CM3192 — Physical and Analytical Chemistry Experiments

Academic Year 24/25 - Semester 1

​

Lecturer: Dr. Tan Wee Boon & Dr. Michael Yudistira

​

Difficulty of the course: 3/5

Pace of the course: Just right

Workload of Course (Average number of actual hours spent per week)

​To learn the content: 4 hours

To complete assignments: 10 hour​​​​​​​

​​

​

REVIEWS

What advice would you give to someone considering taking this course?

​​

Anonymous: Best is to not overload with this course, because this course is extremely workload-heavy.​

 

​​​

What did you enjoy or find most useful from this course?

​

Anonymous: The lab skills taught are extremely useful in QC roles in chemical industries.

​​​

​​

What aspects of the course did you find most challenging, and why?​

​

Anonymous: The workload is one of the highest out of the chemistry core courses, especially because of the tight deadline in PChem Lab Worksheets (1 day), and Lab Pro Formas and Long Reports (1 week).
 

​​​

What resources did you find most helpful in helping you better understand the course material?

​

Anonymous: For PChem, the pre-lecture videos and lecture notes were sufficient. But, for AChem, Chem Libretext is useful to understand the concepts behind the experiments in AChem as in AChem, you are expected to learn the instruments by yourself from the lab manual.

​​

​​

What other courses do you think should be taken before or concurrently with this module?

​​

Anonymous: CM3141, can be taken together or before. The overlap in content is only the XRD experiment and GC-MS/LC-MS experiment. Most of the PChem experiments is however linked to CM2133, while the AChem experiments instruments used were something new and not taught before.​