COURSE INFORMATION CHEM 124 and CHEM 125: College Chemistry Spring 2013 Instructor: Professor Ola Alawode Dr. A 6038 Malott 864-3113 Office hours: Monday 10 11AM & Tuesday 11-12 PM Ola-EA@ku.edu (appointment requests only) TA: e-mail: Class Meetings: Help sessions: Rachel Scheetz 6090 Malott; Office hours: 11-12 PM Monday & Wednesday rlschtz@gmail.com (appointment requests only) Chem124/125@ku.edu (for all general inquiries) Mon, Wed, Fri, 9:00-9:50 AM, 3140 Wescoe Monday, 4:00-4:50 PM, 2007 Malott Wednesday, 2:00-2:50 PM, 2007 Malott Required materials: Introduction to Chemistry, 3 rd ed., Bauer, Birks, & Marks ConnectPlus [Available with NEW textbook] or [ONLY access code, purchase online] non-programmable scientific calculator for exams and quizzes (examples include Casio FX-260, HP 300S) Additional materials required for CHEM 125 Only: Tripp, J.A., Laboratory Manual, Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry to Society, 7th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2011. ISBN 978-0-07-733448-2. Full coverage goggle Course website: http://courseware.ku.edu/ Other Resource: Supplemental Instruction (SI) Program provides learning and review session that will benefit student through peer-facilitated sessions. SI session will be available as additional resource to increase students understanding and comprehension of College chemistry. SI Leader(s): SI Sessions:
OBJECTIVES To develop an understanding of fundamental chemical principles and molecular structure and their application to organic and biological molecules. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course satisfies the Natural Science and Mathematics requirement in the physical sciences subcategory (NP) for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. This course is intended for students with no previous background in chemistry who need only one semester to of chemistry to satisfy degree requirements. It is also a useful preparatory course for CHEM 184. CHEM 124 Only: This course does not include a Lab and if you need a lab component with course you should enroll in CHEM 125. CHEM 125 Only: This course includes a lab and if do NOT need the lab, you should enroll in the lecture-only version of the course, CHEM 124. Students needing more than one semester of chemistry should take the CHEM 184/188 sequence (or the Honors versions of these courses). EVALUATION Exams (200 points each, 600 points total). Four exams will be given, all weighted equally. The first three will be given on Wednesdays from 5:45 PM to 7:45 PM in Budig 110. Wednesday, February 27 th Wednesday, March 27 th Wednesday, April 24 th A cumulative exam will be given during the scheduled final exam period on: Tuesday, May 14 th from 7:30 10am The lowest of the four exam scores will be automatically dropped when your final grade is calculated. Student satisfied with their scores on the first three exams may skip the last exam. Requests for alternative scheduling of exams will not be granted. Quizzes (20 points each, 140 points total). There will be online quizzes using the ConnectPlus online system on Wednesdays from 10:00 AM 12 midnight, as indicated on the attached tentative course schedule. You will have ONLY two attempts to complete each online quiz. The quizzes will be closely related to recent lecture material and online homework. Your lowest two quiz grades will be automatically dropped when your final grade is calculated. Homework (up to 60 points). Online homework assignments using the ConnectPlus system will be available from 12 pm Thursday and will be due 12 am Sunday. You will be allowed unlimited attempts to earn full credit (6 points) on each assignment. No extensions will be granted.
