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CLASS INFORMATION:
- Winter 2013 Syllabus
- Winter 2013 Schedule
- Course-level Learning Outcomes


LECTURE NOTES
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 10
Chapter 4
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 14
Chapter 5
Chapter 8
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 18
Chapter 9
Chapter 15
Chapter 16

EXAM REVIEWS
Exam 1
Exam 2
Exam 3
Exam 4
Exam 5
Final Exam

EXAM and QUIZ KEYS
Quiz 1
Quiz 2
Quiz 3
Quiz 4
Quiz 5
Exam 1
Exam 2
Exam 3
Exam 4
Exam 5

HANDOUTS

Periodic Table

Naming Compounds
- Key

Lewis Structures
- Key

Chapters 9 and 10
- Key

Intermolecular Forces
- Key

Balancing Equations
- Key

Predicting Products
- Key

Redox Reactions
- Key

ANNOUNCEMENTS


• The Final Exam Practice p. 1 key and the Final Exam Multiple-Choice Practice key are now available.
  
  
• The Exam 5 key is now available.
  Exam 5 Statistics for Section 02
  - High: 97%
  - Average: 73.97%
  
  
• Download the Solution Stoichiometry key to check your work. (Download a copy of the Solution Stoichiometry handout if you were absent in class on Thursday, 03/14/13.)
  
  
• Applications are now available for the Seattle Central Foundation Scholarship.
  - Deadline: April 26th
  
  
• Final Exam: 10:30am-12:30pm on Wednesday, 03/20/13
  - The final exam is comprehensive, covering all of the topics covered during the quarter.
  - The Final Exam Study Guide is now available.
  - Part of the final exam will be multiple-choice format, so bring a #2 pencil and a scantron form (view a copy).
  
  
• Access the following Website for multiple-choice practice quizzes to prepare for the final exam:
  - The Tro Introductory Chemistry Website
  - The Corwin 4th edition Web site (called Explorer Quizzes)
  
  
• The Quiz 5 key is now available.
  

• Lectures notes for Chapter 16 are now available. Download them before class on Tuesday, March 12th.


• Lectures notes for Chapter 15 are now available. Download them before class on Wednesday, March 6th.


• The Exam 4 key is now available.
  Exam 4 Statistics for Section 02
  - High: 101%
  - Average: 77.5%
  
  
• Lectures notes for Chapter 9 are now available. Download them before class on Wednesday, Feb. 27th.


• The Quiz 4 key is now available.
  
  
• The Exam 3 key is now available.
  Exam 3 Statistics for Section 02
  - High: 95%
  - Average: 69.9%
  
  
• The key to the Naming Compounds Practice Problems is now available.


• Download the 12-page Naming Compounds Handout (and Key) to prepare for Exam 3.


• Lectures notes for Chapter 18 are now available. Download them before class on Thursday, Feb. 21st.


• Lectures notes for Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 are now available. Download them before class on Tuesday, Feb. 14th.


• Exam 3: Friday, 02/15/13, covering Chapters 5, 12, and 14.
  - The Exam 3 Study Guide is now available.
  
  
• The Quiz 3 key is now available.
  
  
• The Exam 2 key is now available.
  Exam 2 Statistics for Section 02
  - High: 93%
  - Average: 74.2%
  
  
• Lectures notes for Chapter 5 and Chapter 8 are now available.


• The Quiz 2 key is now available.
  
  
• The Exam 1 key is now available.
  Exam 1 Statistics for Section 02
  - High: 98%
  - Average: 76.1%
  
  
• Lectures notes for Chapter 12 and Chapter 14 are now available.


• The Quiz 1 key is now available.
  
  
• The key to the Penny Calculation (by composition versus by mass) from Chapter 2 is now available.


• Chapter 11 lecture notes are now available.


• Lectures notes for Chapter 3, Chapter 10, and Chapter 4 are now available.


• First Day of Class: Wednesday, January 2nd
  - Attendance is required. Due to the long waitlist, students who are absent will be dropped from the class.




TEXTBOOKS AND OTHER REQUIRED RESOURCES

 

• Introductory Chemistry: A Foundation by Steven S. Zumdahl and Donald J. DeCoste (7^th edition), ISBN: 1439049408 or 978-1439049402 (front shown cover above)
  
  Links to online retailers for the Zumdahl 7^th edition textbook:
  Amazon.com (new copies)   or   Amazon.com (used copies)
  BarnesandNoble.com (new copies and used copies)
  Half.com (new and used copies)
  
  
• Students will not be allowed to use programmable graphing calculators on quizzes and exams. Thus, students are required to have a basic scientific non-programmable calculator that can carry out exponential functions (indicated with an EE or EXP button) such as a TI-30Xa. (See example above). These can be purchased at the SCCC Bookstore, Target, Fred Meyer, and office supply stores such as OfficeDepot, OfficeMax, and Staples.
  
  
• Students must also purchase a basic composition notebook for homework problems. The homework notebook will be submitted for grading on each exam day.


