DAY DATE Lecture
FIRST HALF, TO SPRING BREAK
Tuesday, January 22 Spectroscopy/Greenhouse.1
Thursday, January 24 Spectroscopy/Greenhouse.2
Tuesday, January 29 Liquids and Solutions.1, Student submission of urls to TA.
Thursday, January 31 Liquids and Solutions.2
Tuesday, February 5 Liquids and Solutions.3
Thursday, February 7 WEB ASSIGNMENT 1. DISCUSSION (Greenhouse)
Tuesday, February 12 Liquids and Solutions.4
Thursday, February 14 Gas Phase Equilibrium.1
Tuesday, February 19 Gas Phase Equilibrium.2
Thursday, February 21 Gas Phase Equilibrium.3
Tuesday, February 26 EXAM 1
Thursday, February 28 Ionic Equilibrium.1
Tuesday, March 5 Ionic Equilibrium.2
Thursday, March 7 Ionic Equilibrium.3
Tuesday, March 12 Ionic Equilibrium.4
Thursday, March 14 Ionic Equilibrium.5
SPRING BREAK, SECOND HALF
Tuesday, March 26 EXAM 2
Thursday, March 28 WEB ASSIGNMENT 2. DISCUSSION (Silent Spring)
Tuesday, April 2 Thermodynamics.1
Thursday, April 4 Thermodynamics.2
Tuesday, April 9 Thermodynamics.3
Thursday, April 11 Thermodynamics.4
Tuesday, April 16 Kinetics.1
Thursday, April 18 Kinetics.2
Tuesday, April 23 Kinetics.3
Thursday, April 25 Exam 3
Tuesday, April 30 Special Topics.1
Thursday, May 2 Special Topics.2
Friday, May 10 FINAL EXAM
CHEMISTRY C1404.003
EXPERIMENTAL SECTION. Environmental General Chemistry
Professors Fine, McDermott and Venkataraman
LECTURES: Tuesdays and Thursdays: 1:10-2:25 P.M.
Room 209 (not 309) Havemeyer
Office hour: Tuesdays 2:30-4:00 P.M., or by appointment.
RECITATION SECTIONS: Monday at 4pm; Friday at 2pm.
The assistant in the course is Ms. Melissa Morlok mmm2005@columbia.edu
Her Office Hours are Thursdays from 3pm to 4pm.
Undergraduate Office: Room 318 Havemeyer. Phone 854-2163.
Ms. Socky Lugo is the Administrative Coordinator for Undergraduate programs.
Ms. Daisy Melendez is the Undergraduate Secretary.
This is the second term of the two-term introductory chemistry sequence. The first term is presumed as prerequisite and the permission of the instructor is required. Topics are similar to those taught in Chemistry c1404.001/002 but with a more developed bias toward environmental chemistry, issues and policy, including an introduction to spectroscopy and greenhouse gases; liquids, solutions, and changes of state; the properties of water, methane and carbon dioxide; gas phase equilibria and atmospheric ozone chemistry; equilibria in aqueous solutions, especially acids and bases and the solubility of sparingly soluble salts, especially carbonate equilibria; energy and the laws of thermodynamics; oxidation-reduction and electrochemistry; and chemical dynamics with an introduction to reaction mechanisms. Materials correspond to Chapters 9-15,special topics, and other text materials appropriate to the lectures and recitations as may be assigned.
REQUIRED text for the course: Fine, Beall, and Stuehr (FBS): Chemistry for Scientists and Engineers. Preliminary (paperback) Edition, Saunders College Publishing (Philadelphia, 1999). Detailed answers to the odd-numbered problems in FBS text can be found in the Student Solutions Manual. Copies are available from the Columbia University Bookstore and are on reserve in the Chemistry Department Library, 4th Floor of Chandler.
Everyone is expected to read the 1994 paperback reissue of Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, Albert Gore.
Homework Assignments are given at the discretion of the recitation instructors. Homework problems are often typical of problems on exams.
Recitation sections provide a smaller setting for discussion of concepts, problems, and other aspects of the course, including materials that may have been incompletely covered in lecture or were not covered at all. Recitations meet once a week, either on Monday afternoon at 4:00 P.M., or on Friday afternoon at 2:00 P.M.. You must select one or the other. Enrollment in each is limited to 15 (or half the classs size). Attendance is not taken in lecture or recitation but your full participation is expected.
CHEMWrite list:
1) Vaclav Smail: Enriching the Earth - Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food.
2) Christian Warren: Brush with Death – A Social History of Lead Poisoning.
3) Linda Lear: Rachel Carson-Witness for Nature
4) Kenneth Deffeyes: Hubbert’s Peak-The Impending World Oil Shortage
Examinations, web assignments, and CHEMWrite are valued as follows:
Lowest Exam 12%
Middle Exam 16%
Highest Exam 20%
Web Assignments 8%
Final Exam 28%
CHEMWrite 16%
There are no makeup examinations for any reason. If you are forced to miss an exam for just cause (such as illness or personal problems beyond your control), then let us know as soon as possible. The usual consideration in such situations is to prorate the other two exams at values of 20% (lowest) and 24% (highest), and 32% (Final).
There is a penalty for late submission of the WEB ASSIGNMENTS.
Consult the course web site for the latest information, updates, and answers to questions.
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/chemistry/environmental/
Course Bulletin Board / Newsgroup: at the following URL: https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/bboard/003/chem1404-001/
Use the public bulletin board as a forum for the discussion of issues and questions relating to the course. Questions of an administrative or academic nature may be posted (i.e., homework, exam questions, Chemwrite).
Course Email: need address……….
Questions can be sent to this email privately. Administrative / web site-related questions only, please.