Class schedule | HW assignments (Including preparation and review of the class.) | Amount of Time Required | |
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1. | Guidance and experimental safety and environmental considerations · A lecture is given on the basics of experiments, such as significance of experiments, notes, how to write reports. · A lecture is given also on the dangers involved in experiments and the environmental impacts. After that you will discuss in a small group on the code of conduct and considerations necessary to conduct experiments safely, decide groups' rules. |
Read the relevant chapters of textbook beforehand. | 100minutes |
2. | Qualitative analysis of cations 1 · Learn the principle of the generation and dissolution of precipitates by simple experiment. |
Read the relevant chapters of textbook beforehand and prepare a flow chart. | 200minutes |
3. | Qualitative analysis of cations 2 · Interview instruction about the report of the previous week and the week before last |
Create a report on last week's experiment. | 200minutes |
4. | Qualitative analysis of cations 3 · Separation and identification experiments using standard samples |
Read the relevant chapters of textbook beforehand and make an experiment plan. | 200minutes |
5. | Qualitative analysis of cations 4 · Analysis of an unknown sample (practical test) In the next (the 6th) and later experiments, you will be assigned to one of the 4 groups and carry out 8 themes in turn. Therefore, depending on the assigned group, the order of the theme is different. |
Revising the flow chart while reviewing the experiment procedure, prepare for practical examination. | 200minutes |
6. | Glass work · Using glass tubes, make simple laboratory instruments (capillaries and pipettes). |
Read the relevant chapters of textbook beforehand and make an experiment plan. | 200minutes |
7. | Measurement of avogadro constant · Make a monomolecular film of stearic acid and calculate Avogadro's number from the area. |
Read the relevant chapters of textbook beforehand and make an experiment plan. | 200minutes |
8. | Light absorption analysis · Measure the absorption curve of permanganate ion. · Using Lambert-Beer's law, determine the permanganate ion concentration in an unknown sample. |
Read the relevant chapters of textbook beforehand and make an experiment plan. | 200minutes |
9. | Determination of acid dissociation index · Perform neutralization titration while measuring pH, and determine acid dissociation index of a weak acid. |
Read the relevant chapters of textbook beforehand and make an experiment plan. | 200minutes |
10. | Measurement of molecular weight (freezing point descent method) · Calculate molecular weight and salt dissociation degree by freezing point descent method. |
Read the relevant chapters of textbook beforehand and make an experiment plan. | 200minutes |
11. | Reaction rate · By measuring the conductivity, follow the change over time in the hydrolysis reaction of ethyl acetate. · Analyze the measurement results, determine the reaction order, and determine the reaction mode. |
Read the relevant chapters of textbook beforehand and make an experiment plan. | 200minutes |
12. | Organic synthesis · Perform nitration reaction of phenol. · Analyze the product by TLC (Thin Layer Chromatography). · Extract each product isomer from the spot of TLC and measure the UV-visible absorption spectrum of each isomer. |
Read the relevant chapters of textbook beforehand and prepare a flow chart. | 200minutes |
13. | PC exercise (Excel and ChemDraw) · Learn methods of tabulating data and creating graphs using Excel. · Learn how to draw structural formulas using ChemDraw. |
Read the relevant chapters of textbook beforehand and make an experiment plan. | 200minutes |
14. | Final written exam and commentary | Review the previous experiments and summarize them in experimental notebook. | 200minutes |
Total. | - | - | 2700minutes |
Reports | Practical Exam | Exercises | Quizzes | Term-end Exam | Total. | |
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1. | 0% | 0% | 8% | 4% | 1% | 13% |
2. | 8% | 0% | 8% | 0% | 2% | 18% |
3. | 24% | 8% | 0% | 0% | 5% | 37% |
4. | 0% | 0% | 0% | 8% | 0% | 8% |
5. | 24% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 24% |
Total. | 56% | 8% | 16% | 12% | 8% | - |
ways of feedback | specific contents about "Other" |
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Feedback in the class |
Work experience | Work experience and relevance to the course content if applicable |
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N/A |