Calendar Desciption: Principles of chemistry with a series of modules on thermodynamics, electrochemistry, kinetics of chemical reactions, and aqueous equilibria including acids and bases, solubility, and co-ordination chemistry.

For Winter 2000:
Lecture Hours and Location: Tuesday and Thursday 10:00 - 11:20 in CRSC 101 (Crop Science)
Laboratory Hours and Location: Tuesday, 2:30 - 5:20, C&M 159

Required Materials:
Textbook: "Chemistry: Science of Change", 3rd Edition, Oxtoby, Freeman, and Block, Saunders College Publishing (1998).

Laboratory Manuals: We are using the labs taken from the CHEM*1040 and CHEM*1050 courses. Purchase a lab manual for CHEM*1050. The department sells these directly in room C&M 034 (It is in the basement just across the hall from my lab.) The department only sells these during the first three days or so of the first week. Get there early. During your lab period, you will receive a used CHEM*1040 lab manual free.

Safety Goggles: You must have a pair of these. They are available at the University Bookstore.

The Laboratory: The lab is an essential component of the course. If less than 70% of the lab is completed, no grade will be assigned for the course. The labs will start on Tuesday, January 11, 2000 at 2:30 in Room C&M 159. There will be a check-in and a mandatory session on laboratory safety. Lab reports are due one week after the lab. Submit the report to the demonstrator at the beginning of the next laboratory period. Everyone else is able to get the report in on time. Come on. Please no delays. If you get right on it, you can always do it. There will be a quiz associated with most of the labs. Come prepared for it at the beginning by reading the lab manual and answering the questions.

Winter Break: There are, of course, no lectures or labs during the Winter Break Week of February 21-27.

Examinations and Grades: The course grade will be calculated as follows:

Web Quizzes (10)

Mid-Term

Final Exam

Laboratory

20%

25%

30%

25%

The Final Exam is to be scheduled later. During the first week of classes, we will schedule an evening during the first week of March for a 2 hour mid-term exam.

Course Material

Here is an overview of the material that we will be covering in the course, presented in the correct sequence. The corresponding chapters in the textbook are also indicated.

1. Review: Atomic Theory of Matter. Mass, Volume, and Density (Chapter 1). Chemical Formulae, Composition (Chapter 2).

2. Review: Chemical Equations. Balancing and Stoichiometry, Limiting Reactant, Percentage Yield, Scale of Reaction. (Chapter 2).

3. Fundamental Chemical Reactions. Solvation, Precipitation, Acid-Base reactions, Oxidation-Reduction reactions. Solution concentration and titrations. (Chapter 4).

4. Chemical Equilibrium: Equilibrium constants, reaction quotient, Le Châtelier's Principle, reaction equilibria. (Chapter 7).

5. Acid-Base Equilibria: Water, pH scale, Acid/Base strengths, Equilibria, buffers, titrations, polyprotic acids (Chapter 8). (3 quizzes on this section).

6. Thermochemistry: Calorimetry, Enthalpy, First Law of Thermodynamics (Chapter 10).

7. Equilibrium Thermodynamics: Enthalpy, Entropy, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Gibbs Function, Temperature dependence of Equilibrium constants (Chapter 11).

8. Redox Equilibria: Redox reactions, electrochemical cells, Faraday's Laws, Electrometallurgy (Chapter 12).

9. Electrochemistry: Cell voltage, Oxidizing/Reducing Agents, Equilibrium Constants, Batteries, Fuel Cells (Chapter 13).

10. Organic Chemistry: Nomenclature (Chapter 24).

One Web quiz will deal with the first three topics. One Web quiz will be on each of the subsequent topics except for #5 which will have three separate quizzes itself. This will give a total of 10 Web quizzes.

Suggested Problems from Textbook

All problems at the end of the pertinent chapters are useful and will build your problem solving skills. Here are some suggestions to give a basic grounding in all concepts.

Chapter 1: 13, 15, 19, 23, 27, 39, 41, 43, 47, 55, 57, 59, 61, 65, 69, 71, 80, 87, 89, 91, 93, 95.

Chapter 2: 5, 7, 15, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, 43, 47, 51, 55, 59, 63, 65, 67, 69, 73, 77, 91, 95, 101, 110, 115.

Chapter 4: 5, 7, 11, 17, 25, 27, 33, 37, 45, 49, 59, 65, 71, 75, 83, 93, 98, 99.

Chapter 7: 1, 3, 7, 11, 15, 17, 19, 23, 27, 31, 37, 39, 41, 47, 55, 57, 61, 67, 71, 77, 83.

Chapter 8: 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 17, 21, 27, 33, 39, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 55, 59, 63, 65, 67, 75, 84, 91, 95.

Chapter 10: 3, 5, 13, 15, 19, 23, 29, 31, 35, 37, 43, 47, 55, 61, 65, 67, 74, 83.

Chapter 11: 7, 9, 11, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 34, 37, 41, 43, 49, 51, 59, 63, 71, 78, 88, 94.

Chapter 12: 7, 11, 13, 15, 23, 25, 27, 31, 32, 33, 39, 43, 47, 53, 62, 65, 69, 79.

Chapter 13: 3, 5, 9, 13, 15, 19, 25, 27, 33, 37, 41, 47, 55, 57, 66, 74, 75.

Chapter 24: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 17, 23, 25, 34, 37, 40.

Last update: 4 January 2000
Comments to: Dan Thomas