Sunscreens: Conjugation and UV Protection
Students use a UV-Vis spectrometer to observe the absorbance of various suncreens in the UVA and...
Analysis of Aspirin Tablets
Students use a UV-Vis spectrometer to determine the mass of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) in a single aspirin tablet and compare the results to the ASA content...
Sugar Concentration through Polarimetry: Biot's Law
Students use a polarimeter and Biot's law to determine the unknown concentration of several sucrose...
Kinetics of Sugar Rotation
Students use a polarimeter determine reaction order and rate constant of an acid-catalyzed sucrose hydrolysis reaction and an invertase-catalyzed reaction.
Specific Rotation of Sugar
Students use a polarimeter to experimentally determine the specific rotation of the sucrose molecule.
Sugar Concentration through Polarimetry
Students use a polarimeter to determine the unknown concentration of a sucrose solution.
Exploring a Rotating System
Students construct and collect data with an experimental system to determine angular velocity, angular acceleration, applied torque, and the rotational...
Exploring Physical Pendulums
Students use a meter stick as a physical pendulum to explore the factors that affect the period and the mathematical properties of the physical pendulum...
Heat of Fusion of Ice
This lab investigates the concept of conservation of energy as applied to calorimetry: In a closed system, the sum of all materials that gain (absorb)...
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