General Chemistry II with Lab – Summer 2015 (session II)
Instructor: Harrison Neal, nealh@evergreen.edu
Program Website: https://canvas.evergreen.edu/courses/578
Program Locations: Lectures in SEM2 C-3105, Lab in LAB2 1241
Course Description
GENERAL CHEMISTRY II (8 credits possible, reference number 40054) is the second of two
courses in the general chemistry sequence for students over the summer quarter. Students
must have taken the previous iteration of this course (General Chemistry I) or the first half of
the year-long college level general chemistry course or equivalent. The topics to be presented
will include thermochemistry, properties and physical changes of matter, solution chemistry,
kinetics, thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium, acid-base chemistry, and aqueous equilibria.
We will also be exploring relevant and current research topics throughout the class. Additional
topics in electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry and coordination chemistry may be presented if
time permits.
Student Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, you will be able to analyze data (experimental and theoretical) and
determine the specifics of the different states of matter and their properties, reaction kinetics,
energy transfer, reaction direction and equilibrium. You will also have a working knowledge of
aqueous acid/base chemistries. You should be able to relate all of these topics to real everyday
life experiences but understand the topics from a pure scientific standpoint as well. Expected
improvement of:
1. Asking and answering questions in an objective and scientific manner using
hypothesis, experimentation and discussion.
2. Solve problems from both a conceptual and numeric pathway. This includes
conceptual understanding of equations and what the relations of variables
mean.
3. Communication of scientific ideas and topics in group discussion, written
and presentation style settings.
4. Connect chemical knowledge and topic understanding to the world around
you and understanding the state-of-the-art research that is being done
today of some of the topics discussed.
Achieving success in General Chemistry II
Your success in GENERAL CHEMISTRY II will depend on your devotion to the mastery of
the materials we discuss during the term. The class consists of meetings July 27th through August
28th, Monday-Friday from 9am – 2pm with evaluation week (conferences optional) on August
31st to September 4th. This includes lectures, small-group problem-solving workshops and
laboratories. Experience shows that math competency is often a deciding factor in achieving
success in this class. You should be at proficient math skill in and including concepts in college
level algebra. As this is not a required prerequisite, students that have difficulty with math can
decide to seek help at the QuaSR in LIB 2304 to improve math skills for greater success in this
course.
Description of Assignments
Homework
There will be practice homework assignments from each section of the book assigned
on the handout attached to this syllabus. All students are responsible for the materials in the
problem set provided as they will appear on quizzes and exams and may be considered in the
final evaluation.
Quizzes and Exams
There will be one quiz for each topic discussed making for 8 total quizzes over the
course. There will be one midterm exam (tentative date August 14th) and a final exam before
evaluations. Students should provide a writing utensil, and calculator or communicate with me
ahead of time. All other necessary materials will be provided including an equation sheet and
periodic table.
Laboratory experiments
Lab safety – All students that participate in lab must be dressed appropriately with no
exposed skin below the waste (including long pants of a thick material, jeans preferred and
closed toed shoes that cover the top of the foot) and you must also wear a shirt that covers your
shoulders (no tank tops or spaghetti straps). You are required to have your goggles on at all
times that there are chemicals out and/or being used in the lab THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS. You
are always welcome to step outside of the lab, remove your goggles and take a break whenever
needed, no need to ask for permission as long as this is not abused. If you do not come prepared
you will either be asked to make adjustments to your attire or be asked to leave without credit
for that day’s lab activity. You have already been shown proper lab etiquette and safety in
General Chemistry 1 and these rules still apply. If for any reason I feel that there is/are student(s)
performing unsafe practice of any kind in the lab, the student(s) involved will be asked to leave
and receive no credit for the lab for that day. Under extenuating circumstances such as power
outage, student injury, fire, etc. I reserve the right to cancel all lab proceedings with no penalty
to students’ final evaluations.
