Houston Community College Course Outline for CHEM 1412(70305) General Chemistry II/Fall 2015 Time and Location Tuesdays: 6:00 am – 9:00 pm (lecture) Thursdays: 6:00 am – 9:00 pm (Lab) Room: CE-Learning Hub Sci: Rm 414 and 408 Instructor and Course Name: Dr. Mohammad Haque Email Address: mohammad.haque@hccs.edu Required Materials: Textbook: Chemistry by Zumdahl/Zumdahl, 9th edition, Vol. II, Cengage 2014 (ISBN: 978-1-305-03343-6) Lab Manual: CHEM 1412 General Chemistry I Lab by HCCS Chemistry faculty Scantron Cards: Student will need to purchase 4 Scantron Cards for the semester Scientific Calculator: Basic model is TI-30; or you can use a more expensive one (if you use I Phone, it will not be allowed during exam) Lab Equipment: Safety goggles, lab coat or lab apron Online Course Materials: Course Home Page (Eagle Online): https://eo2.hccs.edu/login/index.php Course Description & Course Intent: Continuation of CHEM 1411. Topics include solutions, chemical kinetics, equilibrium and equilibrium phenomena in aqueous solution, acids and bases, pH, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry. The laboratory includes appropriate experiments. Core curriculum course. Chemical concepts and exams are emphasized from a mathematical approach. Course Prerequisite: Chemistry 1411 and MATH 1314 (College Algebra). A student taking this class without proper prerequisites does so at his/her own risk. Disclaimer: The instructor reserves the right to change this syllabus as deemed necessary and appropriate. Free Tutoring (listed in order of importance) 1. Departmental tutors 3. Online (for all Colleges): Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. See the HCC Home page for details. Important Message from HCCS to All Students: "Students who repeat a course three or more times may soon face significant tuition/fee increases at HCC and other Texas public colleges and universities. Please ask your instructor/counselor about opportunities for tutoring/other assistance prior to considering course withdrawal, or if you are not receiving passing grades." American Disability Act Any student with a documented disability (e.g. physical, learning, psychiatric, vision, hearing, etc.) who needs to arrange reasonable accommodations must contact the appropriate HCC Disability Support Service (DSS) Counselor at the beginning of each semester. Faculty is authorized to provide only the accommodations requested by the Disability Support Services Office. Students who are requesting special testing accommodations must first contact the appropriate (most convenient) DSS office for assistance: Disability Support Services Offices System: 713.718.5165 Central: 713.718.6164 (also Deaf and Outside HCC Service Students) Southeast: 713.718.7218 Southwest: 713.718.7909 Northeast: 713.718.8420 Northwest: 713.718.5422 Early Alert Program: The instructor is participating in the Early Alert Program offered by the Counseling Department. Thus, a weekly or monthly attendance and exam records will be forwarded automatically to the Counseling Department without student’s consent. Important Message from Instructor to All Students: This syllabus serves as a binding contract between students and the instructor. Any rule, grading and grade calculation are solely based on what stated in the syllabus. 1. Cell phones: Usage is rare in the class and lab room. All cell phones must be turned off during an examination or quiz and should be in silent mode in class (lab and lecture). If you must use it, please LEAVE the lecture or lab room. If you are found with cellphone during an exam, you’ll automatically receive a zero for that assignment. 2. Early Departure: Please sit near the (exit) door if you do not plan to stay for the entire class time. If you must leave class, please do so quietly. Learning is a personal choice and also a group activity: the Disclaimer: The instructor reserves the right to change this syllabus as deemed necessary and appropriate. behavior of each person in class will affect the experience of the other students; please be courteous. 3. Tardiness: On exam or quiz days, the test will start exactly 5 minutes after the class start time. You will receive exactly 1 hour to complete a quiz and exactly 2 hours to complete an exam. After that time the exams/quizzes will be collected and you will commence the laboratory session. No one will receive extra time, even if they arrive late (for any reason). If there is no laboratory session scheduled for that day, after the exam/quiz collection you will be free to leave. 4. Questions: Questions are always welcome, and encouraged. Try to keep questions on topic during lecture. If they are not quite what we are talking about in lecture, you will be asked to wait until after the period to continue the discussion. This is only so we will be able to cover all we need to in class! Student Responsibilities, Attendance, and Tardiness Policy: Students are expected to follow the rules established by the State and the College printed in Annual Schedule of Classes. Students are solely responsible for making up materials missed due to their tardiness, early departure, and absence, and are expected to study and sign roll sheets every time in class. Academic Honesty Policy: There will be zero tolerance for academic dishonesty. Any student who is caught cheating will receive a grade of zero for that exam/quiz/lab assignment with no exceptions and may be administratively withdrawn from the class. The student will be reported to the College for discipline action. Exam Policy: The student will need a Scantron card for every exam. No make-up exams are allowed for any excuse. System Final Exam is mandatory and cannot be dropped. Thus missing the Final or inadequate preparation for it will have adverse consequence affecting your grade. Dropped Assignments: During the course of the semester, you will have the opportunity to drop some assignments: one dropped homework assignment and one dropped lab. These drops are allowed because unfortunately there will be