Chemistry 162/102 is the second semester of the introductory chemistry course.
Everyone enrolled for Chemistry 162 (lecture, 3 credits), is automatically enrolled in
Chemistry 102 (recitation, 1 credit). Although there are two course numbers, in practice this will operate as one course. Every student will get the same grade for both Chemistry 162 and
Chemistry 102 .
There are four lectures sections in this course. Two of these lectures sections are given
3 times a week for 55 minutes; two of these lectures sections are given 2 times a week for 80 minutes. Each lecture section has associated with it a 55-minute recitation section. The lecture times are listed below.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1:55 PM - 2:50 PM Beck Auditorium
Recitation sections 1-8, 11, OS Lecturer: Professor Francesca Guerra
Tuesday, Friday 10:55 AM -12:15 PM Hickman 138
Recitation sections 13-16 Lecturer: Professor Ed Tavss
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 11:10 AM - 12:05 PM Hickman 138
Recitation sections 17-20,22,23,25,26,30,31 Lecturer: Professor Donald Siegel
Monday, Wednesday 6:40 PM - 8:00 PM Beck Auditorium
Recitation sections 33-41 Lecturer: Professor Paul Kimmel
All recitation sections will be held online. The online sessions will be held Monday-
Friday, every two hours at noon, 2 PM, 4 PM, 6 PM, 8 PM. There will be two separate sessions at the 8 PM slot. You may take the recitation at any time, logging in with your
Rutgers netID and password.
The online interface will allow you to converse with the instructor by asking questions, either typing them into the computer or asking the questions verbally.
At the end of most recitations, there will be an online quiz. The topics for each quiz will be announced on Sakai during the previous week. Quizzes will be held each week except for the weeks in which there are exams.
Following each recitation section, there will be an online office hour where you can ask further questions of the recitation instructor. This will be in addition to physical office hours, in which you can talk to any recitation instructor face-to-face. The location and times of these physical office hours will be announced on Sakai.

You may attend more than one online recitation section, but the sections must be at least 36 hours apart. You may also retake the quiz during these successive recitation sections. If you retake the quiz, the highest grade will count.
The textbook for this course is Rutgers Custom Edition of “Chemistry: Atoms First , ”
First Edition by Burge and Overby. This is the same textbook as the first semester. Lecture material and suggested homework problems originate in this book. The textbook package purchased from the bookstore includes the code necessary to access the Connect online homework assignments. If you used an online code in the first semester, you can use that same code in the second semester.
You must have a non-programmable scientific calculator for use on exams and quizzes.
A scientific calculator has the capability of handling logarithms and scientific notation.
All communication with students will be done on the Sakai website: www.sakai.rutgers.edu
. You should login to this website using your Rutgers netID and password. If you are registered for the class, you should see a Chem 162/102 Spring 2014 tab on the top of the page. Clicking on that tab will enable you to get to the course homepage, which will have all relevant information.
There will be several tabs on the left side of the course homepage. The “Resources” tab will contain files for the course syllabus and general course information (the file you’re reading now). The syllabus will list the approximate textbook sections and relevant problems for each lecture. Course announcements will be seen on the homepage or using the
“announcements” tab. You should check the Sakai site regularly for course announcements.
Part of your grade will be based on online homework. The online homework will be in two categories: Connect and SmartBook. The SmartBook questions will be shorter and designed for guided learning. Instructions for accessing the online assignment will be posted on Sakai. Each online assignment will have a due date and time, which will be announced on Sakai. There will be ample time to finish the assignment by the due date/time, and no extensions will be given. It is your responsibility to complete the assignments on time. The lowest grade of your online assignment will be dropped when calculating your overall grade.

The syllabus describes what sections of the textbook are to be covered in each lecture.
Since there are less 80-minute lectures than 55-minute lectures, more material is covered in each 80-minute lecture than each 55-minute lecture. However, the total amount of subject matter is the same in all lecture sections.
There is a set of suggested textbook problems associated with each lecture. These problems are not graded, but doing the problems is important to reinforce your understanding of the material. These suggested problems illustrate the types of problem-solving skills that you will see on the exams. Most of the suggested problems are odd-number problems, for which there is an answer in the back of the textbook.
Generally, the more problems you do, the better your understanding of the course concepts. You should feel free to ask any recitation instructor or lecturer about any of these problems.
There will the three hourly exams, a final exam, online homework, and recitation quizzes. Your grade will be based on your overall percentage, with the points allotted as follows:
Three hourly exams
Percentage of total grade
51 (3 x 17)
Final exam 34
Recitation quizzes
Online Connect
Online SmartBook
Total:
5
5
5
100%
There will be recitation quizzes given in the last 10 minutes of each recitation except the weeks of the hourly exams. These quizzes will be based on material covered in the lectures in the week prior to the quiz. The lowest of these quizzes will be dropped. Missed quizzes will count as zeroes.
Your final grade will be based on your overall percentage, with the final scale to be decided at the end of the course. An approximate idea of the grading scale would be:
A >90%
B 80-89%
C 65-79%
D 55-64%
F <55%
A grade of <35% on the final exam will result in an automatic F for a final grade.

