Students use household materials and a conductivity probe to explore factors that affect the conductivity of electrolytic solutions. Students gain experience in molarity and dilution calculations, solution preparation, nomenclature, statistical analysis, and graphical presentation of data. This hands-on activity is flexible and can be modified to accommodate both high school and undergraduate courses. Students can safely…
Chemistry LibreTexts features this excellent guided activity for introducing general chemistry students to data analysis using Microsoft Excel as contributed by Santa Monica College. In addition to learning how to determine averages, standard deviations, and outliers, students learn how to create simple scatter plots, as well as plots containing multiple data sets. The exercise features detailed…