times that you will be unable to attend class for personal reasons. Therefore, if you can’t attend class, and you have a drop to use, you will not be penalized for missing that assignment. If you have completed all the assignments in the section the assignments dropped will be the ones with the lowest grades. Lab Policy: No make-up labs are allowed. Students must watch safety video during the first lab of class (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o77QEeM-68). In lab section, there will be point deduction for tardiness (15 min), early departure without finishing the lab or instructor’s approval, and not cleaning up the lab benches and hoods, dumping chemicals in sinks/trash cans), excessive chemical usage, and safety violations. Disclaimer: The instructor reserves the right to change this syllabus as deemed necessary and appropriate. Prelab Assignment: Students are required to read through the experiment and complete and hand-in the prelab assignment in order to be able to participate and be prepared for each experiment. If the prelab assignment is not completed the student will receive a zero for the laboratory. Lab Safety: In addition, eating, drinking and horseplay are not allowed in the lab. Safety goggles must be worn at all times in the lab. Experiments are performed in lab groups: a maximum 3 students. All experiments with chemicals released must be performed in the hood. Disclaimer: The instructor reserves the right to change this syllabus as deemed necessary and appropriate. Grading Policy: The overall course grade for all sections will be based on the following point distribution: The method of grade calculation will be exactly as shown in the table below. Assignment Number Lab* 11 Exam** 3 Final 1 Points 1100 300 100 Percentage 20 60 20 *Note: The Lab score will be calculated exactly as follows: • Pre-Lab Component: 20% • Laboratory Write-Up Component: 80% **Note: The Exam score will be calculated as follows: • Multiple Choice Components: 70% • Short Answer Component: 30% A (90.00% - 100.00%) B (80.00% - 89.99%) C (70.00 – 79.99%) D (60.00% - 69.99%) F (0.00% - 59.99%) ***An incomplete (I) may be given at the discretion of the instructor. However, a student must have a passing grade (D or above) at the time of an incomplete being assigned.*** Tips for Learning Chemistry in a Hybrid Course: Chemistry is a difficult math-based subject, which requires conceptual understanding and application, and is not a subject that you can learn or master passively. You must read through the lecture slides, watch the online lectures, and read the textbook to effectively comprehend the material. Chemistry is best learned through doing. Listening to lecture attentively is essential for mastery of the course, but actually working out problems by hand is even more essential. Remember that reading solutions is solely different from solving problems and doing homework and solving practice exams yourself. It usually requires a skillful student more than 20 hours a week of study and practice to become proficient in the subject matter. Students easily fall behind if they do not keep up weekly study and miss classes. Scores from exams speak for your readiness and preparation for the class. If your quiz/exam scores are not up to your standards, please come to office hours and find out where your problems lie: I am so happy to help! See you in class. Disclaimer: The instructor reserves the right to change this syllabus as deemed necessary and appropriate. Tentative Class Outline: Week Class Type Date 1 Lecture Lab Lecture Lab Lecture Lab Lecture Lab Lecture Lab Lecture Lab Lecture Lab Lecture Lab Lecture Lab Lecture Lab Lecture Lab Lecture Lab Tu Aug 25 Th Aug 27 Tu Sep 1 Th Sep 3 Tu Sep 8 Th Sep 10 Tu Sep 15 Th Sep 17 Tu Sep 22 Th Sep 24 Tu Sep 29 Th Oct 1 Tu Oct 6 Th Oct 8 Tu Oct 13 Th Oct 15 Tu Oct 20 Th Oct 22 Tu Oct 27 Th Oct 29 Tu Nov 3 Th Nov 5 Tu Nov 10 Th Nov 12 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Lecture Tu Nov 17 Lab Th Nov 19 Lecture Tu Nov 24 Lab Th Nov 26 Lecture Tu Dec 1 Lab Th Dec 3 Tu Dec 10 Lecture Syllabus and Prologue Safety Training (Video), Equipment Inventory Ch. 11: Properties of Solutions Experiment 1: Elevation of boiling point of a solution Experiment 2: Kinetics of a chemical reaction: the iodine clock reaction Ch. 12: Chemical Kinetics Experiment 3: Acid-base titration: determination of the purity of KHP Ch. 13: Chemical Equilibrium Review for exam 1 and Exp. 5: Estimation of Iron using UV-Vis spectroscopy Exam 1 (Ch. 11-13) Ch. 14: Acids and Bases Experiment 4: Acid-base titration with vernier interface Ch. 15: Acid and Base Equilibria Experiment 6: Electrochemistry: New, Used, and Rechargeable Batteries Ch. 16: Solubility and Equilibria Exam 2 (Ch. 14-16) Ch. 17: Entropy, Free Energy, and Equilibrium Exp-7: Structural formulae and isomerism Ch. 18: Electrochemistry Exp. 8: Identification of functional group using FT-IR spectroscopy Ch. 19: Nuclear Chemistry Review Exam 3 (Ch. 17-19) Exp. 10. Investigation of relationship between flow rates, temperature parameters, and retention times by gas chromatography Ch. 22: Organic and Biological Molecules Exp. 11: Electroplating- metals verses plastics Ch. 22: Organic and Biological Molecules(continued) Thanksgiving! Review (Comprehensive) and Lab check out Review (Comprehensive) Final Exam (Comprehensive) Important Notes: You are expected to read and be familiar with the syllabus and tentative schedule. You must wear proper lab attire (long pants, long sleeves, closed toe shoes) and goggles for all wet experiments. Prelab questions must be completed; procedures and in-lab guidelines must be written out in lab notebook to participate in lab. In-lab guidelines must be initialed and dated by instructor upon completion of experiment. The copy must be left with the instructor on the day of the experiment. Post-labs consist of Post lab report and Post lab Questions Disclaimer: The instructor reserves the right to change this syllabus as deemed necessary and appropriate.