Georgia Institute of Technology School of Chemistry and Biochemistry CHEM 1211K: Chemical Principles I Course Components Lecture 1,2 MWF 10:05—10:55 am Chem Annex 016 Laboratory once weekly 2 hours and 50 minutes by section 1
Recitation once weekly 50 minutes by section Exams W 7:05-­‐7:55 pm Chem Annex 016 1
Laptops are NOT permitted during lecture at any time or during recitation with the exception of the first week. 2
You will be expected to participate actively in class discussions and group work. Lecture Exams will be held on the following dates: Exam 1 Wednesday, September 14 Fundamentals and most of Ch 1 Exam 2 Wednesday, October 5 Chs 1, 2 and most of 3 Exam 3 Wednesday, October 26 Chs 3, 4, and the beginning of 5 Exam 4 Wednesday, November 16 Chs 5, 7, and the beginning of 8 Final Friday, December 16 Cumulative Please plan your schedule accordingly for the 4 mid-­‐term exams and final exam. Early final exams will NOT be given to accommodate travel schedules. Reviews for exams will be held on the following dates: Exam Reviews M before each exam 6:00-­‐8:00 pm Chem Annex 017 Final Exam Review W during finals week 7:00-­‐9:00 pm Chem Annex 017 Required Course Materials 1. Atkins and Jones, Chemical Principle: The Quest for Insight, 5th ed, Freeman, New York, New York, 2010. 2. WebAssignTM Access Code 3. Turning Technologies Personal Response Transmitter (Strongly suggested) 4. CHEM 1211/1212 Laboratory Manual 5. 100% cotton lab coat 6. Laboratory notebook with perforated pages and carbonless copy. You will not be permitted to work in lab unless you are wearing safety glasses (provided) or goggles, long paints or a floor-­‐length skirt (no bare skin below the waste), a lab coat, and closed shoes. You should maintain a balance of at least $30 on your Buzz Card so that you can pay for any fees you might incur in lab (breaking glassware, renting safety goggles, etc). Payment will be made at the chemistry stockroom (Clough Commons 578). Grading Policies Laboratory You must pass Laboratory to pass the overall course. Teaching Assistants will have the responsibility for establishing laboratory grades. Students are graded on pre-­‐lab quizzes, formal lab reports, summary reports, report accuracy, lab technique and attitude, and a final lab practicum exam. A grade of 120 points (60%) or better in the lab is considered passing. Grades in the 50-­‐59% range may be considered under unusual and exceptional circumstance. Below 55% the extenuating circumstances must be documented. Under no circumstances will lower laboratory grades be considered. Your teaching assistant may specify that students work in pairs or in larger groups for certain experiments. Whether this is the case or not, all reports must be prepared independently by each student. If you fail CHEM 1211, you must also retake the laboratory component of the course. 1 Georgia Institute of Technology School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Exams Four fifty minute closed-­‐book exams will be given during the semester. Please see the course schedule for more details on Exam content. Material on exams may be taken from assigned reading, homework, lecture material, or problems similar to those at the end of each chapter in the course text. Final Exam A two hour and fifty minute final exam will be given at the time and place determined for this course by standard Georgia Tech procedures. See the Registrar’s official calendar site for the latest schedule: http://www.registrar.gatech.edu/students/calendar.php Crib Sheets One 8.5 x 11 crib sheet will be permitted for use on each of the four intermediate exams. Only one side of the crib sheet may be used, and they must be handwritten. Your name and GTID should be written on the back of each crib sheet. Five crib sheets may be used for the final exam as described above – one for each of the previous exams plus an additional one for new material on the final. All of your crib sheets will be collected with your final exam. Grade Change Re-­‐grades of hour exams must be requested within one week of the date that the graded exams are returned to students. Please email questions to CHEM1211@chemistry.gatech.edu with CHEM 1211 in the subject line. Make-­‐up Exams Make-­‐up exams will only be given for valid excused absences. If a student has a valid excuse for missing an exam, either a make-­‐up exam will be given within 24 hours or his/her grade for that exam may be calculated from his/her performance on that part of the final exam that covers topics from the missed exam. A Grade Improvement Plan will be described during the semester but it will only apply to those having taking