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172 is a continuation, not a reset
The syllabus explicitly frames it as a continuation of 171, so students are expected to bring basic lab discipline with them rather than relearn it from scratch.
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01:160:172 · Chemistry · School 01 — New Brunswick School of Arts and Sciences
General Chemistry Lab is the follow-on laboratory to 171. Rutgers syllabus material describes it as a continuation focused on additional laboratory techniques and more advanced experiments, especially analytical chemistry, solution properties, kinetics, equilibrium, and buffer behavior.
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Summer 2026
1 open in snapshot · 1 instructor
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Livingston
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TWTh 2:00 PM · Livingston · 1 section · 1 open
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The course starts by treating measurement as a tool for answering a chemical question, not just collecting numbers. Bleach analysis and gravimetric sulfate determination push students to think about how a carefully executed procedure produces a numerical composition claim.
A second cluster of labs looks at how solubility and freezing-point behavior reveal molecular information. Instead of memorizing definitions, students use temperature and phase-change behavior to infer properties of an unknown substance.
The kinetics experiment shifts the course into rate thinking. The point is to read a changing system over time and use that data to estimate activation-energy style quantities rather than only describe whether a reaction happens.
Several labs revolve around equilibrium itself: first introducing the idea, then evaluating an equilibrium constant, and finally applying that reasoning to acid, weak-acid, salt, and buffer systems. This is where Gen Chem II concepts become concrete.
The skills test and buffer-resistance work reflect the real expectation of 172: students should not only know the chemistry, but also be able to weigh accurately, read burets, graph data, and explain why a solution behaves the way it does under stress.
Public Rutgers discussion around chem lab is thinner for 172 than for 171, and much of it is logistical rather than reflective. The consistent student message is that the lab feels straightforward when the paperwork and prep are handled early, but it still rewards precision and staying on top of prerequisites.
The syllabus explicitly frames it as a continuation of 171, so students are expected to bring basic lab discipline with them rather than relearn it from scratch.
Experiments like bleach analysis or gravimetric sulfate determination only work when the hands-on method and the calculation logic both line up.
Instead of treating equilibrium as a textbook chapter, the course has students watch how measurable systems respond and then quantify that response.
The buffer labs emphasize how solution composition changes what happens when acid or base is added, which is more useful than memorizing definitions alone.
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Even when the workflow is structured, the course still expects accurate calculations, neat data handling, and a chemical explanation of the result.
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The syllabus highlights buret reading, weighing, graphing, and data analysis directly, so treat those as core skills rather than side details.
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Ask what was actually varied, what was measured, and how that measurement connects to K, pH, or rate.
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Before class, identify the unknown quantity the experiment is solving for and the equations that connect the raw measurements to that answer.
1 open · Livingston
| Section | Status | Instructor | Meeting | Campus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| R100523 | Open | Emmanuel Hove | Tuesday 2:00 PM-5:00 PM at BE 050; Wednesday 2:00 PM-5:00 PM at BE 050; Thursday 2:00 PM-5:00 PM at BE 050BE 050 | Livingston |
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