Investigating Strong Acids and Strong Bases (Experiment)

Investigating Strength of Acids and Strong Bases (Experiment)

Investigating Strong Acids, Weak Acids, and
Salts with a pH Meter
A modified procedure with real data for asynchronous use While we know that this will not provide the same experience as performing the
experiment yourself, we hope the experience will provide an understanding of the actions, observations, thinking, and analysis you could obtain if you performed the experiment yourself. Our goal is to provide a way for you to learn about the lab experiment, to the extent possible, as if you performed the lab.

In this virtual laboratory, we will attempt to create an experience that highlights what you would do in lab (Lab Actions) and what you might notice and observe (Lab Observations). We will also provide some guidance in the interpretation and analysis of the data to help you understand the chemistry going on at the atomic scale (Lab Thinking/Analysis). When reading through the material, we will use the symbols shown above to alert you to these aspects of the lab.

We have designed the lab to place you in the role of group leader of a research team. While you will not actually perform the experiment, assume three members of your research team will each go into lab independently, and report back their findings. Your job as research leader will be to understand what they have done, polish whatever analysis they provide to you, and create a report of the set of data you will upload on ICN. Since you will be examining three, real data sets, you will have the opportunity to calculate average results, as well as the uncertainty of measurement in the data. We hope this will provide a substitute for performing the lab on campus. Goodluck!