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.