Goggles will be worn at all times. Gloves will
be worn when advised.
Prerequisite or Concurrent: Chem 39.
Attendance:
University regulations state that a student should attend
every scheduled class (Policies and Rules for Students section 42-27).
Frequent absence from class in unacceptable. If you miss a class
it is your responsibility to determine what material, announcements, handouts,
graded papers, etc., were missed due to your absence. You should
arrange for one of your classmates to hold returned papers in the event
you are absent when papers are returned. I do not assume responsibility
for holding papers if you are not there to pick them up, or have not made
arrangements for someone else to pick them up. I will, of course,
try to hold unclaimed papers for a few days.
Makeups:
At my convenience before the end of the semester.
If you cannot makeup the lab before the semester ends you will be given
a 0 for the lab.
Lab Report due dates: Usually one week from
the completion of the experimental work.
Lab Reports: The following is part of the
laboratory report:
Cover page – Download below.
PreLab – this is to be COMPLETED BEFORE
you come into the lab. If it is not completed, you will not be permitted
to do the experiment till it is completed which may result in insufficient
time for the experiment.
Summary of Experiment – This is a thorough
but BRIEF summary of what you plan to do. This is NOT a summary of
the procedure, which should simply be referenced. State what you plan
to do making sure to include named reactions, special procedures, and special
apparatus utilized. Do NOT give experimental details. Think of
this as what could be a verbal summary you would give if someone asked what
you were doing.
Learning/Experimental Goals – Provide atleast
3 that would be specific to the experiment.
Reaction Equations and/or Diagrams of Special
Apparatus
Chemical Data Table – Blank data tables
are downloadable at the bottom of page.
Chromatographic Behavior Comparison of Starting
Material and Product
Spectral-Feature Comparison of Starting Material
and Product
Explanation of Product Isolation and Purification
or “Work-Up”
PreLab Exercises – Only for those experiments
that provide them.
InLab – This consists of the your observations
and data that you collected during the experiment in your lab notebook.
The first thing that you should do is reference the source of the procedure.
Since you have referenced the procedure you do not write down every detail
of the experiment, but what you do write must be clear and concise and
in complete sentences. You must include all measurements and observations
for everything that you do as you do it, even if it does not work.
The idea is that based upon what you have written in your lab notebook,
it should be possible for someone to read it and understand exactly what
you did during the experiment and be able to repeat it.
PostLab
Results and Discussion – See the Cover Page
for requested material.
PostLab Exercises – Answer all questions
at the end of the experiment.
Quizzes:
Written quizzes may be given at the beginning of any
laboratory period. They will not be announced. They will cover
the laboratory and reading material assigned or announced for that day including
any questions within.
Percentage Grade
95 or more A
92 or more A-
88 or more B+
85 or more B
82 or more B-
75 or more C+
70 or more C
60 or more D
Less than 60 F
Dropping the Course:
Contact the Office of the Registrar in room 109 Smith.
No course can be dropped after the end of the drop period. This date,
and your final exam time and date, as well as other useful information
is always appended to the copy of course offerings for any semester.
This usually occurs just before or just after the THIRD scheduled examination
in this course (This semester, the third exam is scheduled before the last
day to drop). Caution! in dropping courses is advised because of a
maximum (during your entire PSU tenure) allowed number of credits you may
drop between the end of the "free" drop period until the end of the allowed
drop period (when you have to pay to drop).
Campus Statement on Academic Integrity, adopted by
the Altoona Campus Faculty Senate on March 19, 1985.
"Academic integrity is the pursuit of scholarly
activity free from fraud and deception and is an educational objective of
this institution. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited
to cheating, plagiarism, fabrication of information or citation, facilitating
acts of academic dishonesty by others, unauthorized prior possession of
examinations, submitting work of another person or work previously used
without informing the instructor, or tampering with the academic work of
other students." (Policies and Rules for Students. Section 49-20)
Consequences of Academic Dishonesty:
"The penalty for academic dishonesty in less serious
cases consists of a failing grade for the work or test where this misconduct
occurred. This decision is made by the instructor. For more
serious cases of dishonesty, the penalties are more severe, (including automatic
failure for the course, probation, suspension or expulsion from the University),
and formal due process procedures are available for the student and faculty
involved. Section 49-20 of the Policies and Rules for Students provides
the details on these procedures."
Scheduled Classes Not Met:
In Extraordinary circumstances (which have occurred
from time to time in the past, and which will occur from time to time in
the future), when classes are missed due to reasons other than instructor
illness, power failures, weather, and the like, in which the missed classes
are not made up), missed classes will be rescheduled if possible, in conjunction
with the Office of the Registrar. Any such rearranging and rescheduling
would be announced in class so that appropriate arrangement could be made
by all.
Schedule For Spring 2004
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