Chemistry 112:
General Chemistry II
Office
hours
My official office hours
are Wednesdays and Thursdays 2:00-5:00.
I will be happy to arrange
for a different time to meet with you. To do that you may send me an email, leave
me a telephone message, or stop by my office and leave me a note if I am not
there.
Office
Parker 230; email zpasman@ic.edu, phone 217-245-3435.
Textbook
Chemistry,
The Molecular Science, 2nd edition, by JW Moore, CL Stanitski, and PC Jurs.
Lecture
notes.
The
lecture notes will be available on the web at the chem112 area at
http://www2.ic.edu/pasman/. The
lecture notes will be provided as .pdf files.
Assignments
Homework. Problems pertaining to the material in
each chapter will be assigned regularly.
Answers to the homework problems must be submitted online at
http://www.webassign.net. Each
student must purchase an access code (at the IC bookstore or online at
http://www.webassign.net). The
material on the exams, to a large extent, will be based on homework questions.
Exams. There will be four in-class exams
(dates indicated on the syllabus).
In addition, there will be one final cumulative exam during the finals
period.
Grading
(percent of final grade)
Homework 25
Lab 20
Exams 40
Final exam 15
Grades
will assigned as follows:
90-100% A
80-89% B
70-79% C
60-69% D
50-59% F
I do not
anticipate using a curve, but I will do so if necessary.
Attendance
You are
expected to attend regularly and participate in class discussions. From time to time there will be
in-class assignments which you will hand in, and this will count towards your
participation credit, which can help push your grade upwards. Material on the homework and exams will
be drawn heavily from the material covered in class.
In
contrast to the lectures, lab attendance is mandatory. Unexcused lab absence will result in
removal from the course with a ÒWÓ grade.
Please discuss excused absences with me as soon as possible in person,
by phone, or email.
Academic
Honesty
I will
prosecute any case of academic fraud or dishonesty that I can document. Academic dishonesty, simply put, is
representing work as your own when it is not. If, in your judgment, an issue might be subject to academic
honesty considerations, ask me for clarification as soon as possible, that is,
before you might appear as if you acted dishonestly.
Homework. You may work in collaboration with any
student or group of students, or you may work independently. To receive credit, answers must be
submitted by each student.
Exams. You are expected to work completely
independently on the exams.
Lab. You will work and gather data in
collaborating group. Nevertheless,
you are expected to write your lab reports independently.
Lab
Lab is required for this course.
There are two lab texts:
1. Illinois College Spring 2005 Chemistry
112 Laboratory Manual.
2. Cooperative Chemistry laboratory
manual, 2nd edition, by MM Cooper.
Lab
grading and procedures will be described in your first lab session.
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Chemistry 112: General
Chemistry II |
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Week |
Lectures |
Chapter |
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1/17 |
Introduction, scope of
the course, the liquid state of matter |
11 |
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1/24 |
The solid stae of
matter, phase conversions, phase diagrams |
11,12 |
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Fuels: natural gas,
coal, and petroleum; environmental issues |
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1/31 |
Reactions of functional
groups; synthetic and natural polymers, |
12,13 |
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chemical kinetics |
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Friday 2/4, Exam I,
Chapters 11,12 |
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2/7 |
Chemical kinetics |
13 |
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2/14 |
Chemical kinetics,
chemical equilibria |
13,14 |
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2/21 |
Chemical equilibria |
14 |
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Friday 2/25, Exam
II, chapters 13,14 |
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2/28 |
Solutions: enthalpy and
entropy effects, temperature and |
15 |
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pressure effects,
concentration effects |
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3/7 |
Solutions:
concnetration effects, colligative properties, acids |
15,16 |
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and bases |
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3/14 |
Spring break |
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3/21 |
Acids and bases |
16 |
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3/25-3/28 |
Easter break |
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3/28 |
Buffers, solution
equilibria |
17 |
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Monday 4/4, Exam
III, Chapters 15,16,17 |
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4/4 |
Thermodynamics laws,
Gibbs free energy, equilibrium |
18 |
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constants |
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4/11 |
Kinetic stability,
redox reactions |
18,19 |
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4/18 |
Electrochemical cell
potential, Nernst Equation, fuel cells |
19 |
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4/25 |
Radioactivity, atomic
nuclei stability,nuclear decay |
20 |
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5/2 |
Fission, fussion,
transition metal chemistry |
20,22 |
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Monday 5/9, Exam IV,
Chapters 18,19,20, parts of 22 |
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Saturday 5/14, Final
Exam, 3-5 |
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Week |
Lab project |
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1/24 |
Gravimetric analysis of
phosphorous |
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1/31 |
Spectrophotometric
analysis of nitrogen dioxide |
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2/7 |
Organic synthesis of
phthalocyanine dye |
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2/14 |
Kinetic factors |
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2/21 |
Shifting reactions |
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2/28 |
Acid and base
interactions |
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3/7 |
Quantitative analysis
of acids |
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3/14 |
Spring break |
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3/21 |
Oxidation-reduction
reactions |
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3/28 |
Easter break |
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4/4 |
Infrared spectroscopy
and mass spectroscopy |
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4/11 |
NMR spectroscopy |
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4/18 |
Identification of an
unknown organic compound I |
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4/25 |
Identification of an
unknown organic compound II |
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4/2 |
Cleanup and checkout |