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Instructor:
Robley J. Light: Office: 204 DLC
Telephone: 644-3844
email: rlight@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
Class Hours:
You should attend the lecture and recitation
section for which you are registered.
Lecture: Sections 1-7 MWF 8:00-8:55 am, 275 FLH
Recitations (all in 219 HTL):
Section 1: Tues. 1:00-1:50 Ref# 08424
Section 2: Tues. 2:00-2:50 Ref# 08431
Section 3: Tues. 3:00-3:50 Ref# 08449
Section 4: Tues. 4:00-4:50 Ref# 08456
Section 5: Tues. 5:00-5:50 Ref# 08463
Section 6: Tues. 6:00-6:50 Ref# 08470
Section 7: Tues. 7:00-7:50 Ref# 08488
Lecture: Sections 8-15 MWF 12:20-1:10 pm, 255 FLH
Recitations (all in 213 HTL):
Section 8: Tues. 8:00-8:50 Ref# 08495
Section 9: Tues. 9:00-9:50 Ref# 08503
Section 10: Tues. 10:00-10:50 Ref# 08510
Section 11: Tues. 11:00-11:50 Ref# 08528
Section 12: Tues. 12:00-12:50 Ref# 08535
Section 13: Tues. 1:00-1:50 Ref# 08542
Section 14: Tues. 2:00-2:50 Ref# 08550
Section 15: Tues. 3:00-3:50 Ref# 08567
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Office Hours:
WF 9:15-10:15, MW 1:30-2:30 or by appointment. A schedule of
additional office hours of recitation and other instructors
will be handed out later.
Text:
Chemistry, The Central Science 7th Edition, by T. L. Brown,
H. E. LeMay, Jr., and B. E. Bursten; Prentice-Hall, 1997.
Experimenting with the Internet; A Guide for Chemistry
Students, by Thomas Gardner (This supplement was supposed to
have been supplied with the textbook, but the bookstore
ordered the wrong texts. A copy will be given out to all
students who have purchased the main textbook).
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Calculator:
A calculator capable of the operations 10x, ex, log x, and
ln x is required.
Prerequisite:
MAC 1102 with a grade of "C-" or higher or placement beyond
MAC 1102 on the FSU Math Department exam. Alternatively, a
SAT Mathematics score of 450 or an ACT Mathematics score of 21
and a Natural Sciences score of 24 combined with a high school
chemistry grade of "B" or better.
Corequisite:
CHM 1045L, unless you previously passed it. If you do not
attend the first lab meeting, you may be dropped from the
course!
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Audience:
This course is intended for science majors who will take
further chemistry courses. It will count for liberal studies
credit, but non-science majors desiring a single terminal
course in chemistry should consider CHM 1020 instead. CHM
1030 is an alternative shorter general chemistry course
leading to CHM 2200C, a one-semester organic chemistry course
intended for some majors such as nutrition and food science.
Students with credit in CHM 1020 or CHM 1030 who are switching
to a major requiring the main chemistry sequence may take CHM
1045 for reduced credit.
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Exams:
There will be three hour exams and a final exam. Note their
scheduled dates now, and plan your calendar accordingly.
Exam I Friday, February 7
Exam II Friday, March 7
Exam III Friday, April 11
Final Exam
Wednesday, April 23, 10:00-12:00 am
Note: This is a block exam time,
not the time for 8:00-8:55 MWF or
12:20-1:10 classes. The location of
the exam will be provided later.
Make-up exams will be available only in case of a legitimately
excused absence (sickness, death in family, university
business, etc.). In all cases but extreme emergencies, you
must notify me of the absence before the exam. All make-up
exams will be scheduled during the last class period, Friday,
April 18.
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Quizzes:
Take-home quizzes will be handed out on Wednesdays and due in
class on Fridays beginning with the second week of class.
They must be taken as a group activity, one quiz submitted and
graded for each group.
Recitation:
Attendance at recitation is highly recommended. This is an
opportunity to go over quizzes, review for tests, practice
working problems, and ask questions about things that are
confusing you. Part of your grade will be determined by your
active participation in the recitation sections.
