Assignment for Writing Guidelines for Labs and Research Paper in Chemistry
Go to the link for writing and answer the following questions.
Read the section “Purpose of this guide” in the document and answer the following question.
1. Give three reasons for the importance of writing in Chemistry?
Read the section “General guidelines for writing the lab report” and answer the following questions:
2. What is the correct verb tense to use in the lab? What verb tense should be used in the methods and observations section?
3. What person is the lab report written in?
Read the section “Presenting the data..the good, the bad and the ugly” and answer the following questions after comparing the two tables given (the bad table on the left and the good table on the right).
4. List at least three problems with the table on the right.
Read the section “Some real examples” and answer the following questions:
5. Read the original text number 2 and comment on why the revised statement is a better way to write.
Read the section “Purpose of this guide” in the document and answer the following question.
1. Give three reasons for the importance of writing in Chemistry?
Read the section “General guidelines for writing the lab report” and answer the following questions:
2. What is the correct verb tense to use in the lab? What verb tense should be used in the methods and observations section?
3. What person is the lab report written in?
Read the section “Presenting the data..the good, the bad and the ugly” and answer the following questions after comparing the two tables given (the bad table on the left and the good table on the right).
4. List at least three problems with the table on the right.
Read the section “Some real examples” and answer the following questions:
5. Read the original text number 2 and comment on why the revised statement is a better way to write.
Graphing in Chemistry
Go to the link for Graphing and use the tutorial to answer the following questions for the sample data given below.
1. Enter and format data in an Excel spreadsheet in a form appropriate for graphing.
2. Create a scatter plot from spreadsheet data.
3. Insert a linear regression line (trendline) into the scatter plot.
4. Use the slope/intercept formula for the regression line to calculate the concentration of an unknown solution given its absorbance.
1. Enter and format data in an Excel spreadsheet in a form appropriate for graphing.
2. Create a scatter plot from spreadsheet data.
3. Insert a linear regression line (trendline) into the scatter plot.
4. Use the slope/intercept formula for the regression line to calculate the concentration of an unknown solution given its absorbance.
Sample Spectrophotometric Data for the graph:
Concentration of the
Colored Solution (M) (x) |
Absorbance (y) |
0.03 |
0.048 |
0.05 |
0.123 |
0.10 |
0.239 |
0.20 |
0.478 |
0.40 |
0.965 |
Unknown |
0.338 |