As a significant portion of chemistry and chemical understanding is facilitated in a
laboratory setting, this part of the course is essential for learning for chemistry and all other
aspects of science. Each of the lab experiments will be posted prior to the lab time and an email
remainder will go out to the class once they are visible on Canvas. As lab time is precious, I am
going to strongly emphasis a safe and efficient work ethic in lab, because of this each student
will be required to print out, read and answer the short pre-lab before the scheduled lab time.
All pre-lab assignments will be used in your final evaluation. On the first day of lab I will give you
specific safety instructions to use throughout the course. Any persons showing continued or
purposeful violation of these safety rules will be dismissed from the lab and met with
individually.
The design of the lab is to have you use the information provided in the
lecture/workshop instruction in a real, hands on experiment. The first lab is designed to allow
you to create the experiment yourself and to initiate scientific thinking and experimental
planning to solve a specific problem. The labs that follow are more in-depth lab practice and
instrumentation so the experimental methods are laid out in advance. These labs are still
designed to have you thinking critically about what you are being asked to do, why, and what
the results of the experiments mean. Any new instrumentation will be demonstrated by myself
so that students understand correct instrument operation techniques.
Lab reports are essential for scientists to convey what they have done and to help
others to understand the thought process and findings of an experiment. These reports are
introduced in this class as lab-sheets with guided questions. These lab-sheets should be written
so that your peers would be able to recreate your experiments, reproduce your results and
understand your thought process. Just because an experiment doesn’t give the desired result
does not mean it is a failure, all of the work done in research in the real world is off of trial and
error so think about your results thoroughly and if they do not make sense you should be able to
identify and express that in the lab-sheet. These lab-sheets will be considered for your final
evaluation.
Seminar discussions
Reading and understanding scientific literature is a very important skill for all scientists
to gain and building on these skills as early as general chemistry is an important focus for this
class. You will be provided with articles from chemical literature sites as well as chemistry news
articles. You will need to read these articles and produce answers to questions posed such as:
1. Identify the objective the author is trying to portray or experiment. What are the
author’s findings?
2. Write down clarification questions or concerns related to the articles. What a
specific compound or term may mean to help your understanding.
3. What relevance can you find that relates this article to our class topics and how has
it used the themes of general chemistry to frame the work?
4. Spend about five minutes writing about a broad question related to the reading.
This should be related to the topic, but shouldn’t simply repeat what the author
said. What did this reading get you thinking about? What did you think about the
argument presented? Do you see connections to other topics we’ve covered in this
program, or in other programs?
5. Come up with another experiment you would do to further the research and to
answer some lingering questions you have from #4. Be creative with this but stay
grounded in reality.
These written responses to the article will be collected. During the designated group workshop
times we will be discussing each of the research articles and how it relates to the topics we have
discussed in class. We will be using the above questions each student has prepared to facilitate
discussion. All of these discussion sections and written responses will be used in your final
evaluation. Many of these articles can be difficult to grasp and hard to understand at a general
chemistry level, I will be making the questions very guided where required and only key aspects
relevant to this course will be discussed at length.
Final report and presentation
For your final assignment in this course, you will explore a topic of your interest in
chemistry that relates to the content of this class. You will find an article discussing this topic
and write a research paper with the below requirements.
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1 page (no longer) research paper expressing the article and topics
completely.
A brief summary of the article including major ideas and findings (do not
plagiarize, write this in your own words using scientific terms when
relevant).
Discuss a piece of chemistry-related information in the article and explain
how it is connected to a topic you have learned in this course.
Identify another piece of chemistry-related information from the article that
you would like to learn more about. Explain why you are interested and
investigate this topic, describing your findings.
You should include references to the paper and at least 2 other sources as
foot notes.
Following this research paper you will prepare a one slide presentation, summarizing
the article, expressing your interest in the work and one of the two pieces of chemistry-related
information you discussed in your paper (either how it relates to the class or a topic you
researched more about). These presentations will occur on the last 1-2 days of class. Each
presentation will be 5 minutes long with open class questions. You should ask questions of your
peers during their presentations, I will be keeping track for your final evaluation. All of these
materials: research paper, presentation and relevant questions will be used towards your final
evaluation.
