Noah: What material should I study for the Analytical Chemistry ACS exam?
My professor hasn’t said a word about the final exam and there isn’t a study guide for the exam like there is for Organic, so I’m not sure if there’s anything I should focus on while studying or if I should just study all of the material we’ve covered.
Thanks guys.
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Answer by rhombohedral
The content stressed in an exam will differ slightly from professor to professor, but if I was going to test your overall knowledge, I would stress the following:
1) Concentration calculations for complex equilibria, the kind where you need to make use of not only the Ka’s of an acid, but also of the mass-balance equation and the ion-balance equation.
2) Determination of activities
3) Solubility and solubility product constants
4) Formation constants
5) Electrochemistry
6) Error propagation
A good book where all of this is covered in decent detail is:
Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry by Skoog, West, Holler, and Crouch
I hope this helped out. Good luck on your exam.
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