM 222L/223L). Prerequisites: By course placement. This laboratory class is intended to accompany CHEM 1700 only and may not be taken by any student unless they are either enrolled in CHEM 1700 concurrently or have already completed CHEM 1700 and have not in either case completed a higher numbered Chemistry laboratory class, SC 0 Course cr HTBA