There will be a special grading policy on the final exam. This exam will be broken into four designated sections: material from exam I, material from exam II, material from exam
III, and material from the end of the semester not covered on the hourly exams.
If a student scores higher on one or more of the final exam sections than on the corresponding hourly exam, then a substitution procedure becomes effective. In this substitution procedure, one (and only one) of the hourly exam scores is substituted for the higher final exam section score, and that substitution will be automatically chosen to be the one that benefits most the student’s final grade (i.e., the final exam score that has the greatest improvement relative to the hourly exam score). If a student misses an hourly exam and has a valid acceptable reason, that student will be assigned a temporary zero for that exam, and the final exam questions associated with that hourly exam will be substituted for the missed exam. This will take the place of any makeup exams, which are not given.
Example: A student gets 76, 60, 80 on the first three hourly exams, and gets percentages of 80, 78, 82 on the first three sections of the final exam. The biggest increase is the 2 nd exam—so that student would get a 78 substituted for 60 on the 2 nd exam.
If a student misses an hourly exam without a valid acceptable reason, the zero on that exam will remain. Valid reasons for absences include: illness or injury, severe weather,
Rutgers sponsored activity. In the case of Rutgers sponsored activities, students may apply to take a conflict exam at a different time. Information on applying for the conflict exam will be available on Sakai. Invalid reasons for absences include: family or other personal events, non-Rutgers activities.
If you are absent for one of the 3 hourly exams, you should fill out a self-reported absence form, available at sims.rutgers.edu/ssra. Assuming the reason is acceptable, you will get a temporary zero on the exam, to be substituted later on the appropriate section of the final exam, as described above.
The second semester, Chemistry 162, is generally considered to be more difficult than the first semester. In Chemistry 162, we deal with subject matter that is likely to be less familiar to students based on their high school background. These areas of study include kinetics, thermodynamics, equilibrium, electrochemistry. Each of these areas has a good deal of mathematical problem solving, including the use of logarithms.

Chemistry is a cumulative discipline. This means that the principles learned in the first semester are used in the second semester—the subject builds on an increasingly broad foundation. If you don’t understand the foundation, the course will become increasingly difficult to manage. The foundation includes chemical bonding, stoichiometry, thermochemistry, intermolecular forces. In the second semester, we are assuming that students have achieved competency in these and other areas previously learned.
Success in chemistry depends on problem-solving ability and conceptual understanding. Each lecture has problems assigned from the textbook which are associated with the material of that lecture. Students should work these problems regularly and not fall behind. Do not wait for the test to do the assigned problems—this will be too late.
The material for this course is copyrighted and may not be posted on any other web site without permission. Any lecture notes or supplementary material posted on Sakai is for your own use only. Any violation of this policy will be treated as an academic integrity violation.
Office hours for all lecturers and recitation instructors will be posted on the
Resources tab of Sakai by the end of the first week of class. You can feel free to go to the office hour of any lecturer or recitation instructor, not necessarily the ones in your section.
All lecturers and recitation instructors are committed to help you achieve success in the class.
You will find the use of office hours more helpful if you come in with specific questions, not just a vague statement of not understanding. You should do your part in trying your best to do the assigned problems, and if you have trouble, looking in the textbook for examples, which are often similar to the assignments. Try to focus on the types of problems or concepts which are unclear, and come into office hours with specific questions about these problem areas.
Help is also available at the Rutgers Learning Center (rlc.rutgers.edu) and Math
Science Learning Centers (mslc.rutgers.edu). Check the appropriate websites for hours, location, and phone numbers.

Course Coordinator
Darrin York york@biomaps.rutgers.edu
Course Administrator and Lecturer
Paul Kimmel pkimmel@rutgers.edu
Lecturers
Francesca Guerra fguerra@biomaps.rutgers.edu
Donald Siegel donald.siegel@rutgers.edu
Ed Tavss edtavss@aol.com