Spring 2024 CHEM 120-Spectrophotometry

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Spring 2024 CHEM 120 Spectrophotometry: Pigments, light, and concentration Discussion Questions Make sure that your responses to these discussion questions is legible, if your responses are illegible they will not receive credit. We suggest that you type your responses. Using the data that you collected and wrote in your lab notebook during lab, organize your data into the required tables or graphs. Make sure that you format the table properly, i.e. include a title and labels for your columns, etc. Also make sure your plots are properly formatted and clearly labeled. 1. In a single table, tabulate your calibration curve data points. Make sure to include all proper labels and units for your solutions, concentrations, and Absorbance values. Also include your λ max value (2 points). Solution Concentration (M) Absorbance at λ max 668.5 nm Stock 0.0003000 0.337 50% 0.0001500 0.183 25% 0.0000750 0.095 12.5% 0.0000375 0.042 Table 1 Chlorophyll solutions with corresponding concentrations and measured absorbance at 668.5 nm 2. Attach plot for your calibration curve. Please format your graph including a title, axis-labels and units. Include your best fit line displaying the appropriate slope, y-intercept and R 2 value. (2 points). Figure 1 Graph of concentrations of chlorophyll solutions and measured absorbances at 668.5 nm
3. While doing the calibration curve plot for Spectrophotometry experiment, Zack and Mario had a conceptual discussion about how they should plot their data. Zach thinks that they should force the trendline for the absorbance vs concentration through the origin. On the other hand, Mario thinks (0,0) should be added. Is Zack or Mario correct? Using your data, explain why. Is adding (0,0) equivalent to forcing the trendline through the origine? Please provide your answer in paragraph form (6 points) Zach is incorrect. Arbitrarily forcing the trendline through the origin as Zach suggests completely changes the slope and the y-intercept of the trendline. This equation is therefore inaccurate and gives an inaccurate value for absorbance. In contrast, Mario is correct. Adding the point (0,0) is valid when the y-intercept could feasibly be this point. In this case, we measured the absorbance of a blank cuvette, which has a concentration and absorbance of 0. Since the data point exists, we could feasibly add this point without qualitatively affecting the data.
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