Professor Jack I. Morrow
General Information, Syllabus, & Problems
Chem F 14O3 - F 14O4 2001/2OO2
academic year
Required Text: OXTOBY, NACHTREIB, AND FREEMAN
“Chemistry - Science of change” 3rd edition
"
Student Solutions Manual" (can be purchased in bookstore)
"
Instructor's Manual" (can be viewed in Chemistry library)
Helpful
Suggestions:
1) Pre-read the
chapters to be discussed at least one week ahead of their coverage in
lecture. This will introduce you
to the terminology used and the concepts to be discussed. If you have done the above, then take lecture notes, only on what is not
covered in the book and on topics that clarify points presented in the book. Try to avoid voluminous note taking,
but rather, limit them to the more pertinent and/or more conceptually difficult
points of the text. In this way
you might succeed in hearing the lecture.
2) Go over the
topics covered in lecture as soon as possible to consolidate the information
and concepts as quickly as possible.
Delay in doing this will only lead to loss of knowledge and especially
loss of some of the more subtle points.
In addition, concepts that are still not clear can be questioned in the
next lecture or recitation section.
3) Do the assigned
problems from the Oxtoby text, as soon as possible. Remember if you cannot do the problems you don't understand
the concepts. If you have
difficulty doing one or more problem(s) come for help immediately, to either
the recitation TA or to me. In
coming for help, bring us the uncompleted work you have already done on the
problem. This will make it much
easier to determine exactly where you are having difficulty.
4) You will find it
helpful to form small study groups with three to five of your fellow students
to review the homework. If you do
this, take turns explaining how you arrived at an answer to a particular
problem. If you have difficulty
explaining your procedure, you don't understand it as well as you thought you
did!
5) Save all exam
papers until course is over in case any questions arise concerning grades.
LECTURES:
The
lectures are designed to amplify and supplement the contents of your
textbook. I will minimize
re-stating what you can read in any assigned or suggested reference book. Taken together, text and lecture notes,
you have the collected information and ideas that you are responsible for.
Copies of old exams are on file in the Chemistry Library. There are
approximately 27 exams from bothe terms of General Chemistry. Of these exams,
about 2/3 are the answer keys, and the other 1/3 the exams without the answers.
The latter would be useful to practice on.
The LECTURES are every monday and wednesday from 6:O5
PM to 7:25 PM.
RECITATIONS
(given by the TA) will be held twice weekly. If possible, one recitation will
precede the lecture and the other recitation will follow the lecture. The
recitation hours will be set during the first week of the course. All homework
assignments (see section on Homework/assignments) will be handed in to the TA.
F14O3:
Sept. 5-Dec. 17
EXAMS: There
will be three full period midterm examinations, and a cumulative final exam.
All exams will be given in the lecture hall, 3O9 H.
First
Exam: October 3 (wednesday) from 6 PM to 7:3O PM
Second
Exam: November 7 (wednesday) from
6 PM to 7:3O PM
Third
Exam: December 5 (wednesday) from
6 PM to 7:3O PM
Final
Exam: December 17 (monday) from 7
PM to 1O PM
Academic
Holiday: November 5 (Monday)
F14O4: Jan. 23-May 13
EXAMS: As
with the first term, there will be three midterm examinations and a cumulative
final examination.
First
Exam: February 13 (wednesday) from 6 PM to 7:3O PM
Second
Exam: March 27 (wednesday) from 6
PM to 7:3O PM
Third
Exam: April 24(wednesday) from 6
PM to 7:3O PM
Final
Exam: May 13 (monday) from 7 PM to
1O PM
Spring
Break: March 18 (Monday) - March 22 (Friday)
Grades:
There are three (3) midterm exams. The will count
equally and will constitute 50 % of your final grade. Your final exam is the
remaining 50 %.
THERE
ARE NO MAKE-UPS FOR MID-TERM CLASS EXAMS
Regrade
Policy:
Exams
are group-graded and returned as soon as possible, though not necessarily the
class period following the exam.
Exams are generally returned to you in lecture. The answer key is posted
on the bulletin board across the hall to the right side of 318 H. As occasionally happens, mistakes are
made in grading; regrading of the period exams will be allowed according to the
following guidelines:
1. Clerical,
addition, or numerical errors will be rechecked on your personal request.
2. Requests for regrading for any other
reason may result in regrading the entire examination so please be careful and
thoughtful, and do not request a regrade for trivial reasons.
3. If you do decide to hand in your paper
for a regrade, be sure no alterations in the original answers or grading
remarks have been made so we can properly determine what was originally written
and how it was graded. On rare
occasions, students have tried to bend the regrade privilege by altering
history in their favor. To
discourage that practice and maintain the regrade privilege for the benefit of
the vast majority of the class, a random sample of the exams are xerox-copied
before they are returned.
4. All regrade requests pass directly to
the appropriate box labeled "REGRADES" located outside Socky Lugo's
office, 318 Havemeyer, and then back to the original graders for review at
their next regular grading session.
5. These is a statute of
limitations: The first exam
regrade requests will be honored up to the morning of the second exam, after
which the first exam will no longer be subject for discussion for any reason. For the second exam, it is the morning
of the final exam.
6. If you wish to submit an exam for a
regrade, you must make a duplicate copy prior to handing it in. The merits of regrade requests are
judged when the regraders reconvene to grade each subsequent exam.
DO NOT FORGET TO MAKE A XEROX COPY OF YOUR EXAM AND SUBMIT THE ORIGINAL WITH THE REGRADE FORM.
