Dr. Hester's Dilute Solution Viscosity Lab
The first lab you will do this year. It can also be found inthe timeline below.
Fall 2001 Semester Timelime
Check here to find out when you will do a lab. You can also find links to the individual labs here.
Grading Policy
Wondering how much that low Methods report grade will effect your
final grade? How many points is the final exam worth? Check here for the
answers to these burning questions, AND MORE!
QuickNotes
These are
short introductions or step-by-step walk throughs of various programs we
have available for your amusement and edification. Try 'em; you'll
like
'em!.
LabNotes
These are the
"methods" that you will use to determine the properties of your polymers. They combine several skills into a procedure for doing
something. Measuring an intrinsic viscosity is a good example. These
LabNotes summarize methods for quick review and planning for the
labs.
Lab Report Format
This link (it works) gives you a format for the lab write-up. This
format is required in terms of overall content (ie, sections and
organization) but will vary in detail for each lab.
Methods Report
Not quite as "in-depth" as a lab report, these are the reports you write after performing a method found in LabNotes.
The following are in development. Sorry!
Skill Notes
The most basic
component of lab work
are the "skills" you learn: how to weigh, measure temperature and volume,
make up accurate-concentration solutions. These notes are designed to
help you review or learn these crucial skills: use them! You can't
run a marathon if you don't know how to walk yet.
Tech Notes
Techniques are
actually the kinds of
projects or composite experiments that you do in research. You put
together two or more methods with a sprinkling of skills to answer some
fundamental question you need or want the answer to: "How do Tg, Tm and
crystallinity vary in nylon copolymers?" is a good example. We will
pursue several "techniques" at this level during the next nine months.
This will give you first-hand experience in how to organize your time for
implementing and coordinating various methods needed for a given
technique: this is not a cookbook exercises. Even I (heaven
forbid) don't know the answer to the questions we will ask. Doesn't that
give an "edge" to the lab you haven't seen before? There's no right
answer; how in the world can you figure out how to fudge your data so you
get a better grade?
Select a laboratory module you want to look at, but remember that
the labs may not listed in the order of execution:
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