General Chemistry II & Laboratory
CHEM-UA 126
Summer 2019
Prof. John M. Halpin
Office: 1001O Silver
Telephone: (212) 998-8418
Office Hours:
M, W 11:30-12:30
Course Schedule and Outline
| Lectures: | M, T, W, Th 9:00-11:00
a.m. | | Recitations: | T, Th 11:15-12
:30 |
| Room: | LC11 TISCH | | Laboratories: | M, W 1:00-5:15 |
| | | | |
| DATE | DAY | CHAP. | TOPIC |
| July 8 |
M |
11 |
Covalent Bonding |
| July 9 |
T |
11, 13 |
Covalent Bonding; Properties of Mixtures |
| July 10 |
W |
13 |
Properties of Mixtures |
| July 11 |
Th |
13, 16 |
Properties of Mixtures; Kinetics |
| July 15 |
M |
16 |
Kinetics |
| July 16 |
T |
16, 17 |
Kinetics; Equilibriu |
| July 17 |
W |
17 |
Equilibrium |
| July 18 |
Th |
|
Exam 1 (chaps. 11, 13, 16, 17) |
| July 22 |
M |
17, 18 |
Equilibrium; Acid-Base Equilibri |
| July 23 |
T |
18 |
Acid-Base Equilibria |
| July 24 |
W |
18, 19 |
Acid-Base Equilibria; Ionic Equilibri |
| July 25 |
Th |
19 |
Ionic Equilibria |
| July 29 |
M |
19 |
Ionic Equilibria |
| July 30 |
T |
19, 20 |
Ionic Equilibria; Thermodynamic |
| July 31 |
W |
20 |
Thermodynamics |
| Aug. 1 |
Th |
|
Exam 2 (chaps. 17-20) |
| Aug. 5 |
M |
20, 21 |
Thermodynamics; Electrochemistry |
| Aug. 6 |
T |
21 |
Electrochemistry |
| Aug. 7 |
W |
21 |
Electrochemistry |
| Aug. 8 |
Th |
21 |
Electrochemistry |
| Aug. 12 |
M |
24 |
Nuclear Reactions |
| Aug. 13 |
T |
24 |
Nuclear Reactions |
| Aug. 14 |
W |
24 |
Nuclear Reactions |
| Aug. 15 |
Th |
|
Exam 3 (chaps. 20, 21, 24) |
REQUIRED MATERIALS
Text: Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change, 8th Ed.,
by Martin S. Silberberg*.
Lecture notes: Available only at the NYU Bookstore
(do not mistakenly purchase the CHEM-UA 125 notes!).
iClicker lecture response device: available at the NYU Bookstore.
Scientific calculator: Your calculator must be capable of evaluating
logarithms, performing
exponentiation, and calculating trigonometric functions. It must have at least an eight-digit display and you
must be able to switch between scientific notation and decimal notation. Most standard scientific
calculators have these features and they are priced as low as $13.
If you use an advanced scientific
calculator, you must delete all programs and/or text related to
chemistry before an exam or quiz.
*Your Chemistry course is participating in the IncludED program.
This is an NYU Bookstore initiative that delivers required course materials
digitally at the lowest possible price. The book, Chemisty by Silberberg,
will be delivered to you digitally. You will receive an email the week
before classes giving you the link to access the material.
The cost of the book is $94.50, which will be added as a
"book charge"
to your bursar bill, this is a savings of $175.00 over the new hardcopy price.
If you decide not to use this digital edition you can opt-out of the program.
The deadline for opting out is June 3rd.
You can find the opt-out link and more information about the program here:
https://www.nyu.edu/about/leadership-university-administration/office-of-the-president/office-of-the-executivevicepresident/finance-and-budget/campus-services/nyu-campus-stores/included.html
LECTURES
Every topic that you need to know for this course
will be either covered in lecture or specified in
lecture as a reading assignment.
There are topics in the
book that we will skip or cover lightly. There are
other cases where the book devotes little or no coverage
to a topic and we will look at it in detail.
To learn what is important, and what it is about it
that I consider important, you need to attend the lectures.
The course is the lectures. The book is a tool.
While attending lecture is important, it is not where
you actually gain an understanding of chemistry.
