General Chemistry I: Lab Manual

General Chemistry laboratory can be both very challenging and very rewarding for students. Steven Rowley’s General Chemistry I Laboratory Manual assists students in the understanding of chemistry. It is written for a first semester General Chemistry lab course. The experiments contained in it parallel the material in most General Chemistry textbooks.

Many of the experiments in this manual utilize Microsoft Excel for data manipulation with a spreadsheet. The manual is designed so that pages may be easily removed from it. Students can remove pages containing pre-lab exercises, lab data, and questions to turn in for grading. The data tables are set up so that students can record data directly to them, making the lab manual a lab notebook in essence.

In the newest edition, a second titration lab has been added, in which acid base titrations are carried out. Also note that the first labs in the manual have calculations spelled out, whereas the later ones don’t. This is to try to get students to think about organizing their calculations, which is a very useful skill if they continue taking lab courses.