Chemistry 210, Section 001, 002, and 003 Spring, 2006 Introduction To Analytical Chemistry
Instructor:
				Dr. Joseph Topping Smith Hall, Room 555 Phone: 410-704-3056 Fax: 410-704-4265 e-mail: jtopping@towson.edu
Office Hours:
		Tuesday and Thursday @ 9:00-9:30 PM and Monday @ 9:30-11:00 AM
Lecture:
		9:30-10:45 AM, Tuesday and Thursday in Smith 524
Laboratory:
		Lab lecture will precede most (but not all) laboratory sessions and sections 001 (Tuesday) and 002 (Thursday) will meet in Smith 554 @ 1:00 PM; Section 003 (Monday) will meet for lab lecture @ 1:30 in Smith 508. All laboratory work will take place in Smith 509 and connecting rooms and will begin at the completion of lab lecture. Lab closes @ 5:00 PM on Tuesday and Thursday and 5:30 PM on Monday. You are free to attend any lab session other than your own, if you fall behind and need extra time, but you are expected to faithfully attend your assigned section each week.
Required Texts:
	Exploring Chemical Analysis, 3rd Edition D. Harris, W. H. Freeman Publishers, 2005; ISBN 0-7167-0571-0 You may wish to purchase the Solutions Manual For Exploring Chemical Analysis; ISBN # 0-7167-1170-2
Other Required Materials:
	Safety Glasses for Laboratory and a Laboratory Notebook that has numbered pages and makes carbon copies.
Grading:
	There will be four hour exams and a final exam. Each is of equal value and the four highest scores will count as 64% (16% per exam) of the total grade. The remaining 36% will be based on laboratory performance (laboratory reports and the instructor’s evaluation of your general competence in laboratory.) The +/- grading system will be used.
Grading Standards:
			A B C D F	88% and above 78% - 87% 68% - 77% 58% - 67% 57% and below
Make-Up Exams:
			There are none; a missed exam automatically becomes the lowest score and the score that is dropped (see section on grading, above.)

Attendance:
	Lecture – Mandatory only for exams. Laboratory – Students must complete all experiments, including an acceptable notebook record and reports for all experiments.
Cheating:
	Cheating on an exam or laboratory report will result in a zero for that particular experience.
Lecture Outline:
	The Analytical Process Chemical Measurements Math Toolkit Statistics Hour Exam I Quality Assurance Gravimetric Analysis Titration Acids and Bases Hour Exam II Acid-Base Titrations Polyprotic Acids and Bases Chemical Equilibrium Hour Exam III Optical Methods Atomic and Molecular Spectrophotometry Principles of Chromatography Gas and Liquid Chromatography Hour Exam IV Final Exam…Comprehensive, one question from each chapter.

Laboratory Schedule:

The Analytical Balance: Determining the Need for Drying Samples

Precision and Accuracy of Pipets and Volumetric Flasks

Gravimetric and Volumetric Determinations of Chloride (A comparison of

analytical methods)

Acid-Base Titrations

Complex-Forming Titration (Alternate approaches to the determination of calcium

In hard water)

Determination of the Dissociation Constant of a Weak Acid Using UV/Visible

Spectrophotometry

Separation and Analysis of a Mixture Using High Performance Liquid

Chromatography and UV/Visible Spectrophotometry

Atomic Absorption and Emission Spectroscopy (Determination of trace metals)