Evaluations
You must write an evaluation of the faculty member and a self-evaluation at the end of
the quarter. It is optional for you to submit your self-evaluation to the Registrar for your
transcript.
Student expectations:
1. If you must miss class (for reasons such as illness or a family emergency), you must
let me know in advance.
2. Due to the fast pace of this program, I will not accept late work. If you believe you
have extenuating circumstances that require extra time, you must let me know in
advance.
3. Be on-time.
4. Do not engage in distracting behavior. We are all adults and we are use cell phones
for everyday life. I’m not your parent, if your laptop your phone becomes a
distraction I ask you to correct yourself or leave. Please keep your cell phone off or
on vibrate during class. If you must take a call I understand but please excuse
yourself and leave the room.
5. Be engaged and participate during class.
6. Don’t cheat or plagiarize any material. I have ZERO tolerance for cheating.
7. Maintain a safe, respectful, and collaborative environment at all times.
Disabilities:
If you have a disability that will affect your learning, or if you need assistance in any
way, please let me know. Also, be sure to contact Access Services (Library 2153), which provides
a variety of different types of support for students with disabilities, including testing
accommodations.
Tutors:
The Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center (QuaSR) has a part-time tutor available
specifically for General Chemistry II, as well as a full-time chemistry tutor. The QuaSR center is
located in the library, room 2304 (www.evergreen.edu/mathcenter). Also, The Writing Center
(www.evergreen.edu/writingcenter) is a great resource for students needing help with writing
skills, and the center offers one-on-one tutoring.
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Required books and supplies:
Chemistry: An Atoms First Approach by Steven Zumdahl and Susan Zumdahl (2012) ISBN # 08400-6532-9
Additional required readings will be posted in a secure location on our Canvas web page
Scientific Calculator (This does not need to be graphing and can be a quite inexpensive
model)
Laboratory safety goggles
Program schedule:
This schedule is a fluid document and may change as the program progresses. Changes
will be announced in class and posted to the program website. It is recommended that you
regularly check the program website. Readings should be completed prior to the day listed.
Homework problems should be completed prior to the next class session.
Date
Monday
July 27
Location
SEM II, C3105
Reading and Bookwork
Chapter 6 (6.1)
HW: 6 (10, 25, 26, 29, 31)
Tuesday
July 28
SEM II, C3105
Wednesday
July 29
Thursday
July 30
LAB II,
1241
SEM II, C3105
Chapter 6 (6.2-6.7)
HW: 6 (37, 39, 42, 44, 47,
52, 55, 74, 86, 87)
Deicer Lab Reading
Friday
July 31
SEM II, C3105
Monday
August 3
SEM II, C3105
Tuesday
August 4
SEM II, C3105
Wednesday
August 5
Thursday
August 6
Friday
August 7
LAB II,
1241
SEM II, C3105
SEM II, C3105
Monday
August 10
SEM II, C3105
Tuesday
August 11
SEM II, C3105
Wednesday
August 12
Thursday
August 13
Friday
August 14
Monday
August 17
LAB II,
1241
SEM II, C3105
SEM II, C3105
SEM II, C3105
Program Topics and Activities
Introductions and program overview
