Syllabus Chem 112 Fall Semester 2002
Dr.
Frank Cheng; email: ifcheng@uidaho.edu;
Tel. 885-6387
Course Philosophy: My goal is to introduce you to chemical concepts that are used extensively by disciplines in the sciences and engineering. It is for this reason that chemistry is sometimes called the central science. A firm grounding in the topics will give you a molecular-level understanding of the concepts that form the basis of broad range of areas such as environmental studies, geology, biochemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science. My other goal is to give you a view of chemistry that in most cases only a chemist can do. I hope to bring to you my sense of excitement that I have for chemistry and chemical research. I hope above all that you will find and remember this course to be intellectually stimulating.
WWW: http://oxygen.chem.uidaho.edu/ifcchem1123/
Office Hours:
Renfrew Hall 26A, 2:30 - 4:30 TR, Please check Renfrew 26 & 27
Other hours: stop in or make an appointment
Texts:
General Chemistry, 7th edition, D.D. Ebbing & S.D. Gammon, Houghton Mifflin Company (2002)
Laboratory Manual for Principles of General Chemistry, 5th edition, J. A. Beran, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1994)
Calculator:
An inexpensive calculator is required. You will need the calculator class, recitation, laboratory, and on exams. It should have capabilities for square roots, logarithms, exponentiation (antilogarithms), and exponential (scientific) notation operations. Text entry calculators will not be permitted during exams or quizzes.
Recitations:
Quizzes: In cases where you suspect a grading error on the quiz, you must bring that to attention of TA with 48 hours of receiving that graded quiz.
Quiz 1 August 29 (not counted towards final grade, review of Chem 111 material)
Quiz 2 September 5
Quiz 3 September 12
Quiz 4 September 26
Quiz 5 October 3
Quiz 6 October 10
Quiz 7 October 24
Quiz 8 October 31
Quiz 9 November 7
Quiz 10 November 14
Quiz 11 December 5
Exams: There will be three hour exams and a two hour final exam. Check below for the examination dates. All exams will be held in Renfrew 111. Missed hour exams will be excused for illness. In cases of other university activities you must present a written excuse from the faculty advisor to me at least one week before the exam date. You must bring a photo-ID to all exams. In cases where you suspect a grading error on the exams, you must bring that to my attention with 48 hours of receiving that graded exam.
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Hour Exam 1 Wednesday,
September 18
· Hour Exam 2 Wednesday, October 16
· Hour Exam 3 Wednesday, November 20
· Final Exam Tuesday, December 17 (1:00 PM)
The final will be an American Chemical Society standardize exam. This will allow us to judge the class performance versus national norms.
Course Grades: Your course grade will be based on your final total number of points in the course. The final grade may be curved and will not be harder than the following:
· A (85% of total possible points +)
· B (75% +)
· C (62% +)
· D (52% +)
· F (less than 52%)
· Please note: In order to pass this course you must have a passing grade in both the lecture (52% of nonlab points) and the laboratory (60% of lab points).
· If you are repeating Chem 112 you may keep a previous lab grade providing the grade is a 70% or better and it was received in the past year.
· Please keep and record all your graded exams, quizzes and labs from this course. You should be able to calculate your course grade from the following table. If have any questions please see me or your TA.
Calculation of
Course Grade
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Course percentage |
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Lecture grade: |
3 One Hour Exams |
37.5 |
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10 Recitation Quizzes |
12.5 |
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Final Exam |
25 |
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Lab Grade: |
13 Laboratories |
25 |
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Total |
100 |
Homework Assignment: Homework assignments will not be collected, however, it is strongly suggested you keep pace with your homework assignments throughout the course. The lecture notes will emphasize corresponding homework problems. You should do those problems before the next lecture. You will notice that it will take 2-4 hours of study time per lecture hour in order to succeed in this course. The amount and depth of the material for this year’s course reflects the topics covered by the American Chemical Society Second Term General Chemistry Final.
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On your own review Chapter 10 |
Review of Molecular Geometry to section 10.2 |
Suggested Problems: 2-5, 7-9, 19, 23-30, 31, 33, 39, 51-59 odd, see also your Chem 111 Chapter 10 lecture notes. |
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Chapter 11 |
States of Matter Read Sections 1 - 7 |
Problems: 1, 3-7, 10-15, 37, 39, 45, 53-73 odd |
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Chapter 12 |
Solutions Read sections 1, 2, 4, 6 |
Problems: 1-5, 31, 33, 41-47 odd, 61 |
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Chapter 14 |
Rates of Chemical Reaction Read sections 1-5, 7-9 |
Problems: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 23-26, 31-59 odd, 69, 75, 76, 77, 79 |
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Chapter 15 |
Chemical Equilibrium |
Problems: 1-4, 13, 21-53 odd, 57-69 odd, 73 |
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Chapter 16 |
Acids and Bases Read sections 1, 2, 4-8. |
Problems: 1,4,5,10-13, 23, 25, 27, 37, 39, 43, 45, 47, 51, 55, 59, 61, 63 |
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Chapter 17 |
Acid-Base Equilibria Read sec. 1-7 |
Problems: 17.1-10, 17, 25, 27, 28, 31, 33-47 odd, 53, 55, 57, 61, 63, 67-77 odd |
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Chapter 19 |
Chemical Thermodynamics |
Problems: see the lecture notes |
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Chapter 20 |
Electrochemistry |
Problems: see the lecture notes |
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Chapter 21 |
Nuclear Chemistry |
Problems: see the lecture notes |
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Chapter 24 |
Organic Chemistry |
Problems: see the lecture notes |
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Chapter 25 |
Polymers |
Problems: see the lecture notes |