CHEM281-16S1 (C) Semester One 2016

Practical Chemistry

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2016
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2016
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 March 2016
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 22 May 2016

Description

This course is required to major in chemistry and preferably it is taken in conjunction with other 200-level chemistry courses. The topics covered in this course are: preparative organic and inorganic chemistry; purification of chemicals including chromatography; practical spectroscopy and basic analytical methodology; data analysis, errors and Excel competence. Kinetic and thermodynamic measurements on solutions.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Owen Curnow

Lecturers

Sally Gaw , Antony Fairbanks and Christopher Fitchett

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Laboratory work 45%
Reports 20%
Quizzes 15%
Test 20%

Course links

Course handout and content (PDF 182KB)

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $832.00

International fee $3,638.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Physical & Chemical Sciences .

All CHEM281 Occurrences

  • CHEM281-16S1 (C) Semester One 2016