Homework / Assignments:
Homework problems
are suggested along with the textbook section assignments given in class. Homework should be done in duplicate AND
ONE COPY GIVEN TO THE TA. If you have faithfully handed in your
homework, it may help you obtain a higher grade if you are JUST below the cutoff point for that grade.
Office Hours:
My Havemeyer mail
code, #3122, is located outside the Chemistry Departmental Office, Room 344 on
the main floor. My phone is
854-8893 (if on campus call 48893) and my office is 863 Chandler. I will
usually be in my office from 3 till 6 PM on mondays and wednesdays to answer
your questions.
If you have
difficulty contacting me, a message can be left with either Daisy or Socky in
the Undergraduate Office, 318 H. Their phone number is 854-2163 (on campus call
42163).
General Information, Syllabus, & Problems
Suggested Alternative / Additional Texts
You
may wish to consult alternate text sources to provide expanded discussions, a
different point of view or another way of expressing the same ideas. Here are a few suggestions drawn from
texts previously used in this course.
All are on reserve in the library, along with many others not mentioned.
- Fine and Beall, CHEMISTRY FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS
- Mahan, COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY
CHEMISTRY, Addison-Wesley
- Dickerson, Gray &
Hight, CHEMICAL PRINCIPLES, 3rd edition, Benjamin, (1979).
- Brown & LeMay,
CHEMISTRY. THE CENTRAL SCIENCE,
Prentice-Hall,
2nd edition (1980)
- Segal, General Chemistry
All are very good. My choice is the Dickerson text for its
intermediate use of mathematics and general level of rigor. The more taxing text (Mahan) may
provide your best test of developing skills and knowledge, and the Brown text,
your best support if you are having problems (along with the paperbacks
below). But any alternative text
you might choose should be the one you are comfortable with and that can do you
some good.
PAPERBACKS
- Butler & Brosser,
RELEVANT PROBLEMS
- Willis, CHEMICAL PROBLEMS
- Sienko, CHEMISTRY PROBLEMS
- Rosenberg, SHAUM'S OUTLINE
OF COLLEGE CHEMISTRY
Chemistry F 14O3
Chapter
/Topic
1 Atomic
Nature of Matter
2 Chemical
Equations and Reaction Yields
3 Chemical
Periodicity
4 Types of Chemical
Reactions
First
Exam
____________________________________________________________
5 Gaseous State
6 Condensed
Phases and Phase Transitions
7 Chemical
Equilibria
Second
Exam
____________________________________________________________
1O Thermochemistry
11 Spontaneous change and
equilibrium
12 Redox reactions and
Electrochemistry
Third
Exam
____________________________________________________________
13 Electrochemistry and
Cell Voltage (If time does not permit,
the
second term, Chem 1404, will start with chapter 13.)
F 14O3 Homework
Chapter/Problems
1 13,15,17,2O,22,23,24,27,29,41,42,5O,51,54,57,58,7O,71,74
2 4,8,9,13,14,2O,22,26,27,32,39,4O,42,43,45,46,47,48,51,56,
58,62, 64,65,67,7O, 72,74,75,77,79,98,99
3 11,13,17,18,23,24,25,26,31,33,37,39,4O,45,52,54,55,6O,62,
66,67, 68,69,72,75,76,77,78,1OO
4 7,12,14,18,21,25,26,29,3O,33,35,40,45,47,5O,53,57,68,7O,
71,75,76,83,84,86,95,1O8
87,88,91
6 13, 15, 17, 19, 27 31, 35, 39, 41, 47, 49, 53, 59, 7O, 72, 85
7 1,5,7,9,11,13,17,19,23,25,27,31,37,41,45,47,53,57,63,67,
72,74,77
1O 7, 13,15,19,21,29,31,33,39,45,47,51,53,57,59,61,65,7O,75
11 7,9,11,13,19,25,27,31,35,37,43,45,49,53,57,61,63,74,77,
84,89
12 3,7,11,13,15,25,27,29,39,41,43,45,47
13 3,5,11,13,23,29,33,37,39,41,47,49,69,7O
Chemistry F 14O4
Chapter /Topic
8 Acid-base
Equilibria
9 Dissolution
and precipitation
16 Quantum
Mechanics and the Hydrogen Atom
First
Exam
____________________________________________________________
17 Many-Electron
Atoms and Chemical Bonding
18 Molecular
Orbitals and Spectroscopy
2O Structure in solids
Second Exam
____________________________________________________________
19 Coordination
complexes
14 Chemical
Kinetics
Third Exam
____________________________________________________________
24 From Petroleum to
Pharmaceuticals (Organic Chemistry)
F 14O4 Homework
Chapter/Problems
8 1,3,5,7,9,15,27,29,37,45,47,53,55,59,63,65,67,71,76,83,95
9 1,9,11,15,17,21,23,27,31,35,41,43,47,49,51,53,57,63,68,73
14 7,9,15,17,21,23,25,27,29,31,35,37,39,41,43,45,49,51,55,6O
72
16 9,1O,11,15,16,19,2O,22,25,31,33,34,36,37,38,45,47,48,5O,54,
56,61,62
17 6,9,1O,11,13,18,23,24,27,28,3O,31,33,34,35,39,44,45,47,
49,54,6O
18 7,8,13,15,16,21,23,24,31,33,34,39,4O,43,44,45,53,57,65
2O 9,11,13,15,17,19,2O,21,25,27,29,31,39 and 52
19 1,2,5,9,11,16,17,23,25,27,31,35,37,39 and 46
24 7,8,9,1O,11,12,13,14,25,26,34,37