Robley J. Light: Office: 204 DLC
Telephone: 644-3844
email: rlight@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
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 213 HTL):
Section 1: Tues. 8:00-8:50 Ref# 07493
Section 2: Tues. 9:00-9:50 Ref# 07501
Section 3: Tues. 10:00-10:50 Ref# 07519
Section 4: Tues. 11:00-11:50 Ref# 07526
Section 5: Tues. 12:00-12:50 Ref# 07533
Section 6: Tues. 1:00-1:50 Ref# 07540
Section 7: Tues. 2:00-2:50 Ref# 07558
Lecture: Sections 8-15 MWF 12:20-1:10 pm, 255 FLH
Recitations (all in 213 HTL):
Section 8: Thurs. 8:00-8:50 Ref# 07565
Section 9: Thurs. 9:00-9:50 Ref# 07572
Section 10: Thurs. 10:00-10:50 Ref# 07580
Section 11: Thurs. 11:00-11:50 Ref# 07597
Section 12: Thurs. 12:00-12:50 Ref# 07605
Section 13: Thurs. 1:00-1:50 Ref# 07612
Section 14: Thurs. 2:00-2:50 Ref# 07620
Section 15: Thurs. 3:00-3:50 Ref# 07637
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MW 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.
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Chemistry, The Central Science 6th Edition, by T. L. Brown,
H. E. LeMay, Jr., and B. E. Bursten; Prentice-Hall, 1994.
A calculator capable of the operations 10x, ex, log x, and
ln x is required.
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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.
CHM 1045L, unless you previously passed it.
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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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There will be three hour exams and a final exam. Note their
scheduled dates now, and plan your calendar accordingly.
Exam I Friday, February 9
Exam II Friday, March 8
Exam III Friday, April 12
Final Exam
Wednesday, April 24, 3:00-5:00 pm
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 19.
Quizzes will be administered in class on Fridays beginning
with the second week of class. They will be taken as a group
activity, one quiz submitted and graded for each group. There
will be a time limit on quizzes.
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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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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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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 1.15-1.24, 1.27-1.32, 1.53, 1.56
2 2.3-2.4, 2.15-2.22, 2.27-2.34,
2.39-2.44, 2.57-2.59
3 3.3-3.6, 3.7-3.9, 3.15-3.17, 3.20-3.22,
3.26-3.33, 3.39-3.44, 3.53-3.58, 3.63-3.67
4 4.5-4.12, 4.51-4.56
5 5.17-5.18, 5.25-5.34, 5.41-5.54
6 6.3-6.8, 6.11-6.18, 6.23-6.29, 6.35-6.40,
6.49-6.56, 6.57-6.62
7 7.12-7.26, 7.29-7.31, 7.37-7.40
8 8.7-8.18, 8.21-8.26, 8.32-8.36, 8.37-8.44,
8.51-8.53, 8.57-8.58, 8.63
9 9.1-9.18, 9.27-9.34
10 10.5-10.8, 10.14, 10.16-10.30, 10.33-10.43,
10.49-10.53, 10.55, 10.58-10.60, 10.65-10.68
11 11.7, 11.10, 11.15-11.18, 11.27-11.28,
11.37-11.38, 11.43-ll.45, ll.51-ll.53,
ll.59, 11.61, 11.63
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There will be four 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 5 points in extra credit.
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. The first group problem will involve becoming
familiar with finding chemical information on the Internet.
You can use electronic mail to ask me questions about the
material, indicate which things need more explanation in
class, 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, and I plan to develop a
class home page as a repository of relevant class information.
You can also communicate with each other, schedule group
meetings, etc. through your email accounts.
I may, on occasion, submit a question to the class by email
and award extra credit to whomever can answer it correctly
within a specified time period, not more than 24 hours.
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The course grade will be calculated on the basis of 635
points, distributed as follows:
Three hour exams*, 100 each 300 points
Seven of nine quizzes, 10 each 70 points
Recitation participation, 5 each 65 points
Final exam* (100 x 2) 200 points
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Total 635 points
(Plus group problem extra credit, maximum of 20 points)
The course average is based on Total/635
* Final exam grade can also substitute for lowest test
grade.
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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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. Try making up your own substitute problem
to solve.
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Date Chapter Topic Other
Jan 8 M 1 Class Organization; Introduction
Jan 10 W 1 Basic Concepts
Jan 12 F 2 Atoms, Molecules and Ions
Jan 15 M Martin Luther King Day, no class
Jan 17 W 2 Atoms, Molecules and Ions (G.Pr. 1)
Jan 19 F 2 " Quiz 1
Jan 22 M 3 Stoichiometry
Jan 24 W 3 "
Jan 26 F 3 " Quiz 2
Jan 29 M 3 "
Jan 31 W 4 Solution Stoichiometry (G.Pr. 1 due)
Feb 2 F 4 (Sections 4.1 and 4.7 only) Quiz 3
Feb 5 M 4 " (G.Pr. 2)
Feb 7 W 5 Energy and Thermochemistry
Feb 9 F EXAM I (Chapters 1-4)
Feb 12 M 5 Energy and Thermochemistry
Feb 14 W 5 "
Feb 16 F 5 " Quiz 4
Feb 19 M 6 Electronic Structure of Atoms
Feb 21 W 6 " (G.Pr. 2 due)
Feb 23 F 6 " Quiz 5
Feb 26 M 7 Periodic Properties of Elements
Feb 28 W 7 " (G.Pr. 3)
Mar 1 F 8 Concepts of Chemical Bonding Quiz 6
Mar 4 M 8 "
Mar 6 W 8 "
Mar 8 F EXAM II (Chapters 5-8(part))
Mar 11 M 8 Concepts of Chemical Bonding
Mar 13 W 8 "
Mar 15 F 9 Molecular Geometry (G.Pr. 3 due) Quiz 7
Mar 18-22 Spring Break
Mar 25 M 9 Molecular Geometry (G.Pr. 4)
Mar 27 W 9 "
Mar 29 F 10 Gases Quiz 8
Apr 1 M 10 "
Apr 3 W 10 "
Apr 5 F 10 " Quiz 9
Apr 8 M 11 Intermolecular Forces
Apr 10 W 11 " (G.Pr. 4 due)
Apr 12 F EXAM III (Chapters 8-10)
Apr 15 M 11 Intermolecular Forces
Apr 17 W 11 "
Apr 19 F Review; Make-up Exams
Apr 24 W FINAL EXAMINATION, 3:00-5:00 pm
(Note: This is a block exam time)
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