Chemistry 101
Mrs. Freschl
Fall 2016
This course is intended for ONLY nursing majors and health science majors. If you are majoring
in biology, psychology or planning on taking more chemistry courses (except for Chemistry 103), you
are in the WRONG course.
Prerequisites: A Grade of C or better in Chemistry 100 or a placement of 1 on the Chem placement
test and a score of 30 on the math placement test (or a C or better in Math 105). There will be NO
exceptions to the grade of C or better in Chem 100.
My own prerequisite: A good
attitude would be very helpful for learning chemistry this
semester, for making this course fun (learning can be fun) and for ending up with a good grade.
Required materials:
1) Textbook: "General, Organic and Biochemistry” 9th edition, Denniston, Topping and Caret
Paperback version (approx cost $160) [You may use the 8th edition]
2) Lab manual: "Catalyst: Prentice Hall Custom Laboratory Program” (approx cost $40)
3) Calculator (not programmable) ($5)
4) Lab safety goggles ($10)
Lecture attendance: Attendance in lecture is strongly recommended. You will find you will learn a
pay attention and stay awake!!
lot in lecture, providing you attend,
It is definitely to your benefit to come to lecture.
Effort: This course is time consuming. Plan to put at least 5 hours/week into the course (not counting
class time) for rewriting your lecture notes, reading the textbook, studying etc. See attached hand-out
called “How to Succeed in Chemistry 101”.
Grading:
Lab grade = 15%, Lecture Quizzes = 10%,
Hourly exams 5%, 15% and 20%, (5% is lowest grade. It can be any exam) Final exam = 35%
Or Hourly exams 15% each, Final exam = 30%
(The computer will decide which option works best for you)
[However, you cannot pass this course with a "C" without doing at least "C" work on the hourly exams
and/or the final, no matter how great you do in lab and the quizzes!!]
Quizzes: There will be a quiz every week, except the week of hourly exams. There are NO make-up
quizzes. Two quizzes will be dropped from the average. Do not use them up in the beginning of the
semester, since you might need them for illnesses at the end. If you take all the quizzes, your two lowest
scores will be dropped. It is to your advantage to attempt to take ALL the quizzes. The purpose of
quizzes is to help you learn, make sure you keep up with the material and give you practice. They are
NOT meant to torture you!! Answers to the quizzes will be on D2L.
Dropping the course: Students may drop before Oct 28.
Hourly Exams: Tuesday Sept 27, Oct. 25 and Nov 22. These are one-hour exams, but I will allow
people to remain an extra 15 minutes if you so desire. If you have a job, arrange right now to have time
off during those evenings. Tuesday Dec 13 is a cumulative mini-final exam which is all scantron.
There are NO make-up exams. If you miss an exam, you must bring in written notification as to why
you were unable to attend. Your Final Exam will then count as 45% of your grade. This is not a
desirable option for you since the Final Exam is usually harder than the individual hourly exams. It is to
your benefit to attempt to take all three exams as scheduled, even if you are feeling slightly ill.
Cumulative FINAL EXAM:
Final exam rooms will be assigned later in the semester.
My Office hours: Room Chem 145 (229-3759) E-mail address: freschl@uwm.edu
MWF 10:00 to 11:00 and 12:00 to 2:00
Laboratory: Attendance at ALL laboratory meetings is required. Missing several laboratory meetings
will result in automatic failure in the course. An absence from lab will be excused ONLY upon
presentation to me of a written request with appropriate documentation. If you know in advance, you
can schedule with your TA another time that week to make up the lab. Labs cannot be made up the
following week because the equipment and chemicals are not available. Your TA will discuss with you
pre-labs, laboratory write-ups and lab reports.
Laboratory Safety: State Laws require that you must wear safety glasses at all times when laboratory
work is in progress. You must bring them to the first day of lab. Failure to wear your safety glasses can
result in your being banned from the lab, which would result in an 'F' in the course. So please,
remember to wear them. Also remember, that although you might know what you are doing, your
neighbor might NOT!! You will be working with some dangerous chemicals, and it only takes a small
accident to cause loss of an eye.
Sandals and shorts (and mini skirts) are not allowed in the lab. TA’s will not let you in and you will
receive a ZERO for the lab.
Discussion class: Attendance in discussion is required. This is when you will get back your lecture
quizzes and exams, when the TA will go over the answers to the quizzes, exams, and the problem sets,
when you will discuss the next lab experiment, when you can ask questions concerning lecture and
textbook material, and the questions at the end of the chapter. This can be a very useful time to help
you learn Chemistry. Don't waste it.
Problem Sets: Periodically throughout the course I will be handing out problem sets. These are NOT
for a grade and are not required, but they are highly recommended. The answers to these problem sets
will be given out in lecture or can be found on my web page.
Web Page: Last year’s hour exams will be on D2L “Desire2Learn”. The old exams will be a very
useful study guide to this semester’s exams. I will also post the current quizzes with answers and the
current exams with answers. To get to D2L, go to UWM home page (www.uwm.edu). Click on the
dropdown box “Quicklinks”, select D2L and click on the “go” arrow. Your username is your ePanther
username and the password is your ePanther password.
Fun: I hope you have a good
time learning chemistry.
