LAB 0.

3-DATA ANALYSIS USING LOGGER PRO SOFTWARE

Please view the following video lectures which are very helpful in working-up your LabQuest data:

“LoggerPro Data Workup O-3” (12:06) http://media.collegeanywhere.org/view/content/15509

“LoggerPro Data Workup O-3 –Addendum “(1:26)

http://media.collegeanywhere.org/view/content/15510

“LoggerPro Data Analysis O-3” (23:37) http://media.collegeanywhere.org/view/content/15515

1. Start the Logger Pro software which you previously downloaded to your desktop on your PC.

2. Plug-in your USB drive containing your stored titration data file to a USB port on your PC.

3. From the main menu select File, Open…, and open the saved LabQuest file from your USB drive
(file will have a QMBL extension).

4. Right mouse-click on any of the points in your titration curve. Click the “connect points” box in
the “Appearance:” section of the dialog box that opens. Click Done. Your titration curve now
has a smooth line connecting all the data points.

5. From the main menu choose Page, Add Page…

6. From the Starting Contents: section click the “Copy Current Page” box. Click OK.

7. On that new page, click on the titration graph to highlight just the entire graph. The data table
should not be highlighted. Delete the graph by touching the delete key on your keyboard.

8. From the main menu click Data, New Calculated Column…, and when the new dialog window
opens, under the Column Definitions tab in the Label and Units: type the name of the table
column as “1st Derivative”.

9. With that same window open, click in the Equation: box and click the Functions> button, and
from the choices select “calculus” then “derivative”.

10. Now click the Variables> button, and from the draw-down choices click on pH. Click Done.

11. From the main menu choose Insert, Graph. A graph of the Volume of NaOH vs. 1st derivative of
the pH should now appear. Grab the corners of the graph and expand to the width of the page.

12. From the main menu select File, Save As…, and save the Logger Pro file (file will have a CMBL
extension).

13. To identify the equivalence point, i.e., the region where the pH made the greatest change, while
on the page containing the 1st derivative plot, from the main menu select Analyze, Examine. A
vertical line that moves with your mouse will now appear on the graph.
14. Place the vertical line on the peak of the 1st derivative plot and read the x-axis value in mL of
NaOH that appears as the first number in the parentheses at the bottom left-hand portion of the
graph. That value is the equivalence point.

15. Now return to page 1 by going to the menu bar and selecting page 1 from the drop-down in the
main menu.

16. Calculate one-half the equivalence point by dividing the mL value at the equivalence point by
two.

17. Place your cursor on the titration curve that corresponds to the value of one-half the
equivalence (read the x-axis value, i.e., first number of the two numbers in parenthesis, at the
bottom left-hand portion of the graph), and read the y-value (the second value of the two
numbers in parenthesis, at the bottom left-hand portion of the graph). That value corresponds
to the pKa of propionic acid (why?).

18. The graphs and the data tables can be copied and pasted into any word document as part of a
laboratory report.