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I believe Tyler Weaver, sent an e-mail about lab and some of the
things below so<br>
some of this you should already be aware of. I've still received
some questions<br>
concerning the notebooks, reports, etc., I decided to send
something to everyone.<br>
<br>
1) You can find a number of useful things on my course web page at<br>
the link below. I have several helpful links there about the
lab<br>
and information about each exp. Many of the exps have changed<br>
since last Spring so I'm still in the process of updating
things.<br>
<br>
<a
href="http://chemistry.osu.edu/%7Erzellmer/chem1220/lab/lab_1220.htm"><b>Laboratory</b></a><br>
<br>
2) You can find useful information concerning the lab, including
some of the<br>
links below, at the following departmental link<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://uglabs.cbc.osu.edu/1220/">https://uglabs.cbc.osu.edu/1220/<br>
</a><br>
3) For those of you who haven't done it yet, you should have your
notebook prepared.<br>
Take a look at the syllabus and the following link for an idea
of what should be in there,<br>
<br>
<a href="https://uglabs.cbc.osu.edu/gc-labnotebook/"><b>Chem
Lab Notebook - Departmental Guidelines for Lab Notebooks</b></a><br>
<br>
If you took 1210 you may have looked at this material or
something similar. If you didn't<br>
take 1210 you want to look at the link. It discusses what
should be in the notebook and<br>
has a pretty good example of a good notebook, both before and
after lab.<br>
<br>
The next link shows an example I did for the first 2 steps from
the lab manual for an<br>
old exp. It's just a simple example<br>
<br>
<a
href="https://cbc-wb01x.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/%7Erzellmer/chem1220/lab/notebook_proc_1220.pdf"><b>My
Suggestions for Writing a Notebook Procedure</b></a><br>
<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: white"><font face="Times New
Roman"><br>
</font></span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: white"><font
face="Times New Roman"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: white"><font
face="Times New Roman"> </font></span>Someone with a
reasonable understanding of chemistry should be able to pick up
your<br>
notebook and be able to follow what you've done and repeat
the experiment just from the<br>
notebook w/o the manual.<br>
<br>
</font></span> 4) Most of the reports are FULL reports . <br>
<br>
If you want to know what a FULL report is look at the following
two links,<br>
<br>
<a href="https://uglabs.cbc.osu.edu/gc-labreport/"><b>Chem
Lab Report - Departmental Guidelines for Writing a Lab Report</b></a><br>
<br>
<a
href="https://cbc-wb01x.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/%7Erzellmer/chem1220/lab/chem1220_sample_lab_report.pdf"><b>Lab
Report Format - My Lab Report Outline</b></a><br>
<br>
The first link is from the department and explains what
should be in each section<br>
of a report and has a link to an example at the bottom of
the page. The 2nd one<br>
is my summary of what it should look like with what should
be in each section.<br>
The Word template on Carmen will help with this as well in
terms of the order and<br>
such. My example pretty much just tells you what should be
in each section.<br>
<br>
a) The procedure section in the report is simply a bibliographic
reference unless<br>
you made any changes. Any changes you make should go in
this section below<br>
the bibliographic reference. Otherwise, we do NOT want any
details of the<br>
procedure in the report. These should NOT be in the
Discussion section either.<br>
<br>
5) Each week you must have your notebook prepared when you walk into
lab.<br>
The TA will come around the lab in the first 10 minutes or so
and check to<br>
see if you have the notebook prepared. If not you can loose
points, the number<br>
of which you lose depends on what you have done.<br>
<br>
Any data you take in lab or anything you do related to the exp
should go <b>in</b><br>
<b>the notebook</b>. Do <b>NOT </b>write in the manual or on
another sheet of paper<br>
(even if your intent is to copy it to the notebook later).
Points will be deducted<br>
for this.<br>
<br>
Record values to the correct sig. fig. and include units. Use
tables when possible.<br>
Tables are often the best way to present data.<br>
<br>
Always in <b>PEN</b>. If you make a mistake put a single line
through it and write the<br>
correct data next to it. Do not scribble over the mistake and
do not use whiteout.<br>
<br>
The TA will grade your notebook (worth 5 pts) and tell you how
to improve it.<br>
<br>
Pretend like I'm your boss and we've been working on the most
important<br>
discovery since the creation of the universe. You are the one
doing a lot of<br>
the experiments and taking data. You leave for the day and get
hit by a bus.<br>
If you haven't recorded everything you've done in your notebook
and its not<br>
easy to follow and figure out what you've done I won't be able
to repeat your<br>
important work. Remember, I can't ask you what you did because
you were<br>
hit by a bus. There's all that work down the drain. You won't
get recognized<br>
by your peers or win the Noble Prize because you didn't keep a
proper<br>
notebook. That would be terrible (almost as bad as getting hit
by the bus).<br>
<br>
There's also performance points (5 pts). This means using the
correct<big><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: white"></span></big>
equipment,<br>
using it correctly, following directions, using the procedure in
your notebook and<br>
not the manual, etc. <br>
<br>
6) Exp 1 (SOL) help<br>
<br>
a) Go to the "Helpful Tidbits" link on my class web page (not
Carmen) and you will<br>
find a link for exp 1 (SOL) which should help with the lab
itself and the report. Hopefully<br>
you read it before doing the on-line data entry, going to
lab and then again before writing<br>
the report.<br>
<br>
<a
href="http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/%7Erzellmer/chem1220/faq/faq_1220.htm"><b>Helpful
Tidbits for 1220</b></a><br>
<br>
d) You can find examples of good graphs at the link below. The
first graph doesn't<br>
take up the full page since I had to shrink it so I could
write on it. The 2nd graph<br>
shows an example when you have more than one set of data
plotted. You can<br>
bring the legend inside the graph area to allow the graph to
spread out and occupy<br>
the whole page. You don't need a legend when there's only
one set of data plotted<br>
(as for graph 2 in exp 1). You do not need grid lines for
most of the graphs this semester.<br>
<br>
<a
href="http://chemistry.osu.edu/%7Erzellmer/sample_graphs.pdf"><b>Sample
Graphs</b></a><br>
<br>
There's also a link you can use to help get you started with
Excel if you've never<br>
used it before. It's a simple example for a density graph.
Go to the following link<br>
and you will find this, along with other useful links.<br>
<br>
<a
href="http://chemistry.osu.edu/%7Erzellmer/excel/excel.htm"><b>Using
MS Excel for Reports</b></a><br>
<br>
Many of my examples use an older version of Excel (Excel
2003). I have a link<br>
explaining the major differences between it and the newer
versions. Again, click tabs,<br>
right-click, etc. and explore what it can do and where to
find things. Look at the<br>
links for my exp "14" example using Excel. This is an old
exp which we are not<br>
presently doing. It shows how to do a lot of things in
Excel like calculations, more<br>
graphing more than one data set on a graph, etc. There's
also a short video for using<br>
Excel for exp 1 in the pre-lab. I believe you can watch it
again by going to "Feedback"<br>
at the departments 1220 lab page, which you accessed for the
Gatekeeper quiz.<br>
<br>
<br>
I hope this and my on-line help file address the majority of your
questions. If not ask.<br>
<br>
Dr. Zellmer
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