Lecture/workshop: Thermochemistry,
energy, heat and work
Seminar: Thermochemistry Science
Lecture/workshop: Energy and
enthalpy
Chemistry Lab Day: Deicer Lab
Chapter 8 (8.1-8.2, 8.8-8.9)
HW: 8 (39, 89, 94, 97, 99,
109, 133, 134)
Chapter 12 (12.1-12.4)
HW: 12 (26, 27, 29, 34, 40,
43, 44, 48, 53)
Chapter 12 (12.5-12.7)
HW: 12 (12, 18, 20, 57, 60,
68, 81, 85, 102)
Chapter 13 (13.1-13.6)
HW: 13 (11, 12, 14, 28, 30,
33, 38, 39, 43, 54, 88, 99,
106)
Enzyme Kinetics Lab
Reading
Chapter 13 (13.7)
HW: 13 (20, 63, 66, 70)
Chapter 14
HW: 14 (20, 22, 30, 38, 40,
50, 51, 56)
Chapter 14
HW: 14 (68, 73, 95, 104,
106, 120, 171, 172)
Chapter 15 (15.1-15.3)
HW: 15 (21, 23, 25, 27, 29,
36, 42, 48, 106)
Vapor Pressure Lab
Reading
Catchup day
Review for Midterm
Midterm Exam
Quiz #1: Energy and enthalpy
Lecture/workshop: Liquids and Solids
Chapter 15 (15.4-15.5)
HW: 15 (12, 15, 54, 57, 64,
80, 107)
Lecture/workshop: More on acid-base
equilibria, titrations
Quiz #2: Liquids and Solids
Seminar: Liquids and Solids
Lecture/workshop: Reaction Kinetics
Lecture/workshop: Reaction Kinetics
Quiz #3: Kinetics
Seminar: Kinetics
Lecture/workshop: Equilibrium
Chemistry Lab Day: Enzyme Lab
Due today
Thermochem
Seminar sheets
Deicer Prelab
Liquids/Solids
Seminar sheet
Deicer Postlab
Thermochem
and Liquid/Solid
Worksheets
Kinetics Seminar
sheets
Enzyme Prelab
Lecture/workshop: Equilibrium
Quiz #4: Equilibrium
Seminar Equilibrium
Lecture/workshop: Acids and bases
Lecture/workshop: Acids and bases
Equilibrium
Seminar Sheets
Enzyme Postlab
Kinetics and
Equilibrium
Worksheets
Lecture/workshop: Acid and bases in
buffers
Chemistry Lab Day: Vapor Pressure
Catchup day
Review for Midterm
Midterm Exam
Vapor Pressure
Prelab
Vapor Pressure
Postlab
Tuesday
August 18
SEM II, C3105
Chapter 16
HW: 16 (20, 23, 35, 40, 44,
48, 51, 56, 69, 95)
Wednesday
August 19
Thursday
August 20
LAB II,
1241
SEM II, C3105
Acid/Base Lab Reading
Friday
August 21
SEM II, C3105
Monday
August 24
SEM II, C3105
Tuesday
August 25
SEM II, C3105
Wednesday
August 26
Thursday
August 27
Friday
August 28
Mon. Aug 31
– Fri. Sep 4
SEM II, C3105
SEM II, C3105
SEM II, C3105
SEM II, C3105
Chapter 16
HW: 16 (20, 23, 35, 40, 44,
48, 51, 56, 69, 95)
Chapter 17 (17.1-17.6)
HW: 17 (34, 37, 44, 51, 54,
56, 60)
Catchup Day
Quiz #5: Acids/Base
Seminar: Acid/Base
Lecture/workshop: Solubility, complex
ion equilibria
Chemistry Lab Day: Acid/Base
Acid/Base
Seminar Sheets
Acid/Base Prelab
Lecture/workshop: Solubility, complex
ion equilibria
Quiz #6: Solubility
Seminar: Solubility
Lecture/workshop: Thermodynamics
Catchup Day
Quiz #7: Thermodynamics
Lecture/workshop: More on
spontaneity, entropy and free energy
Extra time to finish final projects
Student Final Presentations Student Final Presentations
Acid/Base Postlab
Solubility Seminar
Sheets
Acid/Base and
Solubility
Worksheets
Chapter 17 (17.7-17.9)
HW: 17 (22, 65, 72, 73, 79,
103, 108, 113, 115)
Review for Final
Final Exam
Student evaluations week,
conference optional
Final paper &
Presentations
Leftover Presentations
Final Review
Final Exam
Final Exam
N/A
N/A
*Note: all of the content described above is subject to change at any time under my
discretion. Any and all amendments will be communicated to the class as soon as possible as
both a class email and vocally in class.