You have to take all of the information presented to
you and fit it together. You have to build your own
model of the (chemical) world that is consistent
with everyone else's model (especially mine).
That takes a lot of thought, effort, and practice.
The amount of time necessary will vary from person to person.
However, at a bare minimum, plan on spending at least
twice as much time working outside of class as the amount
spent in class. For the summer, that is a large fraction of
your time. If you want to understand chemistry (and/or get
a good grade), that is what it will take. I had a line in the
first term syllabus that said you'd need to "eat, breathe,
and sleep chemistry". As those of you from the first summer
term now know, I wasn't joking.
We will generally follow the sequence of topics from the
book. However, whenever the notes differ from the book,
follow the notes. They may only differ in emphasis,
or they may actually disagree with statements from the text.
I'll usually mention when any difference arises.
One chapter in which we will differ from the book is Chapter 17.
I will even hand out a set of homework problems not from the book
for that particular chapter.
To ensure that you have a correct version of the notes and
to allow you to listen to the lectures rather than simply
transcribe them, you should purchase reduced size copies of
the lecture slides. These "Lecture Notes"
are sold at the NYU Bookstore.
Within the notes, there are some items that
you'll have to fill in (generally, numerical examples) and
I recommend that you use the wide margins to mark down
other things that I say or to show the emphasis that I place
on a particular section. I will not be putting the notes
on our web page. This is not a distance learning
course.
Attendance of the lectures is required and will be monitored through
the iClickers. After you miss three (3) lectures, I will begin to
deduct 1/2 point from your overall score for each additional absence.
If you don't check in or answer a question with your device during a
lecture, then you were not there (forgotten devices, arriving too
late, dead batteries, etc., count as absences).
Some people like chemistry and some people don't. Most people
like General Chemistry II more than General Chemistry I.
I think this common preference for the second course is
because the connections between various topics are
easier to see (even when they appear in different chapters), you
learn the truth about some points that were "oversimplified"
in the first course, and you are able to generalize what
you learn more effectively. By "generalize", I mean that
by studying subjects like chemical equilibrium, you'll find
it easier to understand some non-chemical things
(if there are such things) in the world, such as traffic,
the economy, life and death ... pretty important stuff.
RECITATIONS
The recitation is intended to help you to understand the course material.
While it is also where you are quizzed and where you hand in your homework,
you should view its primary purpose as a question and answer session
where you can obtain an explanation of any course material.
Your homework will not be "corrected". You will hand it in and it will
be evaluated for completeness and authenticity (i.e., is it "real", or is it
just a copy of the
solutions manual?). If you make a mistake, it is up to you to find
that out and to find out just where you went wrong. Usually, you'll know when
you're likely to have made a mistake and you can ask for help during
recitation. Work with other students outside of class. Go to your instructor's
office hours and ask there. It is regrettable, but the instructors do not have
time to examine each homework set for errors.
Numerical answers to the homework problems will be available on the course web page
(see below) shortly before the due date.
You can check many
of your answers before going to recitation so that if you have gotten
a particular problem wrong, you'll know that you need help with it.
Detailed solution methods
will not be given because I believe that these would inhibit your
thinking the problem through.
Answers to conceptual questions will not be available on-line because,
again, they would inhibit your thinking about the problem.
It is a bad idea to look at complete
solutions (if you should find them) because you'll learn a lot more
if you figure the answers out for yourself.
The quiz will be given at the end of each recitation meeting. It will
consist of a couple of problems or questions dealing with material covered
in the lectures. You will always have more than 24 hours between
lecture coverage and the quiz on a particular topic.
However, since homework is not due until after a chapter has been collected,
yet the quiz is meant to keep you current, you can be quizzed on a topic
for which the homework has not been turned in. Stay up to date on
topics, and you'll stay up to date for the quiz.
In order to ensure equality between
recitation sections, you MUST hand in your quiz when the instructor
says that the time allowed has elapsed. 10 minutes is scheduled
for each quiz.
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
The assigned problems have been chosen to clarify concepts that I regard
as important and to give you practice in solving problems of the type
commonly encountered on quizzes and exams. It is NOT possible
to perform well at test time unless you have done the homework. One of
the most frequent remarks I hear (after an exam) is "I really understand
the material. I just can't solve the problems!"
