Reset for Spring and Labs
I’ve uploaded the new documents for spring quarter for CHEM 1050, CHEM 1090, and CHEM 1100.
I also added a new lab resource for experiment 6 in CHEM 1100. I still need to add one more for experiment 5b.
CHEM 1090 Labs and Statistics
There’s now a page for the gas law experiment, experiment 9. That one was interesting because I had to go and find a mathematical formula that describes the relationship between temperature and water vapor pressure. There was either the Antoine equation or the Wagner equation and I decided to go with the Wagner equation.
I also modified the statistics page for large and small numbers. If the magnitude of the average is larger than 104 or smaller than 10-4 then the results will be displayed using scientific notation.
CHEM 1090 Labs
I now have a page up that will help students with the data from experiment 8.
Statistics and Labs
I’ve added the calculation of the mean and sample standard deviation to the lab resources section.
Graphing and Labs
Because of the canvas elements in HTML5, one can now do graphing on the web without having to resort to Flash, Java, or some plugin (I do NOT miss the days of rampant plugins!). I don’t remember how I found out about it (some random stumbling through the web I’m sure), but here are a couple of sites that discuss it:
So last week I decided to do more than simply stumble through the web and started looking for a library that I could use and I found a great one called JSXGraph. After about a week of learning how to use the library, how to dynamically modify tables, and getting some feedback from other people (thank you Dana Nimic!), I think I finally have a nice, generic solution to graphing which will help students do a quick analysis of data.
I didn’t place it explicitly in this site, however. OK, I nestled it in a folder of this site but it’s not really part of my site because I’ve started working on something for lab. We are in the (slow) process of upgrading the computers in lab and a big (ginormous) problem is that all of the programs are specialty ones written specifically to do certain tasks with a command-line interface. I need to replicate the functionality of those programs and I plan on having students access it using a web browser.
Graphing and linear regression (best-fit lines) was the first step...
Here’s the link to the chemistry lab resources.