Analytical Chemistry

Analytical Chemistry deals with different processes to analyze unknown samples and identify the relative amounts of components. This class has more labs than other chemistry classes to provide students with more hands-on experiences and builds on important skills that are pertinent to many fields such as medicine, biochemistry, biology, and pharmacology. This course is essential for students who are considering a career in the life sciences.

Students learn qualitative and quantitative methods of chemical analysis. Sampling techniques, analytical statistics, units of measurement, and errors in chemical analysis are studied. Students learn traditional techniques in wet chemistry in addition to analytical instrumentation, including, but not limited to, gas chromatography, infrared spectroscopy, atomic absorption spectrophotometry, and nuclear resonance spectroscopy.

Analytical Chemistry Unit Outline

Unit 1: Chemical Equilibria

Unit 2: Fundamentals of Electrochemistry

Unit 3: Classical Methods of Analysis