Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to:

- understand the use and calibration of laboratory equipment

- prepare a lab notebook for data collection and reference

- understand the safe handling of chemicals and disposal methods of chemical wastes

- understand how solutions are prepared and work solution problems involving dilutions

- work solution problems using the various concentration expressions

- understand the concept of significant figures

- distinguish between the different types of experimental errors

- estimate the uncertainty in measurements

- determine and understand the statistical analysis of experimental data

- understand the concepts involving the chemical equilibrium constant, K

- review acid-base concepts like pH and use of ionization constants

- determine and use the solubility product constant, Ksp, and the effects of complex ion

- review the technique of titration and learn a variety of methods to determine information

about the analyte

- understand spectrophotometric concepts like absorbance, emission, transmittance, and Beer's Law, and gain experience with these concepts using instrumentation

- review the concepts of electrochemistry and extract chemical information using potentiometry.