Course Description

CH261: Analytical Chemistry

This course provides juniors in chemistry with a rigorous background in chemical principles that is particularly important to analytical chemistry and gives an appreciation for the challenging task of judging the accuracy and precision of experimental data.

Prerequisites by topic: Strong and weak electrolytes, acid and base concepts including strength, unit of weight and concentration (moles, formula weight, percent (w/w), volume percent (v/v) etc.), stoichiometric relationship, equilibrium concept and equilibrium constant calculation.