CHEMISTRY 130
General Chemistry: Macroscopic Investigations and Reaction Principles
Winter 2013 Syllabus
Chemistry 130 is a general introduction to the principles of chemistry. Chemistry 130 meets as lectures
and discussion sections only. General Chemistry laboratory is a separate course (Chemistry 125) which
is recommended to be taken concurrently but does not need to be - it can be taken in a later term. Some
entering students have had the equivalent of Chemistry 130 in high school and proceed directly to
Chemistry 210. The usual requirement for this is advanced placement (AP) 4 or 5 credit.
In Chemistry 130 you will attend lectures three times per week. The lecture sections are listed
below. In addition, you will meet once per week in a discussion class, lead by a graduate student
instructor (GSI), who provides individual help with assignments. Attendance at lectures is not
mandatory, but attendance at discussions is. Weekly quizzes (10 minutes long) will be given in
discussions.
unique
Lecturer
name
Office
Section
Time
Room
Jadwiga Sipowska
dotie
3545 Chem
Course Coordinator
100
9-10
1210
400
11-12
1200
Julie Biteen
jsbiteen
2533 Chem
200
11-12
1800
Required Course Materials
1. Textbook and Online Homework
The required textbook for CHEM 130 is Ebbing/Gammon, Chemistry, 9th ed., Custom Version 1st ed.
for the University of Michigan. It is available ONLY at the Ann Arbor campus bookstores as a package
(ISBN 9781285252209) that includes the textbook and the access code to the online homework.
Alternatively, an e-book 10th ed.(that comes with access to online homework) can be purchased directly
from the publisher’s website: http://www.cengagebrain.com/micro/umichchem130.
The 8th edition or a regular 9th edition of the textbook are acceptable, but you will need to purchase
separately the access to the online homework at http://www.cengagebrain.com/micro/umichchem130.
DO NOT purchase homework codes online from other sources. They will not allow you to register
for this class.
2. i>clicker
The i>clicker Audience Response System (clickers) will be used regularly in this class. i>clicker devices
are available for purchase from the Computer Showcase in the Michigan Union and in Pierpont
Commons.
3. Non-Programmable Scientific Calculator
For exams and quizzes, you will need a non-programmable scientific calculator. Programmable
calculators such as graphing calculators or cell phones are not allowed. TI 80 or above is unacceptable.
CTools (https://ctools.umich.edu/). The CTools web site contains information related to individual
courses and sections at the University of Michigan. The CTools site for Chem 130 is used by your
lecturer to post course-related material of all kinds, including supplemental information, information
about tests and quizzes, assignments, lectures, and your grades. You should check CTools often and are
responsible for ensuring that your grades are being reflected accurately.
The Science Learning Center (SLC). The SLC is located just outside Chem 1800 (the large lecture
hall) in the mezzanine of the Atrium of the Chemistry Building. The SLC contains many resources to
help you learn chemistry. It is where the GSIs hold office hours and where the Peer-study groups meet
(see below).
Office Hours of GSIs. Chem 130 GSIs hold scheduled office hours in the SLC, where they can
provide one-on-one help to Chem 130 students. You can get help from any Chem 130 GSI at office
hours (it does not have to be the GSI who leads your discussion section). The schedule of office hours
will be posted in the SLC and on the CTools website a week or two into the semester.
Peer-study Groups. You can sign up for peer-study groups, in which small groups of your classmates,
led by an upper-class undergraduate student, discuss the course material. These groups can be
extremely effective aids in helping you to master course material. They are organized through the
Science Learning Center (http://www.umich.edu/~slc/)
Grading Policy. Your grade will be determined based on your performance on two one-hour exams, the
final exam, 10 best quizzes, and 10 best homework assignments. Quiz grades will be normalized
according to the average of midterm exams for the discussion sections. Class attendance and
participation are an important part of learning in any course, and in this class they will be rewarded with
‘extra’ points towards your final grade. The weighted points are assigned as follows:
2 hour exams (100 pts each)
200 pts
44 % (22% per exam)
Final exam
200 pts
26 %
10 quizzes (10 pts each)
100 pts
20%
10 homework assignments (1% each)
10 %
------------------------------------------------------------------------------Total:
100%
Class attendance and participation
(up to 4% extra credit)
Comments about the letter grade:
The final letter grades will be assigned based on the total percentage of points you earn for all
components of the course. As a guide, the following minimum % will guarantee you a letter
grade as follows:
90.00% - A
70.00% - B50.00% - D+
85.00% - A65.00% - C+
45.00% - D
80.00% - B+
60.00% - C
40.00% - D75.00% - B
55.00% - C<40.00% - E
Chemistry 130 is not graded on a curve.
