Course detail

Laboratory Experiments on Chemistry

FSI-TCH Acad. year: 2019/2020 Summer semester

Laboratory code and safety measures, legislation. Laboratory notes, laboratory equipment. Basic laboratory work – weighing, work with glass, measuring volumes of liquids, preparation and dilution of the solutions. Heating, annealing, cooling, dehydrating, crystallization, filtration, decantation, extraction. Determination of variables – refracting index, melting point, density, pH. Simple tasks – mixture division, reduction of noble metal from the solution, pyrophoric lead.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Obtaining skills and a practical knowledge of basic operations that are used in the chemical laboratory.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of secondary school chemistry and basic mathematics.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through practical laboratory work.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The laboratory notebook (control of preparation), report sheets, course-unit credit test.

Aims

The goal is to provide students with an overview of basic safety rules work in the chemical laboratory, to acquaint students with basic tasks, teach students to work independently in a chemical laboratory with hazardous substances.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The presence of students at practice is obligatory and is monitored by a tutor. The way how to compensate missed practice lessons will be decided by a tutor depending on the range and content of the missed lessons.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme B-FIN-P: Physical Engineering and Nanotechnology, Bachelor's, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Laboratory exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

Laboratory code and safety measures, legislation. (0 – 2 lessons)
Laboratory notes, laboratory equipment. (3 – 4)
Basic laboratory work – weighing, work with glass, measuring volumes of liquids, preparation and dilution of the solutions. (5 – 8)
Filtration – standard atmospheric pressure, hot filtration, lowered pressure. (9 – 12)
Crystallization, heating, cooling, dehydrating, annealing. (13 – 16)
Decantation, extraction. (17 – 18)
Determination of variables – refracting index, melting point, density, pH. (19 – 20)
Simple tasks – mixture division, substratum cleaning (organic impurities removing,
wet oxid removing). (21 – 26)