Georgia Institute of Technology School of Chemistry and Biochemistry CHEM 1212K: Freshman Chemistry Section A Spring 2011 Course Components Lecture * MWF 10:05—10:55 am Laboratory once weekly 2 hours and 50 minutes Recitation once weekly 50 minutes Exams W 7:05-­‐7:55 pm Lecture Exams will be held on the following dates: Exam 1 Wednesday, February 2 Exam 2 Wednesday, February 23 Exam 3 Wednesday, March 16 Exam 4 Wednesday, April 13 Final Wednesday, May 4 (11:30am—2:20pm) 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. *Please note that laptops are NOT permitted during lecture or recitation. 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. PRS Transmitter (Strongly suggested) 4. CHEM 1212K, Chemical Principles II, Laboratory Manual 5. Safety goggles and lock for laboratory You will not be permitted to work in lab unless you are wearing safety glasses or goggles 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 Annex stockroom (030). 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 1 Georgia Institute of Technology School of Chemistry and Biochemistry 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 1212 you must also retake the laboratory component of the course. Exams Four 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. Exams will NOT contain laboratory content. 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. Final Exam A three-­‐hour 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 Five crib sheets may be used as described above (one for each exam and one for new material taught between exam four and the 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 CHEM1212@chemistry.gatech.edu with CHEM 1212 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 Points: WebAssign, PRS, and Recitation WebAssign, PRS, 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 165 points are available. Number of Points Per Total Points Assignment Type Assignments Assignment Available from 2 Georgia Institute of Technology WebAssign PRS Recitation TOTAL POINTS 10 TBD 15 School of Chemistry and Biochemistry 9 2, 0, 1 3, 1, 0 Assignment Type 90 30 (adjusted) 45 165 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. You will not have homework due during exam weeks. A change from CHEM 1211K is that homework sets will be released one at a time, two weeks prior to their due dates. PRS: Each PRS question asked in class is valued at 1 point 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 PRS 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 1000 available in the course. 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 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 1
Final Exam 20% or 200 points WebAssign, PRS, and Recitation 10% or 100 points Laboratory2 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) 3 Georgia Institute of Technology School of Chemistry and Biochemistry 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 The recitation session should be used to its full extent. This is a time in which all students can ask question as needed concerning homework and lecture material. Graduate students affiliated with the course will also hold at least two hours of office hours per week for lab and lecture questions. Check the schedule posted at the beginning of the second week of school on the door of College of Computing 50 for tutoring hours. Other Programs The Office of Success Programs provides 1-­‐to-­‐1 tutoring and other academic support programs to all Georgia Tech students. The website for more information, including how to schedule appointments for tutoring, is www.successprograms.gatech.edu. Free, drop-­‐in tutoring for many freshman level (1000 level) courses, including chemistry, is available within several of the freshman experience residence halls. The website for this program is www.lap.gatech.edu. 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. 4 Georgia Institute of Technology School of Chemistry and Biochemistry 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 4404 9736
When registering, 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 also enter your name as it appears on your BuzzCard (ie, William not Will or Katharine not Katy). Also in the event that you register more than once, please contact the administrator at chem1212@chemistry.gatech.edu to correct this issue. Be certain to put CHEM 1212 in the subject line. Schedule of Assignments: Corresponding Point Assignment Chapters Value Homework 1 10, part 1 Deadline January 20 Homework 2 10, part 2 January 27 9 Homework 3 11 February 10 9 Homework 4 February 17 9 Homework 5 12, part 1 12, part 2 13, part 1 Homework 6 13, part 2 March 10 9 Homework 7 14 March 31 9 Homework 8 15, part 1 April 7 9 March 3 9 9 5 Georgia Institute of Technology Homework 9 Homework 10 15, part 2 16, part 1 16, part 2 17 School of Chemistry and Biochemistry April 21 April 30 9 9 Homework Assessment: (1.) Three (3) submissions will be allowed for each problem in the homework sets. (2.) Homework is due at 11:59pm on the date indicated (Thursday except for #10). Questions regarding technical difficulty can be emailed to chem1212@chemistry.gatech.edu for resolution. Be sure to put CHEM 1212 in the subject line. 6 Georgia Institute of Technology School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Tentative Schedule: Monday Wednesday 10-­Jan-­11 Introduction Chemical Equilibria (10) 17-­Jan-­11 Holiday Chemical Equilibria (10) 24-­Jan-­11 Chemical Equilibria (10) Chemical Equilibria (10) 31-­Jan-­11 7-­Feb-­11 14-­Feb-­11 21-­Feb-­11 28-­Feb-­11 7-­Mar-­11 14-­Mar-­11 21-­Mar-­11 28-­Mar-­11 4-­Apr-­11 11-­Apr-­11 18-­Apr-­11 25-­Apr-­11 2-­May-­11 Friday Chemical Equilibria (10) Chemical Equilibria (10) Acids and Bases (11) Exam #1 / Acids and Bases (11) Acids and Bases (11) Acids and Bases (11) Aqueous Equilibria (12) Aqueous Equilibria (12) Aqueous Equilibria (12) Aqueous Equilibria (12) Aqueous Equilibria (12) Exam #2 / Aqueous Equilibria (12) Electrochemistry (13) Electrochemistry (13) Electrochemistry (13) Electrochemistry (13) Chemical Kinetics (14) Chemical Kinetics (14) Chemical Kinetics (14) Chemical Kinetics (14) Exam #3 / The Main Group Chemical Kinetics (14) The Main Group Elements (15) Elements (15) Spring Break Spring Break Spring Break The Main Group The Main Group The Main Group Elements (15) Elements (15) Elements (15) The Main Group The Main Group The Main Group Elements (15) Elements (15) Elements (15) The Main Group Exam #4 / The d-­‐Block (16) Elements (15) The d-­Block (16) The d-­‐Block (16) The d-­‐Block (16) The d-­‐Block (16) Nuclear Chemistry (17) Nuclear Chemistry (17) Nuclear Chemistry (17) FINAL EXAM WEEK Acids and Bases (11) 7