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Study Groups:
You are to organize yourselves into groups of four or five
individuals. Try to group with individuals in the same
recitation section and with similar enough schedules that you
will have several blocks of time each week to get together
outside of class. All group members should attend the same
recitation. Sit together in class and in recitation, as there
will be some classroom activities you will be called on to
work together. You will work together on quizzes and submit
one quiz for the group. You should also meet together at
least once or twice a week to work problem sets and prepare
for tests.
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Homework:
Besides reading the chapters ahead, and organizing and
completing your notes after each lecture, you should practice
working some of the representative problems at the end of the
chapters. A good strategy would be to get together in your
study groups to work problems. Following is a suggested list
of problems to focus on, but if you have difficulty with a
particular type of problem, you should choose additional ones
to work. As you encounter difficulties, you should seek help
during office hours, from the help desk, from your recitation
instructor, or by email.
Chapter Suggested Problems
1 1.17-1.44
2 2.3-2.4, 2.13-2.20, 2.27-2.39,
2.43-2.46, 2.67-2.69
3 3.3-3.10, 3.15-3.22, 3.26-3.34,
3.41-3.48, 3.55-3.59, 3.65-3.70
4 4.5-4.12, 4.51-4.56
5 5.21-5.26, 5.33-5.38, 5.47-5.50, 5.56-5.62
6 6.5-6.10, 6.13-6.20, 6.25-6.30, 6.41-6.46,
6.53-6.56, 6.59-6.62, 6.67-6.70
7 7.13-7.24, 7.33-7.44
8 8.7-8.20, 8.23-8.28, 8.36-8.50, 8.53-8.54,
8.57-8.60, 8.63-8.70
9 9.1-9.16, 9.19-9.22, 9.33-9.40
10 10.5-10.8, 10.14, 10.16-10.32, 10.35-10.48,
10.57-10.62, 10.67-10.70
11 11.7-11.8, 11.13-11.16, 11.27-11.30,
11.39-11.40, 11.45-ll.47, ll.53-ll.55,
ll.61, 11.63, 11.65-11.66
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Optional
Group Problems:
There will be three optional, extra credit, group problems.
They must be completed by the group, not individually, and
only those members participating will get credit. Each
problem will be worth up to 6 points in extra credit.
Grading:
The course grade will be calculated on the basis of 655
points, distributed as follows:
Three hour exams*, 100 each 300 points
Nine quizzes, 10 each 90 points
Recitation participation, 5 each 65 points
Final exam* (100 x 2) 200 points
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Total 655 points
(Plus group problem extra credit, maximum of 18 points)
The course average is based on Total/655
* Final exam grade can also substitute for lowest test
grade.
Grading Scale:
A 90-100
B 80-89.9
C 70-79.9
D 60-69.9
F 0-59.9
(I will reserve the right to lower the cut-off line at
each grade level, and to give pluses or minuses near the
cut-off line, but the above scale represents the minimum
grade to expect.)
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Electronic Mail:
You will each be given an account on a campus computer which
can be used for electronic mail and for exploring the
Internet. I will use electronic mail to make class
announcements, reading and problem assignments, etc. Old
tests and quizzes will be accessible by internet, but not in
any other way. You can use electronic mail to ask me
questions about the material, indicate which things need more
explanation in class, communicate with your recitation
instructors, etc. This opportunity is not meant to replace
office hours, but to complement them. A newsgroup bulletin
board will be created to which I will post answers to
questions I feel are relevant for all the class. You can also
communicate with each other, schedule group meetings, etc.
through your email accounts.
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Class and Text Web Pages
You have probably heard of the World Wide Web, a recently
developed and rapidly expanding way of linking information on
computers around the world. A local class web page will be
developed which will contain the syllabus, copies of quizzes
and tests, and other class information as it becomes
available. There are also local web pages that include class
information from previous CHM 1045 classes taught by Dr. Light
and by other instructors. Some of Dr. Light's old tests and
quizzes are available from the previous class pages. You can
access the current and previous pages through Dr. Light's
Class Page Index via http://www.chem.fsu.edu/light and class
pages of other instructors through the chemistry department
web server via http://www.chem.fsu.edu/classp.htm.
