Chemistry Virtual Labs

General Instructions

All labs have two parts.

Part 1

VIDEO TO HELP CONDUCT LAB/ LAB REPORT:

Balancing Chemical Reactions Lab Link – Worksheet 1

Virtual Lab Exercises – To be carried out using a simulated lab or a worksheet. If it is a simulated lab, you need to submit a lab report. Otherwise, answers in a word document should be sufficient. Please follow the link below to understand how your lab report should be developed:

http://www.utm.edu/staff/cerkal/report.html

Week 6 Lab

Balancing Chemical Reactions and Determining Empirical and Molecular Formulae

Part 1

Complete the worksheets,

1. Balancing Chemical Reactions Simulated Lab Lab Report (Worksheet 1)

Visit: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/balancing-chemical-equations” rel=”noopener noreferrer” target=”_blank”>https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/balancing-chemical-equations

and run the simulation by clicking on the start button.

Get yourself familiar with the simulation. Complete the Introduction part of the simulation. Once you get the correct answers, move to the Game part of the lab. Complete levels 1, 2, and 3 and prepare a lab report.

You must complete all 3 levels.

The lab report must include balanced reaction mechanisms.

You must write a lab report to explain your experiment, the method, and the conclusions being the balanced chemical reactions.

1. Complete the balancing chemical reactions worksheet Worksheet 2

Lesson 7 (Chapters 9 & 5)

Discussion Topic: Problem Solving

Instructions: Your initial post over the material outlined above for Topic 1

To make your posts, select on START A NEW THREAD above:

State your name and Problem Numbers in the title (Title: Jane Doe, Problems 9.85 and 5.76).

In addition to your initial posts to the topics in this Week 15 Discussion you are required to also reply to at least two classmates’ original posts, and each reply must include direct questions. Your replies can add additional insight to your classmates’ opinions, suggest other alternative approaches, or anything similar. Be sure to read the follow-up posts to your own posts and reply to everyone who comments on your post.

For this topic, you will select two problems from the text (in the link there is a book), one problem from each of the following two problem sets:

For Problem 1: You MUST select a Chapter 9 problem from the end of the chapter “Exercises” from problem number 70-105.

For Problem 2: You MUST select a Chapter 5 problem from the end of the chapter “Exercises” from problem number 51-86.

Create a discussion post in this forum about the article you read. How important is having a standard unit system? Have you ever experienced a misunderstanding that resulted in a mix-up similar to the one in the article?

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/16/science/nasa-reviews-mixup-that-doomed-capsule.html