Link to Suggested Problems from the Textbook

Week 1: Safety, Lab Techniques, Calibration and Statistics

• Logger Pro Download Site: Windows Mac (Password is climate)

 
• Logger Pro 3 Quick Reference Manual

 
• A Standard Deviation and Confidence Level Calculation Example:
  The Discovery of Argon by Lord Rayleigh | An Example of Confidence Intervals |

 
• Comparison of Two Experimental Means| Student Height Example |

 
• Propagation of Errors

 
• Guinness Brewer William Gosset (aka) Student

 
• Corning: Cleaning Pyrex Glassware

 
• Gaussian Distributions in Analytical Chemistry

Week 2: Quantitative Colorimetry

• Absorption, Emission and Fluorescence Spectroscopies

 
• The Kilogram

 
• The Fe(II)-Ferrozine complex and the original paper on Iron Colorimetry with Ferrozine

 
• Equations for a Linear Calibration Curve

 
• Example Spreadsheet for a Linear Calibration Curve Analysis

 
• The Amazing Sodium D-Lines

Week 3: Fluorescence Spectroscopy

• Equations for the Method of Standard Addition

 
• Standard Addition Excel Workbook

 
• Paper on Standard Addition Error

Week 4: Acids, Bases, Buffers and Titrations, Acid-Base Equilibria

• Monoprotic and Diprotic Weak Acid Alpha Fractions

 
• Monoprotic Acid Alpha Fraction Excel Workbook

 
• Diprotic Acid Alpha Fraction Excel Workbook

 
• Monoprotic Acid Titration Curves

 
• Indicators and Simple Acid-Base Calculations

 
• Monoprotic Strong Acid Exact Solution

 
• Monoprotic Weak Acid

 
• Monoprotic Weak Acid Salt

 
• Monoprotic Buffer Solutions

 
• Diprotic Weak Acid

 
• Diprotic Weak Acid Salt

 
• Diprotic Ampholytes

Weeks 5: Electrochemistry, Nernst Equation, Precipitation Equilibria

• The Nernst Equation, The Redox Potential and Electrochemical Alpha Fractions

 
• Pourbaix Diagrams (More EC Lecture Notes)

 
• Measuring Current in RC and Electrochemical Circuits

 
• Vanadium Redox Flow Battery

 
• Potentiometry Handout

 
• More on Electrochemical Potentials

 
• The Redox Cell with Pictures

 
• Electrochemical Alpha Fraction Graph

 
• Rechargeable Batteries

 
• Electrochemical Capacitors for Energy Storage

Week 6: Precipitation Equilibria

• J. Chem. Ed. Article on Potentiometric Chloride Titrations

 
• Precipitation Separation Calculation

Week 7 -- Complexation, EDTA Titrations

• EDTA Y4- Alpha Fractions and Metal Complexation Reactions

 
• EDTA Alpha Fraction Graph

 
• Calmagite for Complexometric EDTA Titrations

 
• Zinc-Ammonia Complexes

 
• Zinc-EDTA Complexation Reaction: no Ammonia

 
• Zinc-EDTA Complexation Reaction: with Ammonia

 
• Two More Complexation Problems

 
• Fluorometric Determination of Metal Complexes with 8-Hydroxyquinoline

 
• EDTA/Ca Titration pCa Graph

Weeks 8 and 9 -- Final Project: Seawater Analysis

• List of Seawater Experiments For M3LC

 
• Standard Seawater Ion Concentrations

 
• J. Chem. Ed. Seawater Analysis Paper

 
• Precipitation Calculation for EDTA Mg/Ca Measurement

 
• EGTA Titration for Calcium in Seawater

 
• EPA Sulfate Turbidity Measurement

 
• A VERY Old J. Chem. Ed. article on Potassium Tetraphenylboronate Precipitation

 
• Three Papers on the Colorimetric Determination of Bromide: One and Two
and Three
 
• Trace Metals in Seawater

Additional Notes on Various Topics

• Hydrothermal Vents

 
• Protein Analysis

 
• Ion Exchange Resins

 
• Mass Spectrometry Notes

 
• Table of Contents of the Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry, 8th ed. (Skoog et al.)