Any course grade appeal must be made by the student to the instructor within the first fifteen University
business days of the first full term following the term in which a disputed grade is issued.
Exams. There are NO MAKE-UP EXAMS.
A strict policy in the large courses prohibits us from offering alternate exams other than at
different times on the date of the regularly scheduled exam.
There are a number of reasons for this policy, but fairness to all students, past and
present, is a primary concern. For reasons of exam security we cannot give exams
before or after the date of the regularly scheduled exam. It also would be unfair for us to write a second
makeup exam, as no two exams are identical, so any makeup exam would either be easier (unfair to the
other students in the course) or more difficult (unfair to you) than the standard exam.
Midterm exams are scheduled from 6:00 to 8:00 PM on Monday evenings. These are 1.5 hours long.
The additional 30 minutes are for filling in scantron exam forms, signing the course roster, and
collecting exams.
The final exam is 2 hours long and starts promptly at 8 AM. Students with a final exam conflict will
take an alternate final exam on the same day from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM.
The exam dates are:
Exam 1: Monday February 18th from 6-8 PM
Exam 2: Monday April 8th from 6-8 PM
Final Exam: Monday April 29th from 8:00
to 10:00 AM
Exams will cover the following chapters:
Exam 1: chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.1-5.5, 6.1-6.8
Exam 2: chapters 7, 8.1-8.6, 9, 10, 11.1-11.3, 11.5, 11.6.
Final Exam: approximately 65% cumulative and 35% chapters 14 and 15.
Quizzes. A total of 12 weekly 10-minute quizzes (worth 10 points each) will be given during
discussion. The two lowest quiz scores will be dropped. These two extra quizzes are meant to cover for
absences due to the short illness (up to 2 consecutive discussion meetings) or any personal reasons for
which you might miss the discussion. There are NO MAKE-UP QUIZZES. A detailed quiz policy will
be available on CTools the first day of class.
ATTENTION:
Students with disabilities who need special exam/quiz arrangements should:
1. Contact the Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) office (located at G-664 Haven Hall) to
obtain the SSD form with recommended accommodations.
2. Place a copy of the SSD form in the CHM 130 mailbox located in room Chem 1416.
3. Send an e-mail to the course administrator, Aaron White (amwhi@umich.edu) confirming that
the form is already in the mailbox.
Deadline: Monday, January 21st by 5:00 PM
4. If the allocated 10 min for discussion quizzes is not sufficient, you might take your quizzes at the
Testing Accommodation Center, TAC, located at the Modern Languages Building,
MLB, room B 129.
5. If you choose to take quizzes at the TAC you must talk in person with your GSI who will help
you to make necessary arrangements with the TAC.
Online Homework. We will be using the OWL (Online Web Learning) system for homework
assignments. A total of 13 GRADED homework sets (chapters 1-10, 11, 14, and 15) will be assigned.
Each will be worth 1%. The three lowest OWL scores will be dropped. There are no make-up homework
assignments, regardless of what the reason is that you missed the submission deadline
Exam/Quiz Conflict. Students who have any of the conflicts listed below can take the alternate exams
that are offered on the day of the regularly scheduled exams, usually right before the regularly scheduled
exam.
1. religious holiday
2. course conflict
3. official sport events (not practices or club sport events)
An event is only considered a conflict if it is at the same time or overlaps with the exam time. Personal
scheduling conflicts (flights home, club meetings, work, sport practice, etc.) are not considered. We will
try our best to accommodate your conflict, but we cannot guarantee that we can find an alternate exam
time that works for all students. Thus, please rearrange your own schedule as best as you can. Detailed
procedures for alternate exam requests will be posted on Ctools during the second week of classes.
Illness or other emergency.