prior exams or those with valid excuses. Daily (Bucket) Points: WebAssign, Clickers, Exam Wrappers, and Recitation WebAssign, clickers, exam wrappers, and recitation comprise a total of 10% (100 points) of your overall course grade, and you may accumulate these points through various combinations of the three categories. An additional of 1% of your final grade (10 points) may be accrued as bonus points. Approximately 180 points are available. Number of Points Per Total Points Available Assignment Type Assignments Assignment from Assignment Type WebAssign 10 9 90 Clickers TBD 2, 0, 1 30 (adjusted) Recitation 14 3, 1, 0 42 Exam Wrappers 4 5 20 TOTAL POINTS 182 WebAssign: There are 10 assignments valued at 9 points each for a total of 90 possible points. Each assignment has a due date, and there are no extensions available. Clickers: Each clicker question asked in class is valued at 1 points for any answer and 2 points for a correct answer. There are no make-­‐up opportunities. At the end of the semester, the points earned will be normalized to 30. For example: If a total of 50 clicker questions are offered over the course of the semester, then there are 100 possible points. If you earn 75 of these points, you have 75/100 = 0.75 of the points possible. 0.75 x 30 = 22.5, and you have earned 22.5 points of the 110 available in the "bucket." 2 Georgia Institute of Technology School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Recitation: Attendance and participation in recitation is worth 3 points per sessions. 3 points = attendance for the full session with participation 1 point = attendance with inadequate participation 0 points = no attendance Exam Wrappers: After each exam, an Exam Wrap-­‐up assignment will be passed out when your exams are returned. These assignments are take-­‐home and due in the next class period after your exams are returned. The Exam Wrap-­‐ups will be turned back to you before the next exam so that you can use your reflections to prepare. Exam Wrap-­‐ups are worth 5 points each, for a total of 20 points in the bucket. Course Grades (out of 1000 possible points) Exam 1 12.5% or 125 points Exam 2 12.5% or 125 points Exam 3 12.5% or 125 points Exam 4 12.5% or 125 points Final Exam1 20% or 200 points WebAssign, PRS, and Recitation 10% or 100 points 2
Laboratory 20% or 200 points 1
All students must take the final exam in a 1000 level course to receive credit. An F will be assigned if a student misses the final exam without a documented excuse. 2
Students earning below 60% in lab will receive an automatic F for the semester and will be required to repeat both the lecture and the laboratory component. There are no exceptions to this rule. Grading Scale A Excellent 90.1 – 100% (901—1000 points) B Good 80.1 – 90.0% (801—900 points) C Average 70.1 – 80.0% (701—800 points) D Fair 60.1 – 70.0% (601—700 points) F Failing Less than 60.0% (less than 600 points) OR Less than a 60% in laboratory We reserve the right to adjust this scale, but the cut-­‐offs would only be lowered so that any adjustment will only benefit students. We do not guarantee any adjustments, and any that are made will be at the end of the semester after all grades are calculated. Grade Improvement Plan The final exam will be composed of five sections with the first four sections representing material from exams 1 – 4, respectively. The remaining section will cover material after exam 4. If you earn higher on a given section than you did on the corresponding exam, that percentage will replace the original score. For example, if a student earns a 75% on exam 1 and a 95% on section 1 of the final exam, the 95% will be used in the grade calculation. All 4 original exam scores may be replaced with the Grade Improvement Plan. You must have attempted the original individual exam or have a written excuse absence. Tutoring There are many options available for getting help with this course—all of them free! Each offers a somewhat different focus, and we urge you to take advantage of as many of them as you need! More information on each resource can be found at www.chemistry.gatech.edu/freshmanprogram 3 Georgia Institute of Technology •
