2. Paper 33, Tue 24 May, Session 2 Paper 34, Thurs 2 June, Session 2
Lab practical's 2016
Paper 33, Tue 24 May, Session 2
Paper 34, Thurs 2 June, Session 2

3. General Advice RTQ3. Read the paper three times.....
1. The whole question before attempting to answer. Get an overview of what’s needed and see the inter-relationship between each part of the question.
2. Read carefully the part you now need to start answering* Sketch what you have to do

4. General Advice
RTQ3
3. Once your answer is written, re-read the question.... Does the answer you’ve written actually answer the question stated?

5. Suggestion: Turn the instructions into pictures

6. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS… DO WHAT YOU ARE INSTRUCTED TO DO
This is a test of your practical ability to carry out instructions, not a measure of your creativity or expanded chemical knowledge.

13. Bromophenol blue

22. Different backgrounds can help clarify where the meniscus is.

23. IF you use a funnel, DON’T FORGET TO REMOVE IT
IF you use a funnel, DON’T FORGET TO REMOVE IT! (I avoid using it, although there’s a greater risk of splashing)

24. Rinse down your titrant and analyte splashes

28. Mass generally to 2 dp.

30. Mass of EMPTY CONTAINER (handy for mistakes)
TARE (if instructions don’t disallow)
Take contain off balance
Add compound
Put container back on balance
Remove excess material off the balance also

31. Be careful with titre values
1 dp accepted for rough, but BEST to always do 2 dp !!
Can use rough reading. I really discourage it though!
Rough
Accurate titrations
titration 1 2 3
Final burette reading / cm3
 22.3
 43.50
 21.30
 42.60
Initial burette reading / cm3
 0.8
 22.20
 0.30
Vol of FB2 used / cm3
 21.5
Used this for average titre
Indicate which you will use for average titre

32. Previous table = ‘suspicious’ Why….?
Rough
Accurate titrations
titration 1 2 3
Final burette reading / cm3
 22.3
 43.50
 21.30
 42.60
Initial burette reading / cm3
 0.8
 22.20
 0.30
Vol of FB2 used / cm3
 21.5
Used this for average titre

33. Previous table = ‘suspicious’ Why….?
Rough
Accurate titrations
titration 1 2 3
Final burette reading / cm3
 22.3
 43.50
 21.30
 42.60
Initial burette reading / cm3
 0.8
 22.20
 0.30
Vol of FB2 used / cm3
 21.5
Used this for average titre
READ THE BURETTE ACCURATELY

34. YOU MUST SHOW YOUR CALCULATION for the average titre
YOU MUST SHOW YOUR CALCULATION for the average titre. Don’t just report a number. E.g. Show x+y+z / 3 if say you had 32.35, 32.44

35. STOPWATCH….
Round to the nearest second.

36. Thermometers can be read half way between their graduation marks. E. g
Thermometers can be read half way between their graduation marks. E.g. a 1oC thermometer can be read to the neared +/- 0.5 oC, Generating temperature data like 20.5, 18.5, 16.0, i.e. the decimal figure is either a 0 or a Similar to burette but that’s 0.05

37. Be careful with significant figures…
Keep “big calculator numbers in your calculator for use later on.” but report step-wise calculations to the correct number of s.f.
IF you use the rounded up figures for later calculation, your error will rapidly increase.
Your answer can NEVER be more accurate than the data it came from so of data = 3s.f. combined with data with 4 s.f. then answer should be to 3 s.f.
When No. of s.f is small (e.g. 2  i.e. an experiment with poor accuracy) then then usually can quote answer to 3 s.f.