Lake Superior State University
School of Environmental and Physical Sciences
Department of Chemistry
GENERAL CHEMISTRY II
CH 116, FALL 2004
Dr. David Myton Chemistry Office: CRW 311 Phone: 2341
School of Education Office: STH Phone x2349 email dmyton@LSSU.edu
Fall Office Hours: M 1-4:30, W 8:30-11, and F 8:30-12 by appointment (call x2811) in STH 324.
Drop-in Office Hours Thursday CRW 311 1-3:30 pm
Course Description: CH 116 General Chemistry II (4 semester credits)
General Chemistry is the second semester of the university level course for students pursuing
further study in science. This course continues to emphasize the integration of concepts and
applications with factual information and to stress approaches to both conceptual and numerical
problem solving in both lecture and laboratory. Throughout the course, chemistry will be used to
understand everyday phenomena, to evaluate the risks and benefits environmental issues, and be
related to other disciplines.
Prerequisite:
CH115 General Chemistry I with a grade of C or better. (This course with its associated
laboratory has been approved to meet the General Education science requirements.)
Access to the course websites found at http://webcta.lssu.edu and at
http://education.lssu.edu/myton
Textbooks:
Lecture: CHEMISTRY, 7th Edition. Chang, McGraw-Hill Publishing, 2002.
Lab: Modular Chemistry Laboratory activities from Chemical Education Resources.
Other Required Materials:
State Council of State Science Supervisors:
http://www.csss-science.org/safety.shtml
http://www.csss-science.org/downloads/scisafe.pdf
 Homework: ChemSkill Builder: Personalized Problem-Sets in General Chemistry. Version 6.3
for Windows, CSB/Win CD set or 3-Disk set. James Spain and Harold Peters Disk or Online
 Chemical Splash Goggles, must be indirectly vented with plugs INSTALLED
 A NON-PROGRAMMABLE SCIENTIFIC CALCULATOR is required for exams
Optional: [Just for the record the following items are NOT optional: Reading the chapter, studying
the example exercises, and working through the chapter problems, handouts, homework, and availing
yourself of the assistance and support of the instructor.] What is optional is if you want a laboratory
apron and gloves, Student Study Guide, Student Solution Manual or a new titanium mechanical pencil.
Topics Covered: (Expanded course objectives are available in a separate document for each chapter)
 Chang Ch 12: Solutions and their Behavior
CSB Homework: Units 15.1 - 15.5 inclusive
Learning Objective: Be able to calculate solution concentrations in units of molarity, molality
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and weight percent, calculate changes in colligative properties, and use enthalpy and
LeChatelier's principle to explain the behavior of solutions and gases.
Chang Ch 13: Chemical Kinetics
CSB Homework: Units 16.1 - 16.6 inclusive
Learning Objective: Be able to use experimental data to calculate and manipulate rate
expresions for chemical reactions including changes in concentration and time. Use collision
and kinetic theories to explain chemical kinetics.
Chang Ch 14: Chemical Equilibria
CSB Homework: Units 17.1 - 17.5 inclusive
Learning Objective: Be able to use the equilibrium constant expression to analyze chemical
systems and calculate the concentrations involving products and reactants, including the
application of LeChatelier's principle in equilibrium systems.
Chang Ch 15: Acids and Bases
CSB Homework: Units 18.1 - 18.5 inclusive
Learning Objective: Be able to calculate the concentrations and pH of solutions of weak acids
and bases using equilibrium constant expressions, and identify acids/bases and their conjugates.
Chang Ch 16a: Equilibria with More Acids and Bases
CSB Homework: Units 19.1 - 19.5 inclusive
Learning Objective: Be able to solve for the pH of a buffered system as well as the
concentrations of chemical species at any point in an acid/base titration
Chang Ch 16b: Precipitation Reactions
CSB Homework: Units 20.1 - 20.5 inclusive
Learning Objective: Be able to use the solubility product constant expression to calculate the
concentration of species at equilibrium, identify separation procedures using solubility, and solve
common-ion problems.
Chang Ch 17: Chemistry in the Atmosphere
Chang Ch 18: Entropy, Free Energy & Equilibrium
CSB Homework: Units 21.1 - 21.5 inclusive
Learning Objective: Be able to calculate thermodynamic values from chemical systems
including H, S and G, using them to predict the direction of chemical change.
Chang Ch 19: Electrochemistry
CSB Homework: Units 10.4 - 10.6 and 22.1 - 22.5 inclusive
Learning Objective: Be able to identify chemical oxidation and reduction, balance redox
reactions and calculate cell potentials for standard and nonstandard conditions, and relate Gibbs
Free Energy to cell potentials and equilibrium constants
Chang Ch 23: Nuclear Chemistry
CSB Homework: Units 23.1 - 23.4 inclusive
Learning Objective: Be able to write and balance equations for nuclear reactions, calculate halflives for nuclear decay reactions
Other:
Class/Laboratory Schedule: Class meets fifty minutes three times a week plus a 2-hour final
during finals week, Lab meets two hours and fifty minutes each week through a
14 week semester. During the summer session times will vary, and course
content is accelerated, but total class and laboratory time remains the same.