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School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Recitation o This is a time in which all students can ask question as needed concerning homework and lecture material. Teaching Assistant (TA) Office Hours o Each teaching assistant graduate student affiliated with the course will hold at least two hours of office hours per week for lab and lecture questions in Clough Commons 280. o TA office hours schedule: http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/freshmanprogram Center for Academic Success (http://success.gatech.edu/tutoring) o 1-­‐to-­‐1 tutoring (one hour free per week for all 1000 level courses on campus) o PLUS (peer-­‐led undergraduate study) Residence Life's Learning Assistance Program (http://www.housing.gatech.edu/academicservices/lap.cfm) o Drop-­‐in tutoring for many 1000 level courses Office of Minority Education Development (OMED) (http://www.omed.gatech.edu/redux/) o Group study sessions o Tutoring programs ADAPTS Student learning disabilities documented through this department will be honored as detailed to the instructor. Please inform the instructor and lab coordinator within the first week of the course or as soon as possible. Honor Code All students are expected to comply with the honor code regulations set forth by this institution. All violations of the honor code will be reported to the office of student affairs. Violations of the honor code can result in a zero on the particular assignment, a letter grade reduction, and can in some instances, result in expulsion from the institution. See http://www.honor.gatech.edu/ for details. Course Webpage(s) Information of interest to students will be posted on the course webpage: http://tsquare.gatech.edu Separate T-­‐square sites are used for lecture and lab components. Students should consult the webpage at frequent intervals throughout the semester. Post-­‐Lecture homework problems can be accessed directly via the following address: https://www.webassign.net/login.html The access code that was purchased with the textbook bundle or a standalone access code (purchased through the website) will be needed. If you purchased an e-­‐book, you will need to purchase a standalone code. The access codes are approximately $35. In addition, for the self-­‐registration process, the unique class key below will be needed to register you for the appropriate section. Class Key: gatech xxxx xxxx When registering for WebAssign, please • Make sure you enter your GT ID number (902xxx) with no spaces. This is your unique identifier that will be used to pull your final marks at the end of the term. • Please use your full name exactly as it appears on your Student ID (for example, Katherine not Katie). • In the event that you register more than once, please contact the administrator at CHEM1211@chemistry.gatech.edu to correct this issue. Be certain to put CHEM 1211 in the subject line. Schedule of Assignments: 4 Georgia Institute of Technology Assignment School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Corresponding Chapters Deadline Point Value Homework 1 Fundamentals September 1 9 Homework 2 Fundamentals and Ch 1 September 22 9 Homework 3 Chs 1 & 2 September 29 9 Homework 4 Chs 2 & 3 October 13 9 Homework 5 Chs 3 & 4 October 20 9 Homework 6 Chs 4 & 5 November 3 9 Homework 7 Chs 5 & 7 November 10 9 Homework 8 Ch 7 November 17 9 Homework 9 Ch 8 December 1 9 Homework 10 Ch 9 December 8 9 Homework Assessment: 1. Five (5) submissions will be allowed for each problem in the homework sets. 2. Homework is due at 11:59pm on the date indicated. 3. Significant figures DO count! Questions regarding technical difficulty can be emailed to CHEM1211@chemistry.gatech.edu for resolution. Be sure to put CHEM 1211 in the subject line.
5 Georgia Institute of Technology School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Tentative Lecture Schedule: Week Of Monday Wednesday Friday August 22 Introduction Fundamentals Fundamentals August 29 Fundamentals Fundamentals Fundamentals September 5 Holiday Quantum (1) Quantum (1) September 12 September 19 Quantum (1) Chemical Bonds (2) Exam #1 / Quantum (1) Chemical Bonds (2) September 26 Chemical Bonds (2) Molecular Shape (3) October 3 Molecular Shape (3) Exam #2 / Molecular Shapes (3) October 10 Molecular Shapes (3) Gases (4) Gases (4) Exam #3 / Liquids and Solids (5) Liquids and Solids (5) Thermo: First Law (7) Study Skills Chemical Bonds (2) Molecular Shape (3) (Progress reports come out) Molecular Shapes (3) Gases (4) (Last day to withdrawal from class) Liquids and Solids (5) Liquids and Solids (5) Thermo: First Law (7) Thermo: First Law (7) Exam #4 / Thermo: 2nd Law (8) Thermo: Second Law (8) Thermo: 2nd Law (8) Thermo: Second Law (8) Holiday Physical Equilibria (9) Physical Equilibria (9) Physical Equilibria (9) October 17 October 24 October 31 November 7 Holiday Liquids and Solids (5) Liquids and Solids (5) Thermo: First Law (7) Thermo: First Law (7) / November 14 Thermo: Second Law (8) November 21 Thermo: Second Law (8) November 28 Thermo: Second Law (8) December 5 Physical Equilibria (9) (Dead Week) 6