prelab chemistry
- Review the Skill Builders, and be sure you understand the concepts in them:
- How to generate a standard curve complete with a title and labeled axes
- How to make a solution from a solid and calculate its concentration.
- How to determine the concentration of diluted solutions made from a given stock solution.
- The variables in the Beer-Lambert law and how this law will be used in this experiment.
- Basic concepts of molecular spectroscopy to include:
- The relationship between transmittance and absorbance.
- How the Genesys spectrophotometer works, how to prepare it for use, and what data we’ll collect from it.
- The relationship between a chemical’s lambda max (lmax) and the color we see.