Course Outline:
 

Date	Experiment Title	Points
August 27	Download Laboratory Safety and Laboratory Notebook and Report
September 3	No Lab
September 10	Syllabus, Laboratory Safety and Early Explorations And Terminology
September 17	Early Explorations And Terminology (continued)	30
September 24	Hardness of Water	30
October 1	Separations:  Chromatography of M&M and Ink Dyes	30
October 8	Copper Cycle	30
October 15	Ionic Reactions	30
October 22	Potassium Chlorate Decomposition	30
October 29	Formula Weight from Gas Density	30
November 5	Thermochemistry and The Bomb Calorimeter	30
November 12	Synthesis and Analysis of a Coordination Compound
November 26	Synthesis and Analysis of a Coordination Compound (continued)
December 3	Synthesis and Analysis of a Coordination Compound (continued)	40
December 10	Check-out

Data for each laboratory experiment is recorded in special laboratory notebooks which automatically makes copies.  Data is collected in ink.  Do not erase any errors made in data collection.  Just line through once and rewrite.  Each page must include the following:

1.  Experiment number.
2.  Full title of experiment.
3.  Date on which page was written on.
4.  Student name.
 

Lab Courtesy:

Fifteen (15) points of your total grade is based on lab courtesy; considering such things as safety awareness, lab technique, behavior in the laboratory, showing up to lab on time and handing in labs on time.

Policies:

1.  Students must wear goggles in the laboratory at all times.  Each time the instructor must remind a student to keep his or her goggles on, 5 points will be deducted from the lab courtesy total.  If all courtesy points have been used up, 5 points will be deducted from the lab report grade.

2.  Be on time for lab.  Constant tardiness will not be tolerated and will result in points deducted from the lab courtesy grade.

3.  The orginial copy of the purpose, introduction and questions (see below) section of the notebook will be submitted at the beginning of each lab period and the original copy of any data pages will be turned in at the end of the lab period.

4.  The preparation for lab comprises approximately one-third of your laboratory report grade.  It is to be written legibly in your laboratory notebook before coming to lab.  Each page will be properly headed (see above).  The first section consists of the original copy of:  Purpose (clearly labeled with that heading), an Introduction, and complete answers to the Questions (found at the end of each experiment).  Use the "Laboratory Notebook and Report" handout as a guide to what to include in each section.

5.  During the lab, describe what you do (especially any deviations from the procedure in the handout), make observations and record data (well organized) in Data and Observations.  These pages will be initialed by the instructor and turned in before you leave.  Failure to have your bin inspected and your data pages initialed before leaving will result in a 5 point deduction from the laboratory report.

6.  The remainder of the lab report (original copy along with charts or graphs done in the process of data treatment) is to be turned in at the start of the next laboratory period.  This part of the report consists of Data Treatment and Discussion and Conclusion.  Also see the "Data Treatment" handout.

7.  The lab reports will be graded on neatness, organization of material, correct use of data, proper calculations including significant figures (include sample calculations), and quality of results.  Each day your lab report is late, 3 points will be deducted.

8.  If you miss a laboratory class, you must have a University approved excuse.  You are also required to show documentation to your instructor supporting your excuse.  Failure to do either one of these will result in your not being able to make up the missed laboratory experiment.
 

9.   Instructors are asked (Senate rule 49-20) to provide a statement at the beginning of a course to "clarify the application of academic integrity to that course."  The Senate Rule includes the following:

Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarizing, fabrication of information or citation, facilitating acts of academic dishonesty by others, having unauthorized possession of examinations, submitting work of another person or work previously used without informing the instructor, or tampering with the work of other students.

Read Senate rule 49-20.  (www.psu.edu/ufs/policies/47-00.html#49-20) and the Penn State Erie guidelines on academic integrity: www.pserie.psu.edu/faculty/academics/integrity.htm

Any violation of academic integrity will receive academic and possibly disciplinary sanctions, including the possible awarding of an XF grade which is recorded on the transcript and states that failure of the course was due to an act of academic dishonesty.  All acts of academic dishonesty are recorded so repeat offenders can be sanctioned according.

Grades:
 

Pre-Lab	95
Post-Lab	185
Lab Courtesy	20
Total	300

 

A	100 - 93%		C+	77 - 79%
A-	90 - 92%		C	70 - 76%
B+	87 - 89%		D	60 - 69%
B	83 - 86%		F	0 - 59%
B-	80 - 82%