GENERAL LAB INFORMATION
CHEM 361
1.- You must wear goggles (protecting your eyes) at all times in Room MSL 253.
i) If you do not follow this procedure, the instructor will issue a warning.
ii) You will be warned only two times.
iii) The third time, the instructor will ask you to leave the room, and you will get an F for
the corresponding lab report.
2.- Prelab protocol is required.
i) You have to prepare a prelab protocol before coming to the laboratory in your lab notebook .
ii) Before starting the corresponding experiment, the instructor will check and initial your
protocol.
iii) During the entire experiment, you will be required to follow you own protocol not
the Laboratory Manual.
iv) Two copies of the Laboratory Manual will be available for consultation only.
v) Photocopy of the original prelab protocol has to be attached to your final
laboratory report.
3.- The reports are due two weeks after the day on which the experiment was performed.
i) The reports are to be written in a good literary style and should follow the Journal of Chemical Education format.
ii) Typing is preferred but not required.iii) You will be allow 14 days of late reports without penalty:
Use this privilege wisely.
iv) Additional late reports will result in a loss of two full grade (A --> C).
v) Reports more than one week late will not be graded (F), but you are required to turn in all four full lab reports.
Lab Reports
4 Experiments
10 pages max
1 - Introduction
2 - Theoretical Background: short but meaningful.
3 - Experimental Method
4 - Error Analysis
5 - Results: Tabular form.
6 - Questions
7 - Discussion
8 - Conclusions
9 - References
Data (Tables) & Figures