• Access the SCCC Chemistry Website

VIDEOS, ANIMATIONS, and APPLETS:

• Powers of Ten video (about metric units and the relative size of each unit)
  
  
• Earth: The Climate Wars - Part 1: The Battle Begins (BBC video on Global Warming)
  • The end of the Ice Age Theory (10:05)
  • CO₂ Plot (19:56)
  • CO₂ and IR Camera (20:53)
  • Global Warming and JASON Scientists (23:35)
  • Skeptic Movement (37:00)
• Earth: The Climate Wars - Part 2: Fight Back
• Earth: The Climate Wars - Part 3: New Challenges
  
  
• Acid Rain Videos
  - Acid Rain by Patrick Verlin YouTube video
  - National Geographic's Acid Rain: Invisible Menace video
  - Discover Channel's Acid Rain is Eating Washington, DC video
  
  
• Potential and Kinetic Energy
  - The Wile E. Coyote youtube
  - The Smart Car crash youtube
  
  
• Learn more about Atomic Theory by going to The Elegant Universe Website.
  - Watch "The Elegant Universe" online


• Access the "Einstein's Big Idea" page on PBS.org and youtube.
  - Introduction and Part I on Michael Faraday and Electromagnetism
  - Michael Faraday and Electromagnetism Part I
  - Michael Faraday and Electromagnetism Part II
  - Lavoisier and Conservation of Mass Part I
  - Lavoisier and Conservation of Mass Part II
  
  
• NASA Science's Electromagnetic Spectrum Basics video
  
  
• How Stuff Works videos on Atomic Theory and Quantum Mechanics
  
  • #1 Classical Physics and Electromagnetism
    
  • #2 Planck and Blackbody Radiation
    
  • #3 Rutherford's Nuclear Model and Bohr's Model
    
  • #4 Wave-Particle Duality (Photoelectric Effect, Wave-Particle Duality)
    
  • #5 Bohr Model, Heisenberg, and Schrodinger's Model
    
  • #6 Max Born, Probability, and Schrodinger's Cat
    
    
• youtube video on Planck and Blackbody Radiation, Lenard and Einstein and the Photoelectric Effect, and de Broglie and Wave-Particle Duality
  
  
• The Photoelectric Effect Applet
  
  
• Physics Education Technology (PhET) Applets from UC Boulder
  • The Photoelectric Effect Applet
    
  • Neon Lights and Other Gas Discharge Tubes Applet
    
  
  
• "Bizarre Quantum Mechanics Explained in Animation"
  
  
• Molecules in Motion Applet
  
  
• Dr. Nutt's Phase Change Applet (Davidson College Chemistry Website)
  
  
• How Car Batteries Work YouTube video
  
  
• Videos on Fuel Cells
  - How Stuff Works: How Fuel Cells Work
  - Nova Science Now: Fuel Cells
  - Honda's Video Guide to hydrogen fuel cell technology
  
  
• Chemical Reactions Animations and Videos
  - Sodium and chlorine reaction video
  - Decomposition of ammonium dichromate video
  - Brainiac Alkali Metals video
  - MythBusters Alkali Metals video
  - YouTube Disposal of Sodium Metal in a lake video
  - YouTube Cesium and Rubidium in water video
  - Sucrose-KClO₄ (G. Bear) Reaction video
  - Acid-Base Neutralization video
  
  
• Rutherford's Alpha-Scattering experiment animation
  
  
• Nova's "Absolute Zero" video
  - Chapter 6: The Holy Grail
  - Chapter 7: A Temperature Cascade
  
  
• States of Matter
  - Access the Pearson Education applet for viewing the states of matter when heated and cooled at the molecular levels
  - Access the States of Matter activity on the Harcourt School Website.
  
  

LECTURE RESOURCES:

• Download copies of the following Learning Styles handouts
  - Personality Spectrum survey
  - Pathways to Learning
  - Multiple Intelligences skills and Personality Spectrum profiles
  
  
• Check out the Dimensional Analysis Tutorial on Alan D. Earhart's Chemistry Page.
  
  
• Access the Tro Introductory Chemistry Website for tutorials, practice quizzes, and other resources.
  
  
• Access the Corwin 4th edition Web site for additional practice problems (called Explorer Quizzes) and other resources.
  
  
• The Chemistry Website at the University of Akron includes self-grading practice quizzes and animations!
  
  
• For help on wave-particle duality, check out the following tutorials on the University of Colorado at Boulder's Physics 2000 Website for practice quizzes and animations.
  - Experiments on Wave Interference
  - The Classic Two-Slit Experiment
  - Electron Interference
  
  

GENERAL INFORMATION:


• Use RateMyProfessors.com to leave feedback about your professors, and let other students know which are good teachers and which to avoid.
  
  
• The Gates Millennium Scholars Program, administered by the United Negro College Fund, will provide scholarships and fellowships for outstanding low-income African-American, Native American, Hispanic American, and Asian American students to attend the undergraduate and graduate institutions of their choice.
  
  
• Other chemistry WEB sites around the nation:
  
  
  • Chemistry WEB site at the University of Akron, where they have self-grading practice quizzes and animations!

  This Website is maintained by Marie Villarba.