CHEM281-17S1 (C) Semester One 2017

Practical Chemistry

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2017
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 5 March 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 21 May 2017

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 and Antony Fairbanks

Assessment

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

Course links

Course handout and content (PDF 542KB)

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $848.00

International fee $3,713.00

* 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

  • CHEM281-17S1 (C) Semester One 2017