This term we will be a test site for a web page that Prentice
Hall is developing to accompany the textbook. It will contain
material from the text, practice quizzes, current news
articles about chemistry, and many interesting things related
to chemistry. They have prepared a book to guide you in
learning how to cruise the web, not only for chemistry
information but for general information. The internet is a
powerful new resource in the information age, and one goal of
this class will be for you to learn how to use this resource.
Don't expect everything to work perfectly the first time,
though, as there are always glitches in newly developed
software. We hope you will use this resource to expand your
own horizons in chemistry, however, and that you will give
feedback to the developers of the page as to what "works" and
what doesn't in terms of making the subject matter clearer to
you.
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Study Hints:
Prepare for class and recitation. Read the book before
material is to be covered in class, and come prepared with
questions on things you don't understand. A large portion of
the course involves solving various problems. In addition to
the quizzes and recitation problem sets, some suggested
practice problems are listed in the course outline, and you
should try working these problems on your own or with others.
A solutions manual is available, and while it may tell you if
your answer is right, do not depend on it for the rote method
of solving the problem. Usually there is more than one way to
set up and solve chemistry problems, especially complex ones,
and understanding what you are doing and why is preferred to
memorizing steps. Some memorization will be necessary,
however, such as names and symbols of elements, and you should
undertake these tasks as they come up, not the night before a
test. Take good class notes, revise them after class to see
if there are points you don't understand, and develop a
content outline from the notes to serve as a study guide for
each exam. When you have trouble working a problem, after it
is explained try working another similar one from those at the
end of the chapter. Use the web to help clarify things for
you, but don't expect the computer to replace the need for old
fashioned studying!
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CHM 1045 -- Spring 1997 -- Dr. Light
Tentative Lecture Schedule
Date Chapter Topic Other
Jan 6 M 1 Class Organization; Introduction
Jan 8 W 1 Basic Concepts
Jan 10 F 2 Atoms, Molecules and Ions
Jan 13 M 2 "
Jan 15 W 2 " (Group Pr. 1)
Jan 17 F 3 Stoichiometry Quiz 1 due
Jan 20 M Martin Luther King Day, no class
Jan 22 W 3 Stoichiometry
Jan 24 F 3 " Quiz 2 due
Jan 27 M 3 "
Jan 29 W 4 Solution Stoichiometry
Jan 31 F 4 (Sections 4.1 and 4.7 only) Quiz 3 due
Feb 3 M 4 " (Group Pr. 1 due)
Feb 5 W 5 Energy and Thermochemistry
Feb 7 F EXAM I (Chapters 1-4)
Feb 10 M 5 Energy and Thermochemistry (Group Pr. 2)
Feb 12 W 5 "
Feb 14 F 5 " Quiz 4 due
Feb 17 M 6 Electronic Structure of Atoms
Feb 19 W 6 "
Feb 21 F 6 " Quiz 5 due
Feb 24 M 7 Periodic Properties of Elements
Feb 26 W 7 "
Feb 28 F 8 Concepts of Chemical Bonding Quiz 6 due
Mar 3 M 8 " (Group Pr. 2 due)
Mar 5 W 8 "
Mar 7 F EXAM II (Chapters 5-8(part))
Mar 10-14 Spring Break
Mar 17 M 8 Concepts of Chemical Bonding
Mar 19 W 8 "
Mar 21 F 9 Molecular Geometry Quiz 7 due
Mar 24 M 9 " (Group Pr. 3)
Mar 26 W 9 "
Mar 28 F 10 Gases Quiz 8 due
Mar 31 M 10 "
Apr 2 W 10 "
Apr 4 F 10 " Quiz 9 due
Apr 7 M 11 Intermolecular Forces
Apr 9 W 11 "
Apr 11 F EXAM III (Chapters 8-10)
Apr 14 M 11 Intermolecular Forces (Group Pr. 3 due)
Apr 16 W 11 "
Apr 18 F Review; Make-up Exams
Apr 23 W FINAL EXAMINATION, 10:00-12:00 am
(Note: This is a block exam time)
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