(©2010, François G. Amar, All rights reserved)
January 11 - May 7, 2010
Meeting time: TTh 12:30-1:45 PM Meeting place: 140 Little Hall
Instructor: Dr. François G. Amar
Office: 253 Aubert Hall
Telephone: 581-1196
e-mail: francois_amar@umit.maine.edu (FirstClass) or amar@maine.edu
Office hours: T 9:30 to 10:30AM&Th from 10 to 11 AM; W from 1 to 2 PM or by appointment.
Peer Led Team Learning Groups will meet for this section on
Thursdays from 6 to 8 PM in Aubert Hall
Text: Chemistry, by Julia Burdge
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1/12 1/14 |
From real gases to liquids Liquids & solids; crystal structure |
12.1-12.2 12.3-12.4 |
HW#1 Due 1/17 |
organize for next week |
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1/19 1/21 |
Kinds of solids Phase changes & phase diagrams(Q1) |
12.4,12.5 12.6,12.7 |
HW#2 Due 1/27 |
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1/26 1/28 |
Solutions Solubility & colligative properties |
13.1-13.3 13.4-13.6 |
HW#3 Due 2/3 |
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2/2 2/4 |
Chemical Kinetics; Concentration vs. time Rate laws & mechanisms(Q2) |
14.1,14.2 14.3,14.5 |
HW#4 Due 2/10 |
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2/9 2/11 |
Nuclear decay reactions are1st Order reactions Reaction rate & temperature; catalysis |
20.1-20.3 14.4,14.6 |
HW#5 Due 2/17 |
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2/16 2/18 |
Chemical Equilibrium Heterogeneous equilibria; eq. constant calculations |
15.1 15.1-15.3 |
HW#6 Due 2/24 |
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2/23 2/25 |
Applications of Equilibrium constants (Q3) LeChatelier's principle |
15.4-15.5 15.6 |
HW#7 Due 3/17 |
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3/1 to 3/13 |
Spring Recess |
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3/16 3/18 |
Bronsted acids; strong acids & bases; pH Weak acids & bases |
16.1-16.4 16.5-16.8 |
HW#8 Due 3/24 |
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3/23 3/25 |
Chapter 16 Chapter 17 |
16.9-16.12 17.1-17.2 |
HW#9 Due 3/31 |
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3/30 4/1 |
Chapter 17 Chapter 17 |
17.1-17.3 17.4-17.6 |
HW#10 Due 4/7 |
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4/6 4/8 |
Chapter 18 Chapter 18 (Q4) |
18.1-18.3 18.4-18.6 |
HW#11 Due 4/14 |
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4/13 4/15 |
Chapter 18 Chapter 18 |
19.5-19.8 |
HW#12 Due 4/21 |
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4/20 4/22 |
Chapter 19 Chapter 19 |
19.1-19.2 19.3-19.4 |
HW#13 Due 4/28 |
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4/27 4/29 |
Chapter 19 Chemistry of vision |
19.5-19.6 |
HW#14 Due 5/4 |
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Finals Week |
Tuesday,5/4 |
Time Slot B1: 8AM-10AM |
428 Aubert |
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COURSE RULES: Attendance is expected at all lectures and review sessions. Please observe rules of common courtesy in lecture. If you arrive late for a class, please do not cross front of the lecture hall. Cell phones and laptops must be turned off and stowed during class. Exams will be given during recitation time, Thursday evenings. Quizzes will be given during the class period. A calculator can be used during exams and quizzes but no cell-phone calculators may be used. There are no make-ups of exams or quizzes. Help session times will be announced (usually the Sunday evening before a prelim).
GRADING POLICY: The class will be graded on the basis of 600 total points.
The 3 prelims will be worth 300 points of the total grade.
Quizzes and in-class work will count for 75 points.(I will drop the lowest quiz)
On-line homework will count for 50 points.
Attendance at PLTL sessions will count for 50 points
The final exam will count for 125 points of the grade.
The final exam will be based partly on the final 2 weeks of the course (50 pts) and partly cumulative over the previous material (25 pts per prelim section). It will be very much to your advantage to review material that you missed on prelims since questions based on the earlier part of the course will be scored so that if you do better on that portion of the final than you did on the corresponding prelim, you will be able to recover missed points. Example: Jane Godolyenko gets 70% on the first prelim and gets 23 out of 25 points (92%) on the first section of the final; she will have half of the difference in percentage points added back to her original prelim score, getting a net of 81% on the first prelim.
Success in this course depends upon doing the problems conscientiously.
Help session times will be announced.
Exams consist of about half multiple choice questions and half problems similar to homeworks.
Quizzes will usually consist of multiple choice and short answer questions.
WEEKLY SUMMARIES of lecture material and homework assignments will be available on the WEB at http://chemistry.umeche.maine.edu/~amar/spring2010/syllabus.html
The syllabus is intended as an overall guide and may be subject to change during the semester. See weekly summary pages for updated assignment information.
COMPUTER CONFERENCE: I will be using the FirstClass conference system to contact you with urgent class information. This information will be found in the form of messages posted to the CHY122(Amar) folder on FirstClass. The full hierarchy of relevant folders is:
Desktop:Academics:Semester Courses:Spring Courses:CHY 122(Amar) Move this ICON to your FirstClass Desktop so that it will appear each time you logon to FirstClass.
The folder Chy122(AMAR) can also be used to send me questions that other students can read along with my response. Students can also have a public dialogue in that conference. Trainings will be be available. I will also be setting up some private discussion areas for members of PLTL groups and lab work-groups. If you have questions that require a private reading and response, please send e-mail to my FirstClass account rather than the public conference.
If you wish to request an accommodation for a disability, please contact either your instructor or Ann Smith, Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities (Onward Building, 1-2319) as early as possible in the semester.