Edexcel A-level Chemistry Student Guide: Practical Chemistry

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Exam Board: Edexcel Level: A-level Subject: Chemistry First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Ensure your students get to grips with the core practicals and develop the skills needed to succeed with an in-depth assessment-driven approach that builds and reinforces understanding; clear summaries of practical work with sample questions and answers help to improve exam technique in order to achieve higher grades. Written by experienced teacher and author David Scott, this Student Guide for practical Chemistry: - Help students easily identify what they need to know with a concise summary of required practical work examined in the A-level specifications. - Consolidate understanding of practical work, methodology, mathematical and other skills out of the laboratory with exam tips and knowledge check questions, with answers in the back of the book. - Provide plenty of opportunities for students to improve exam technique with sample answers, examiners tips and exam-style questions. - Offer support beyond the Student books with coverage of methodologies and generic practical skills not focused on in the textbooks. Title Page Copyright Contents About this book Core Practicals 1 Measure the molar volume of a gas 2 Use a standard solution to find the concentration of a solution of sodium hydroxide 3 Find the concentration of a solution of hydrochloric acid 4 Investigation of the rates of hydrolysis of halogenoalkanes 5 Investigation of the oxidation of ethanol 6 Chlorination of 2-methylpropan-2-ol using concentrated hydrochloric acid 7 Analysis of some inorganic and organic unknowns 8 To determine the enthalpy change of a reaction using Hess’s law 9 Finding the Ka value for a weak acid 10 Investigating some electrochemical cells 11 Redox titration 12 The preparation of a transition metal complex 13a Following the rate of the iodine–propanone reaction by a titrimetric method 13b Investigating a ‘clock reaction’ to determine a rate equation 14 Finding the activation energy of a reaction 15 Analysis of some inorganic and organic unknowns 16 The preparation of aspirin Questions & Answers Practical exam-style questions Glossary Index