Sometimes students miss exams because of illness or other emergencies. If you are ill for an
exam, e-mail your instructor immediately , visit the Health Service and ask your doctor for a note that
includes the date, your name, and the fact that you were ill and recommended to stay in bed (not that
you just visited the UHS) the day of the exam. For the midterm exams, there are no make-ups. If you
miss the exam and have an acceptable excuse, a grade for this exam will be assigned at the end of the
term: the grade will be an average of the midterm exam you took and the final exam. Documents
confirming illness should be given to the course administrator, Aaron White, not to anybody else.
You will need to contact him directly (amwhi@umich.edu). If you miss the final exam due to illness,
you will receive a course grade “I”, incomplete, and you will take the final exam at the end of the Fall
2013 semester.
The two “dropped” quizzes and three OWL assignments are to be used in case of illness and/or
other emergencies that prevent students from taking the quiz or submitting homework. You may ONLY
request to take a make-up quiz if you miss more than two quizzes and have documented, acceptable
excuses.
Websites:
General web page for CTools: https://ctools.umich.edu/
Science Learning Center: http://www.umich.edu/~slc
Textbook web page:
http://college.cengage.com/chemistry/general/ebbing/general_chem/9e/student_home.html
OWL: http://www.cengage.com/owl
Academic Integrity.
There is a clear expectation that Chemistry 130 students will perform with honor and integrity. Students
are referred to the LSA policy on academic integrity available online at
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/academicintegrity/index.html. Any student suspected of cheating will be
referred to the Assistant Dean’s Office. For students found guilty of cheating on quizzes or exams, a
grade of zero will be assigned. That score will not be dropped at the end of the term, and the student
will forfeit all extra credit.
Course Policies:
- The lecture room is a cell-phone free zone.
- You do not need your laptop during lecture. If you choose to use it during the lecture, you will be
required to sit at the back of the lecture room to minimize distraction to your peers. Bring printed
copies of lecture notes to class.
- Quiz, Homework, and Exam policies are posted on CTools in the “Additional Resources” folder;
you are required to know them.
Tentative schedule of topics to be covered in lecture, assigned readings It is recommended that you
read each assigned chapter before coming to lecture. The lectures will provide a broader perspective
and help you understand difficult material.
Dates
01/09-01/11
01/14-01/18
01/21
01/23-01/28
01/30-02/04
02/06-02/08
02/11-02/15
02/18
02/18
02/20-02/25
02/27-03/01
03/04-03/08
03/11
03/13-03/20
03/22-03/29
Subjects
matter classification, measurement, introduction to the
Periodic Table, physical, chemical changes/properties
structure of atom, nuclide symbols, atomic weights, atomic
masses, nomenclature, balancing equations
Martin Luther King Day
mass relationships, stoichiometry, the mole, empirical and
molecular formulas, Avogadro's number, percentage
composition, yields
reactions in aqueous solutions, electrolytes, molecular and
ionic equations, precipitation reactions, acid-base and redox
reactions, oxidation numbers, molarity, titrations,
gravimetric and volumetric analysis
behavior of gases, ideal gas law
thermochemistry, enthalpy, standard enthalpies, Hess's
law, calorimetry, thermochemical equations
Catch up, review
Exam 1 6:00 PM
quantum theory, light, waves, photons, the Bohr theory,
quantum mechanics, quantum numbers, atomic orbitals
electron spin, writing electron configurations, orbital
diagrams of atoms
Spring Break
periodic properties
ionic versus covalent bonds, lattice energy, Lewis
structures, resonance,
formal charge, bond polarity, bond order, bond length,
bond energy
molecular geometry, VSEPR, dipole moment, multiple
bonding, molecular orbitals
Reading
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
5.1-5.5
Chapter 6:
6.1–6.8
Chapter 7
Chapter 8:
8.1-8.4
8.5-8.6
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
04/01-04/05
phase transitions, vapor pressure, phase diagrams,
intermolecular forces, solids
04/08
04/08
04/10-04/15
Catch up and review
Exam 2 6:00 PM
chemical equilibrium, K c and K p , Q P , Q C , equilibrium
concentrations, LeChatelier's principle
acid base theories, relative strengths, molecular structure
and acid strength, self-ionization of water, pH, pOH
Catch up, review
Final Exam 8:00-10:00 AM
04/17-04/19
04/22
04/29
Chapter 11:
11.1-11.3, 11.5,
11.6
Chapter 14
Chapter 15