What would you do if your doctor said "I
understand your illness completely. I'm just not very good at curing it!"?
I'll be happy if you do understand the material. But the fact is, your grade
is going to depend upon your demonstrating that you understand it.
To prove it, you have to answer questions and solve problems. Responding
correctly, quickly, and coherently to these problems will require
practice.
So ... "do" the problems. In addition to the 9 % of your grade that
they earn, you will perform better at test time.
Some recommendations:
- Read the chapter before trying an assignment.
- Work independently, but in the presence of other class members. If you get
stuck, discuss it (but don't just read and copy your classmate's work).
Discuss concepts too!
- Refer to the answer book only as a last resort. If you use the answer book
to "figure out" a problem, do a similar problem without the answer book.
- Write notes to yourself while you do the homework so that you can remember
which problems gave you trouble and what was unclear. When you get to
recitation (or office hours) use those notes to frame your questions.
- Xerox your homework before handing it in. If you hand it in two days before an exam,
you may wish you had a copy later that evening or the next.
WEB COMPONENTS
There is a web page for all general chemistry courses at NYU.
The URL is
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/inorg
The General Chemistry II page will
contain information about this course and will be used to disseminate
supplementary materials and to make announcements concerning the
course.
It contains a number of items and I recommend that you
look at it to see what is available at your earliest opportunity.
Please pay particular attention to the "Announcements" section.
There you will find all important administrative notices for the
course.
I will set up an NYUClasses page for the lecture section and,
if your instructor requests,
for your recitation
section. The lecture NYUClasses page will be used by Prof. An for
the laboratory portion of the course - I will be using
the NYUClasses page merely to send email messages to the entire class.
A note about email: Like last semester, do not send email to me.
See me in person whenever you have a question or need something from me.
I have 2 hours set aside to meet with you each week
and I am willing to talk with individuals at the end of each lecture.
I will not reply to any email sent to me
(so you will be wasting your time by sending it).
GRADING
There will be three examinations during this course. They will be held on
alternate Thursdays (7/18, 8/1, and 8/15) from 9:15 a.m. to 10:55 a.m.
They are not explicitly
cumulative, though new chemical topics tend to build upon past topics.
There will be a quiz during every recitation meeting. You must
complete the homework and turn it in on the due dates.
Your grade will be evaluated as
| lab | 25% |
| exams | 18% each |
| quizzes | 12% |
| homework | 9% |
STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
If you have a documented disability you can arrange to take quizzes
and or exams at the Center for Students with Disabilities
(726 Broadway, 2nd Floor). It is your responsibility to make arrangements
with that
office and with me before the first quiz or exam.
ILLNESS
If you miss a lecture due to illness, study the lecture notes and feel
free to ask questions about them.
If you miss a quiz, you must provide documentation on a physician's
stationery that says that you were too ill to attend the recitation.
If you are ill on the day of an exam
and can provide a doctor's note, your grade will be calculated based upon
the other exams and coursework.
Lecture/recitation/exam documentation must be given directly to Prof. Halpin;
laboratory documentation must be given to Prof. An.
All documentation MUST include your name and dates to which it applies.
YOU MUST attach to that a "documentation cover sheet" (downloadable in
PDF format from our course web page) that shows exactly what work you
missed (e.g., lecture, quiz, exam) and the section number of your
recitation (if that cover sheet is missing, the documentation will
not be used and the absence will go unexcused).
Prof. An will provide her own documentation cover sheet for the laboratory portion of this course.
ALL documentation
is subject to verification.
An excused quiz will not count, but you still have to complete the homework.
Unexcused quizzes count as zeros.
If you miss more than one of the three
exams and
you have a doctor's note, I will give you an incomplete (I) for the course
and you can take a make-up exam during the fall 2019 semester.
Any absence will put you behind in your work. At the pace of the course,
it will be difficult to catch up. My advice is to avoid getting sick.
CONDUCT
Cheating in any form will result in a failing grade for this course and
it will be noted in your university records. It will ruin your career.
If you give information to another student during a quiz or an exam,
you are both cheating. We are very good at detecting cheating. Don't
try it.
last updated 11:43 am, Wednesday, July 3, 2019
