Course: Laboratory Technology

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Course title Laboratory Technology
Course code TUIP/TP1LT
Organizational form of instruction Lesson + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Gajzlerová Lenka, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Krejčí Ondřej, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Polášková Martina, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Seminar: Introduction; materials, tools, instruments; laboratory procedure, operation; weighing, yield; laboratory records; tables. 2. Laboratory: Word safety, first aid; materials, tools, instruments; work with glass, assembling of the apparatus, laboratory instructions. 3. Seminar: Matter, weight, maintenance laws, volume and density. 4. Laboratory: Density determination, densimeter, flotation, pycnometer; sedimentation and decantation; raw material processing; plastics, polymers. 5. Seminar: Yield, theoretical yield, reaction range. Purity, contaminants. 6. Laboratory: Weighing; ceramics; heating, baths, flame, furnace; annealing, pigments preparation, lime burning. 7. Seminar: Solutions, concentration, dilution and mixing, calculations. 8. Laboratory: Work with liquids, common solvents, volume measuring, dosing, solutions preparation, purification, separation of the solutions components, filtration, precipitation, melting temperature, sublimation. 9. Seminar: Heterogeneous reactions, gases in the laboratories. 10. Laboratory: Work with gases, protective atmosphere, gases sources. 11. Seminar: Heat, heating and cooling; phase change, degrees of freedom, boiling point, evaporation, distillation. 12. Laboratory: Steam distillation, extraction, phases separation, refractive index. 13. Seminar: The history of the field. 14. Laboratory: Submissions, possibility of the substitution.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming), Demonstration, Simple experiments
  • Participation in classes - 42 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 20 hours per semester
  • Preparation for course credit - 28 hours per semester
learning outcomes
Knowledge
Describe the laboratory equipment, laboratory glassware and instruments
Describe the laboratory equipment, laboratory glassware and instruments
Determine the mass, volume and density of liquids and solids
Determine the mass, volume and density of liquids and solids
Define yield, theoretical yield and response range
Define yield, theoretical yield and response range
Describe the phase change
Describe the phase change
Characterize methods of separating components of mixtures based on sublimation, precipitation, density and evaporation
Characterize methods of separating components of mixtures based on sublimation, precipitation, density and evaporation
Skills
Basic skils required for work in laboratories and understands basic concepts for further study of chemistry and material technology
Basic skils required for work in laboratories and understands basic concepts for further study of chemistry and material technology
Assemble chemical apparatus
Assemble chemical apparatus
Select the appropriate type of laboratory glassware and equipment
Select the appropriate type of laboratory glassware and equipment
Work with gases and protective atmosphere
Work with gases and protective atmosphere
Separate the different components of mixtures on the basis of different chemical and physical properties
Separate the different components of mixtures on the basis of different chemical and physical properties
Prepare solutions, dilution and mixing
Prepare solutions, dilution and mixing
Describe the experiment and report it in a protocol
Describe the experiment and report it in a protocol
teaching methods
Knowledge
Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming)
Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming)
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
Skills
Simple experiments
Simple experiments
Demonstration
Demonstration
assessment methods
Knowledge
Analysis of another type of paper written by the student (Casuistry, diary, plan ...)
Grade (Using a grade system)
Grade (Using a grade system)
Analysis of another type of paper written by the student (Casuistry, diary, plan ...)
Didactic test
Didactic test
Recommended literature
  • -. dle doporučení vyučujícího.
  • Titus Lucretius Carus: O přírodě, Plinius Starší: Kapitoly o přírodě, Vitruvius: Deset knih o architektuře - vše Antická knihovna. H.S. Cyrano de Bergerac: Cesta na měsíc ? Cesta do sluneční říše.
  • GARLAND, C.W, NIBLER, J.W. SHOEMAKER, D.S. Experiments in Physical Chemistry. McGrawHill, 2009.
  • Růžička, A. a kol. Laboratorní technika a cvičení z anorganické chemie. Brno: PřF MU, 1995.
  • Sýkorová, D., Mastný, L. Návody pro laboratoře z anorganické chemie. Praha: VŠCHT, 2009.


Study plans that include the course
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