Chemistry 101
Fall 2016
Mrs. Freschl
Laboratory schedule
Lab manual: "Catalyst: Prentice Hall Custom Laboratory Program”
Week of
Experiment
Sept 6
NO LABORATORY
Sept 12
Safety & Thinking Metric (hand-out)
Sept 19
What is a Chemical Reaction? (page 7)
Sept 26
Physiologically Important Ions (page 103)
Oct 3
Composition of a Compound (page 17)
Oct 10
Halogens (page 25)
Oct 17
Analysis of commercial bleaches (page 33)
Oct 24
How fast are chemical reactions? (page 39)
Oct 31
The Calorie (page 47) Ignore question 3 page 52
Nov 7
Chemical reactions that can go both ways (page 55)
Nov 9
Concentration of an unknown acid (page 65)
Nov 14
pH scale and indicators (page 75)
Nov 21
NO LABORATORY
Nov 28
Buffer solutions (page 85)
Dec 5
Metals (page 93)
Chemistry 101
Fall 2016
Mrs. Freschl
Lecture schedule
Textbook: "General, Organic and Biochemistry” 9th edition, Denniston, Topping and Caret
This schedule is very
progresses.
tentative, not definite and will be subject to change as the semester
Sept 5
Sept 7
Sept 9
LABOR DAY
Chap 1
Chap 1
Sept 12
Sept 14
Sept 16
Chap 2
Chap 2
Chap 2 & Quiz
Structure of the atom [Ignore sec 2.7 trends on periodic table]
Sept 19
Sept 21
Sept 23
Chap 9
Chap 9
Chap 9 & Quiz
Radioactivity [Ignore units of radiation: bottom p 320 to 321]
Sept 26
Chap 3
Oct 3
Oct 5
Oct 7
Chap 4
Chap 4
Chap 4 & Quiz
Oct 10
Oct 12
Oct 14
Chap 4
Chap 5
Chap 5 & Quiz
Gases
Oct 17
Oct 19
Oct 21
Chap 5
Chap 5
Chap 5 & Quiz
Liquids & Solids
Methods & Measurements
Ionic and Covalent compounds
[Ignore p 108 to 112: resonance & exceptions to octet]
[Tuesday Sept 27 at 5:30 First Exam]
Sept 28
Chap 3
Sept 30
Chap 3
Calculations and chemical equations
Oct 24
Chap 6
Oct 26
Oct 28
Solutions
[Ignore p 207 to 210, fr pt depression problems, molality]
[Ignore p 212 to top 213 osmotic pressure calculations]
[Tuesday Oct 25 at 5:30 Second Exam]
Chap 6
Chap 6
Oct 31
Nov 2
Nov 4
Chap 6
Chap 7
Chap 7 & Quiz
Nov 7
Nov 9
Nov 11
Chap 7
Chap 7
Chap 8 & Quiz
Nov 14
Nov 16
Nov 18
Chap 8
Chap 8
Chap 8 & Quiz
Energy, rate & equilibrium [Ignore p 231-233 entropy]
Acids and Bases
Nov 21
Chap 8
Oxidation/reduction
[Tuesday Nov 22 at 5:30 Third exam]
Nov 23
NO CLASS
Nov 25
NO CLASS
Nov 28
Nov 30
Dec 2
Chap 10
Chap 10
Chap 10 & quiz
Dec 5
Dec 7
Dec 9
Chap 10
Chap 10
Chap 10 & Quiz
Dec 12
Chap 11
Unsaturated hydrocarbons
[Tuesday Dec 13 at 5:30 Fourth Exam]
Chap 11
[Ignore bottom p 384, p393-394 benzene reactions]
Dec 14
Cumulative Final Exam
Intro to Organic, & Saturated hydrocarbons
[Ignore table 10.8 (p342), sec 10.4 (p349-350) conformations]
Chemistry 101
Suggested homework problems
Edition 8
(Answers are in the back of the textbook. Make sure you can get these problems right BEFORE
you take your exams, not after!!)
These problems are a little TOO easy but they are a good start. My problem sets are more
difficult. They will be handed out in lecture and they are on D2L.
Chapter 1: In chapter: 7, 9, 11, 15, End of chapter: 51, 53, 55, 69, 71, 75, 77, 79, 81, 91, 93,
95, 99, 107, 103, 105, 117b, 121, 123, 125, 127, 131,
Problem Set 1
Chapter 2: In chap: 1, 9, 11, End of chap: 19, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 53, 55, 67, 69,
71, 73, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 95, 101, 103, 105, 107,
Chapter 9: In chap: 3, 5, 9, End of chap: 19, 21, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 37, 41, 43, 45, 49, 51,
53, 63, 65, 69
Problem Set 2
Chapter 3
17, 19, 21, 23, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 63, 75, 79a,c, 93,
95, 99
Problem Sets 3 & 4
Chapter 4
In chap: 3, 5, 7, 9, End of chap: 15, 17, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 33, 35, 39, 43, 45, 47,
49, 51, 67, 85, 87, 89,
Problem Sets 5 & 6
Chapter 5
35, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 53, 55, 59, 61, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 83, 85, 89, 95,
Problem Set 7 & 7B
Chapter 6
In chap 3, 7, End of chap: 29, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 63, 73, 75,
Problem Set 8
Chapter 7
In chap 17, End of chap: 65, 77, 81, 83, 87, 91, 93, 101, 103
Problem Set 9
Chapter 8 Acid/bases:
27, 29, 31, 33, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 59a, 63a,b, 65, 67,
69, 71, 77, 79, 83, 85, 87, 91
Problem Sets 10 & 11
Chapter 8 Oxidation/Reduction
Chapter 10
85, 97,
Problem Set 12
In chap: 3, 5, End of chap 15, 33, 35, 41, 53, 55, 57, 65, 67, 69, 75, 77, 79, 81, 83,
Problem Sets Short alkane naming & Organic P.S. 2
Chapter 11 In chap: 11, 13, 15, 17, End of chap: 43, 47, 49, 51, 53, 63, 65, 67, 69, 73, 83, 89,
Organic Problem Set 3