CHEM 125 Only: Labs (400 points total). Please see the lab syllabus for more information about labs and their evaluation. The following grading scale is anticipated: COURSE POLICIES 93-100% A 86-90% B+ 76-80% C+ 66-70% D+ 0-60% F 90-93% A 83-86% B 73-76% C 63-66% D 80-83% B 70-73% C 60-63% D Attendance: Attendance at lectures will not be recorded. Missed exams and quizzes: No requests for make-ups will be granted. Your single lowest exam score and your two lowest quiz scores will be dropped automatically when your final grade is calculated. The score drops enable you to miss ONE exam and TWO quizzes for any reason that you think is important. No explanation or documentation is required. You should reserve these opportunities for an illness or other serious matters. If absences cause you to exceed these limits, you may need to withdraw from the course. Re-grading: Requests for reconsideration of exam or quiz grades must be made within 21 days of the date of the exam or quiz. Identification: You will be required to present your KU-issued ID to a course instructor or teaching assistant when submitting your exam. No other forms of identification will be accepted. Electronic interruptions: In the event of major, wide-scale disruptions of electronic resources such as BlackBoard, deadlines may be extended or assignments may be cancelled or treated as optional. Benevolent dictator clause: The instructor is a benevolent dictator in this course and reserves the right to change the structure, the content, the criteria for evaluation, and the assignments for reasons that are in the best interest of student learning. Such changes will not be made capriciously. Any changes in schedule or structure of the course will be announced in class and on Blackboard. Withdrawals and Incompletes: You may withdraw from this course without evaluation through 11 February 2012 and with a grade of W until 22 April 2013. You may not withdraw from the course after 22 April 2013. Incompletes are granted at the discretion of the instructor and will be used only under exceptional circumstances. Under no circumstances will an incomplete enable a student to retake exams. Academic integrity: You are expected to maintain the highest standards of honesty and integrity in your work in this course. Behavior that deviates from these standards will be dealt with as laid out in the University Senate Rules and Regulations (Article II, Section 6, http://www2.ku.edu/~unigov/usrr.html). For the purposes of this course, academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to: providing or obtaining unauthorized information on an assignment or an exam; fabricating information; claiming the work of another as your own; sabotage; plagiarism; aiding or abetting the misconduct of others; and dishonesty. At the very minimum, you will receive a grade of zero on any work in which you violate these integrity standards. Violations may result in failure in the course and be reported to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The instructor reserves the right to retain copies of all submitted work. Evacuations during examinations: The KU Office of Public Safety and the Office of the University Registrar have developed a system to identify replacement classrooms in the event that evacuation is
necessary while an examination is in progress or is scheduled to be administered. examinations will not be canceled in the event of building evacuations. Scheduled Access to Education: The KU office of Disability Resources coordinates accommodations and services for all students who are eligible. If you have a disability for which you wish to request accommodations and have not contacted DR, please do so as soon as possible. Their office is located in 22 Strong Hall; their phone number is 785-864-2620 (V/TTY). Information about their services can be found at http://disability.ku.edu. You may also contact the instructor privately with regard to your needs in this course. Recording of lectures: Course materials prepared by the instructor, together with the content of all lectures and review sessions presented by the instructor, are the property of the instructor. Video and audio recording of lectures and review sessions without the consent of the instructor are prohibited. On request, the instructor will usually grant permission for students to make audio recordings of lectures, on the condition that such recordings are only used as a study aid by the individual student making the recording. Unless explicit permission is obtained from the instructor, such recordings may not be modified and must not be transferred or transmitted to any other person, whether or not that person is enrolled in the course. Privacy and tracking notice: Electronic resources used in this course, such as Blackboard, may automatically record student activities, including but not limited to: your first and last access to the course, number of times you have accessed the course, pages you have accessed, the number of discussion messages you have read and sent, posted discussion messages, and chat room text. This data may be accessed by the instructor.
TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE The exam dates listed on this schedule are definite. The sequencing of the topics represents a best guess for the flow of the course. Date Topic Chapters 23 Jan Course introduction 25 Jan Matter and energy 1 28 Jan Matter and energy 1 30 Jan Atomic theory and the periodic table Quiz 0 2 1 Feb Atomic theory and the periodic table 2 4 Feb Atomic theory and the periodic table 2 6 Feb Chemical compounds Quiz 1 3 8 Feb Chemical compounds 3 11 Feb Chemical compounds 3 13 Feb Electronic structure Quiz 2 7 15 Feb Electronic structure 7 18 Feb Electronic structure 7 20 Feb Electronic structure Quiz 3 7 22 Feb Chemical bonding 8 25 Feb Chemical bonding 8 27 Feb Chemical bonding Exam 1, 5:45 PM 8 1 Mar Chemical bonding 8 4 Mar Organic chemistry 16 6 Mar Organic chemistry Quiz 4 16 8 Mar Biochemistry 17 11 Mar Biochemistry 17 13 Mar Biochemistry Quiz 5 17 15 Mar Biochemistry 17 18-24 Mar Spring break 25 Mar Chemical composition 4 27 Mar Chemical composition Exam 2, 5:45 PM 4 29 Mar Chemical reactions 5 1 Apr Chemical reactions 5 3 Apr Chemical reactions Quiz 6 5 5 Apr Quantitative chemistry 6 8 Apr Quantitative chemistry 6 10 Apr Quantitative chemistry Quiz 7 6 12 Apr Acids and bases 13 15 Apr Acids and bases 13 17 Apr Acids and bases Quiz 8 13 19 Apr Acids and bases 13 22 Apr Oxidation-reduction reactions 14 24 Apr Oxidation-reduction reactions Exam 3, 5:45 PM 14 26 Apr Oxidation-reduction reactions 14 29 Apr Oxidation-reduction reactions 14 1 May Gases Quiz 9 9 3 May Gases 9 6 May Liquids and solids 10 8 May Liquids and solids Quiz 10 10 10 May Stop Day 14 May Exam 4, 7:30-10:00 AM comprehensive
Lab Instructor (TA): Instructor Contact Info.: Office Hours (day, time, & location): Lab Meeting Time and Section Number: Lab Meeting Room: 2027 Malott Hall Chemistry 125 Laboratory - Spring 2013 Course Web site: http://courseware.ku.edu Lab Director: Roderick Black, 2021 Malott, rsblack@ku.edu Safety: Find the safety regulations for laboratory courses on the following Web site: http://linus.chem.ku.edu/genchemlab/safety_regs.htm Review these regulations often. Chemistry Department-approved full-coverage goggles must be worn at all times. If a student is found not wearing goggles at any time while laboratory work is being conducted anywhere in the room, this student will receive a warning or a grade penalty, and may be asked to leave the room. Laboratory students must wear long pants. It is not acceptable to wear shorts of any kind, Capri pants or intermediate-length pants of any kind, or skirts. Shoes must cover the entire foot. Open-toed shoes, open-heeled shoes, sandals, or shoes containing holes are not acceptable. (If a student's attire fails to meet these guidelines because of religious or cultural requirements, the student must contact the instructor in advance of the lab period.) Attendance (5 points each week): You are expected to attend every lab session. There are no makeup labs. All unexcused absences will receive a grade of zero; only a documented physician s excuse, documented school-sponsored event, or documented death of a friend or family member are acceptable excuses. (Alternatively, if you miss lab due to an illness, you may send an e-mail note to Dr. Black at rsblack@ku.edu to explain the reason for your absence.) It is not possible to receive a passing grade in Chemistry 125 if you are absent from more than four lab periods, regardless of whether your absences are labeled excused or unexcused. Attendance will be taken at the beginning of each lab period. If you arrive after the lab has begun you will receive an attendance grade of zero. In lieu of attendance points, a 5-point quiz may be administered. To pass a quiz, you must read and understand the lab investigation scheduled for that lab period. The quiz may include questions pertaining to previous lectures and lab experiments. If you arrive late you will not be allowed to take the quiz. Students who arrive late might not be permitted to perform the lab experiment, resulting in a grade of zero for the laboratory manual pages. Lab Manual Pages or Report (25 points each week): Each person must bring to lab their own copy of the Laboratory Manual to Accompany Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry to Society, 7 th ed. (2012). You will complete the data sheets and answer the questions in your lab manual, according to the instructions from your TA. At the end of the lab period, the pages containing your data and answers should be removed carefully from the lab manual and given to your TA to be graded. Grading: The laboratory component of this course accounts for a portion of your final letter grade in Chemistry 125. Academic Honesty: There will be repercussions for any form of dishonesty. Plagiarism of a lab assignment, including any portion of the lab manual pages submitted to your TA, is not acceptable. Supplying any part of an assignment via online or offline databases (or via other repositories to which current or future Chemistry 184 students may have access) will be considered academic misconduct. Assignments submitted to your TA must be composed in Standard English using your own words. Assignments may not be copied from published or online sources of any sort, nor may they be copied from the work of any current or former student.
CHEM 125 College Chemistry: Spring 2013 Laboratory Schedule LAB Week of... Expt. No.* TITLE PAGE 1 Jan 28 3 Lab-Check-in; Can I Spot a Trend? A Graphic Experience 13 2 Feb 4 5 Visibly Delighted: How Do Colored Solutions Interact with Light? 3 Feb 11 1 What am I Breathing? Preparation and Properties of O 2 and CO 2 29 1 4 Feb 18 24 Why Do Plastics Get Sorted for Recycling? Properties of Common Plastics 5 Feb 25 6 What Does a Molecule Look Like? Bonds, Molecular Models, and Molecular Shapes 165 41 6 Mar 4 25 What Drugs are in an Analgesic Tablet? Identification by Thin-Layer Chromatography 171 7 Mar 11 26 How is Aspirin Made? 177 8 Mar 25 30 How Can We Isolate DNA? 211 9 Apr 1 8 Chemical Moles: Baking Soda to Table Salt How Do Chemical Equations Connect Compounds? 10 Apr 8 13 How Much Acid is in Food? Analysis of Vinegar 55 87 11 Apr 15 18 Which Common Materials are Acids or Bases? 127 12 Apr 22 17 Does Acid Reign? Reactions of Acids with Common Substances 119 - Apr 29 - Attend Chemistry 188 Water Quality Poster Sessions - - May 6 - Lab Clean-Up and Check-Out -