Chem 213 Tutorial
Practical Spectroscopy
2012

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Office: Elliott 334a
Phone: 472-5212
email: fawkesk@uvic.ca

First class:
Fall tutorials start the week of Sept. 10, 2012. Please see appendix C (white pages) of the 213 manual for all the details about the tutorials. Read pages C-1 to C-14 prior to your first tutorial and come to Ell 349 prepared to do the first lab exercise (this is a different room than listed on your registration). You will need to bring your manual, a pencil, a calculator, and your pre-lab assignment answers. Safety glasses will be supplied. No laboratory notebook is required.

You must be registered in the lecture portion of the course (Chem 213 A01) and a tutorial section (Chem 213 T_ _ ) in order to earn credit in the tutorials. Those students hoping to use the credit of a previous tutorial mark to repeat the course must email Kelli Fawkes before the last day to add a class in the semester.

Summer tutorials start the week of May 7, 2012 (subject to funding).

Tutorial schedules: Please click your section for a detailed schedule of times and locations. Note: the laboratory sessions are not in your regular room.
Fall 2012
T01 Monday 9:00 am-1:00 pm (Kelli Fawkes)     T6 Problem      Evaluation
T02 Monday 9:00 am-1:00 pm (closed)     T6 Problem      Evaluation
T03 Monday 1:30-5:30 pm (tba)     T6 Problem       Evaluation
T04 Monday 1:30-5:30 pm (tba)     T6 Problem       Evaluation
T05 Monday 5:30-9:30 pm (tba)     T6 Problem       Evaluation
T06 Monday 5:30-9:30 pm (closed)     T6 Problem      Evaluation
T07 Tuesday 2:30-6:30 pm (tba)     T6 Problem       Evaluation
T08 Tuesday 2:30-6:30 pm (tba)     T6 Problem       Evaluation
T09 Tuesday 6:30-10:30 pm (closed)      T6 Problem       Evaluation    
T10 Tuesday 6:30-10:30 pm (closed)     T6 Problem      Evaluation
T11 Wednesday 2:30-6:30 pm (tba)     T6 Problem       Evaluation     
T12 Wednesday 2:30-6:30 pm (tba)     T6 Problem       Evaluation
T13 Wednesday 6:30-10:30 pm (closed)       T6 Problem       Evaluation
T14 Wednesday 6:30-10:30 pm (closed)    T6 Problem       Evaluation
T15 Thursday 9:30 am-1:30 pm (closed)     T6 Problem       Evaluation
T16 Thursday 9:30 am-1:30 pm (closed)     T6 Problem      Evaluation
T17 Thursday 1:30-5:30 pm (tba)     T6 Problem       Evaluation
T18 Thursday 1:30-5:30 pm (tba)     T6 Problem       Evaluation
T19 Thursday 5:30-9:30 pm (tba)     T6 Problem       Evaluation
T20 Thursday 5:30-9:30 pm (closed)     T6 Problem       Evaluation
T21 Friday 2:30-6:30 pm (tba)     T6 Problem       Evaluation
T22 Friday 2:30-6:30 pm (tba)     T6 Problem       Evaluation
Summer 2012 (cancelled due to budget cuts)
T01 Monday 1:30-5:30 pm (Kelli Fawkes)     T6 Problem       Evaluation
T02 Monday 5:30-9:30 pm (closed)     T6 Problem       Evaluation
T03 Tuesday 2:30-6:30 pm (closed)     T6 Problem       Evaluation

Student Evaluation:
The tutorial component of the course is worth 25% of the total grade.
Students are required to attain passing grades in both the tutorial and lecture portions of the course. The pass mark in the tutorial is 50% and at least 70% of the tutorial material (based on marks allocated) must be completed and graded.

Suggestions:
This tutorial format is constantly changing based on feedback from students. The material presented in the manual and tutorials is prepared by me in consultation with the lecture instructor. Comments and suggestions are welcome at any time, just send me an email.
To help solicit feedback, a course committee of interested students will be gathered to meet with me once a month to discuss the progress throughout the term. If you are interested in participating, please volunteer in the first few weeks of classes. Summaries of the meeting are availble for all to see: meeting #1, meeting #2, meeting #3.

Goals of the Tutorial:
To understand the instrumentation and sampling methods of common spectroscopy techniques.
The three laboratory-based tutorials are designed to let you experience first-hand what is involved in preparing and analysing UV-Vis, IR, and NMR samples. The specific sampling techniques, instrument design, limitations of the method and processing and presentation of the results are key. These tutorials will help to prepare you for future lab courses.

To practice interpreting spectra from a variety of sources.
Each classroom-based tutorial will focus on the interpretation of different spectra and is meant to show additional examples to those covered in class as well as to introduce more complicated problems which require more time and discussion to interpret fully. This will help to further your understanding of the topics and practice problem-solving in an environment with lots of support.

To develop and extend the problem-solving skills introduced in the lecture.
The tutorial manual deliberately contains introductory material only. This is to encourage you to work through the material as a group with your tutorial instructor and fellow students in the tutorial session. There is one homework-based tutorial to allow you more time to examine complex questions and apply what you have learned.

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