Syllabus
| Instructor: |
Dr. G. Brooks
Avery |
| Office: |
DO-242A |
| Office Hours: |
TBA |
| Office Phone: |
962-7388 |
| Lecture: |
T-TH 2:00-3:15 in DO-202
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| Lab: |
Consult your schedule for your lab meeting time and
location |
Course Description:
CHM-102 (4 cr. hr.): General Chemistry is the second semester of
a two-semester sequence that surveys important topics in chemistry.
It is designed to provide an overview of the subject and is a
prerequisite or corequisite for all upper-level chemistry courses.
Along with the lecture, there is a laboratory that meets for three
hours each week. The laboratory provides hands-on experience with
chemical concepts and demonstrates important laboratory techniques used by
chemists.
Although attendance will not be regularly taken in lecture, it is
expected that you will attend all lectures, take all exams, and complete
all other assignments. Students who miss lecture should consult with other
class members to obtain notes, or review the material posted on the WWW.
You must attend your scheduled lab each week. There
are no make-up labs. If you miss a lab, you will receive a score of
0 for that day. At the end of the semester, your lowest lab grade will be
dropped. Students who miss more than four laboratory
sessions will receive a grade of "F" for CHM-102. No
one will be admitted to lab after the first 10 minutes or without a lab
manual or safety glasses. If you arrive more than 10 minutes late,
or you do not have both your lab manual and safety glasses, you will be
counted absent for that day.
Grading Policy:
Your grade in this course is based on your performance on the following
items:
Hourly exams (there will be three of them): 50%
Final exam: 20%
Laboratory work (including two lab practical exams): 15%
Quizzes (four quizzes given in lab): 15%
Your lowest quiz score and your lowest lab score (not including the
lab practical exams) will be dropped. At the instructor's
discretion, additional graded material may be assigned during the
semester.
Performance on exams and quizzes is measured through the use of T-scores which are based on the mean and standard deviation for each exam
and, in the case of quizzes, on the sum of your raw quiz scores.
T-scores are computed according to the formula shown below.
Labs are graded on a percentage basis. At the end of the
semester, your overall lab average will be converted to a T-score
equivalent based on the following table.
| Lab
Percent |
T-score
Equivalent |
Lab
Percent |
T-score
Equivalent |
| 96 - 100 |
64 |
60 - 64.9 |
42 |
| 92 - 95.9 |
62 |
55 - 59.9 |
39 |
| 89 - 91.9 |
60 |
50 - 54.9 |
36 |
| 85 - 88.9 |
58 |
45 - 49.9 |
32 |
| 80 - 84.9 |
55 |
40 - 44.9 |
28 |
| 75 - 79.9 |
51 |
35 - 39.9 |
24 |
| 70 - 74.9 |
47 |
30 - 34.9 |
20 |
| 65 - 69.9 |
45 |
below 30 |
10 |
The final exam: Do not buy a ticket home until after (December
10th 3:00-6:00). The final exam will be cumulative, consisting of four 18-question
sections. Questions from the material covered after Exam 3
(questions 55-72) will count as 1/2 the final exam grade.
Questions from the material covered in previous exams will count for the
remainder of the final exam grade. The first three 18-question sections
will represent material covered on the previous hourly exams (questions 1
-18, Exam 1; questions 19-36, Exam 2; questions 37-54, Exam 3). If your
T-scores for any of these sections are higher than the T-scores you earned
on the corresponding hourly exams during the semester, your previous
T-scores will be replaced with the higher ones. (We refer to this as exam
replacement.) This gives you the opportunity to improve any low scores you
made on any of the three hourly exams. However, exam replacement is
only allowed if your overall T-score for the final exam is 42 or greater.
If one or more hourly exams are missed during the semester, the T-score
earned on the corresponding section of the final exam will be used for
that grade. You must inform your instructor by e-mail if you will
have to miss a test.
Your final letter grade in this course will be assigned on the
following basis:
| Grade |
T-Score |
| A |
=> 62 |
| B+ |
60 - 61.99 |
| B |
57 - 59.99 |
| B- |
55 - 56.99 |
| C+ |
52 - 54.99 |
| C |
49 - 51.99 |
| C- |
47 - 48.99 |
| D |
42 - 46.99 |
| F |
< 42 |
Textbook and Other Materials:
The textbook for this course is Chemistry: The Central
Science, 11th Edition by Brown, LeMay, and Bursten . The textbook is supplied as a package
that includes a solutions manual, a math study guide, and a
media package (CD-ROM and Web access). The laboratory manual
for this course is Chemistry: 101/102 Laboratory Manual
by Kieber, Kieber, and Ward, 3nd Ed. . You
must buy your own approved safety glasses. You will not be
admitted to lab without your lab manual and safety glasses.
Chapter Sections Covered:
Chapter 9: 9.1-9.6; Chapter 10: all; Chapter 11: all; Chapter
13: all; Chapter 14: all (omit information on pages 589-592
dealing with second-order reactions and on pages 605-607 dealing
with mechanisms in which the first step is fast); Chapter 15:
all (omit subsection on Kp in section 15.2); Chapter
16: all; Chapter 17: 17.1-17.5; Chapter 20: 20.1-20.5, 20.9.
Additional material may be covered at the instructor's
discretion and will be announced in class. Check the course
Web site on a regular basis for changes in coverage and homework
questions.
Homework Questions:
- Chapter 9: 12, 14,
16,18,19,21,22,31,34,35,36, 43, 50, 53
- Chapter 10:
10, 15, 21, 23, 26, 27, 33,
41, 43, 45, 51, 63, 69, 74, 76, 81(a,b)
- Chapter 11:
14, 15, 17, 22, 25, 29, 31, 34, 39, 41, 43, 45, 53, 54, 59,
60, 61, 62(a), 71, 75, 77
- Chapter 13:
13, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 41, 45(a,b), 52, 56,
62(a,b), 63(a,b)
- Chapter 14:
11, 13, 15, 17, 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 33, 37, 41, 43, 50, 61,
69, 76
- Chapter 15:
2, 13, 15, 28, 32, 35, 41, 50, 51, 52, 56, 59, 69, 77, 83
- Chapter 16:
15, 21, 26, 29, 37, 41, 43, 51, 53, 58, 61, 74, 79, 83, 85,
94, 101
- Chapter 17:
15, 17, 23, 25, 27, 28, 35, 37, 45, 49, 52
- Chapter 20:
13, 19, 23, 35, 41, 47, 84, 85, 86
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