This course serves as prerequisite to the following courses: CH220 Survey of Organic
Chemistry, CH225 Organic Chemistry I, CH231 Quantitative Analysis, CH361
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Physical Chemistry I, BL204 Microbiology, BL220 Genetics, BL315 Plant
Physiology, BL330 Animal Physiology, BL345 Limnology
Course Coordinators: Myton
Grading: Course grades will be derived from Assessments (not less than 80%) and Homework and Lab
(up to 10% each). The laboratory work is a mandatory component for the course, a passing
grade in the lab must be achieved to receive a passing grade in the course. Grading is
progressive with later tests whose content is cumulative for the entire course, weighted more than
earlier tests. Attendance at all class sessions is strongly advised, graded quizzes and in-class
“Teamwork” assignments will be collected regularly for grading and attendance. Scantron forms
and #2 pencil are required for each major test/exam. Missed exams cannot be retaken except in
emergency or extenuating circumstances, schedule an early exam if an approved absence is
unavoidable. The final cumulative exam is required. No grades are dropped or replaced, no
extra credit is available. Full credit is available only to work completed by the assigned
completion date, late work may be discounted or rejected. Course grades are broadly based on a
90% = A-, 80%= B-, 70% = C- scale referenced to an assigned maximum value.
Exams: Each student is advised to bring a personal calculation aid with them to every class, laboratory
and test/examination (abacus, slide rule or calculator) - these cannot be shared during tests and
should be capable of manipulating scientific notation, logarithms and exponents. Only NONPROGRAMMABLE SCIENTIFIC CALCULATORS may be used during tests, quizzes
and examinations.
Exam Dates: See course schedule – attached. Also, check the course website for additional information:
http://webcta.lssu.edu You must have a university assigned password to initially login, whereupon you
may enter your own unique password.
Homework: Success in General Chemistry is undeniably linked to the amount of time invested in
learning the material and problem solving. In order to facilitate your mastery of chemical
problem solving this course will use the CHEM-SKILL-BILDER system for the assignment of
graded homework. This system provides you with immediate assessment of your performance,
the opportunity to improve your homework grade, and a record of personal credit for time
invested and work completed. Homework sets are due one day before the date of the exam
covering that material from the chapters covered on that test - for example if the first test covers
chapters 1 & 2 you are expected to have completed the disk sections assigned to chapters 1 and 2.
Credit will be based on the number of sections completed at a mastery level of 80 percent or
higher (No credit will be given for a unit 79.99% correct). Mastery level of 80% will
contribute 5% to your final grade, above 85% - 10%, above 90% - 15% and above 95% - 20% to
your final grade.
You are advised review the instructions contained in the package, to protect against computer
viruses, and to make your own personal backup copy of your disk (especially the file studata.dat),
and to print out the screen showing your progress after each session as extra insurance. Again,
you will need to exercise NORMAL care to avoid bending the diskette, contracting a damaging
computer virus, or spilling cheese dip onto your disk.
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NOTE: additional graded homework may be assigned in class, with due date given at the time of
the assignment. You might expect a graded quiz on the day the homework is due.
The Fine Print:
The LSSU Catalog/Calendar contains a more complete description of your rights and responsibilities as a member of the
University community. In the Catalog/Calendar you will find a complete statement of our institutional purpose, definitions of
university terminology, our Equal Opportunity policy, and especially the ACADEMIC POLICIES. Attendance: I expect you to
attend and participate in class as a valuable and contributing member in the community of learners of which the course is
comprised. Not every contingency leading to an excusable absence can be anticipated, and an occasional absence may
reasonably be anticipated which requires special consideration. However, extended absences, even for valid reasons, preclude
the student’s full and active participation in the course, in meeting the full objectives of the course and may lead to a non-passing
or incomplete grade – even when other work is completed satisfactorily. NOTICE: A failing grade (F) can be assigned to
students who commit acts of academic dishonesty. At the instructor’s discretion this grade may be for the assignment or the
entire course depending on the nature and severity of the offense. Academic dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating
(the intentional use or attempted use of unauthorized materials, information or study aids in any academic exercise) , fabricating
(intentional or unauthorized falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise), facilitating
academic dishonesty (Intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another violate any provisions of this code), or
plagiarism (intentionally or knowingly representing the words or ideas of another as one’s own in any academic exercise).
Definitions from the Code of Academic Integrity, University of Maryland at College Park. This syllabus is not intended to be a
comprehensive statement, please be aware that other academic policies and procedures are outlined in the catalog and they apply
to you as well. The course syllabus represents the best estimate and projection of course content, scope and sequence. In the case
of extenuating circumstances, changes in enrollment, flood, fire or tornado, other Acts of God, by mutual consent, or at the
discretion of the instructor, the course and lab syllabi are subject to change.
Academic Services: In compliance with Lake Superior State University policy and equal access laws, disability-related
accommodations or services are available. Students who desire such services are to meet with the professor in a timely manner,
preferably the first week of class, to discuss their disability-related needs. Students will not receive services until they register
with the Resource Center for Students with Disabilities (RCSD). Proper registration will enable the RCSD to verify the
disability and determine reasonable academic accommodations. RCSD is located in the Library 101. The telephone number is
(906) 635-2454.
Laboratory: Chemistry is an experimental science. You are encouraged to think independently about
the data you collect and you will not be graded solely on whether you acquire the right number or deduce
the correct explanation, but rather whether your explanations and hypotheses follow logically from the
data and that your reasoning is clearly stated. In the laboratory component of this course students may
OCCASIONALLY work together in teams of no more than two, as directed by the instructor. Each
student team member is responsible for assuming an equal share of the lab responsibilities and work load.
Students are to prepare the pre-laboratory assignments before coming to lab, and to complete and turn in
their own laboratory reports as assigned. Students are advised to read the laboratory procedures and
carefully plan their work to maximize efficiency and guarantee success. If you must be absent from a
laboratory session you should contact your laboratory instructor and attend one of the other sessions that
has available space within the next week. You may not work alone in a laboratory. Missed labs cannot
be made up after the end of the week following the scheduled lab – nor after Thursday of the last week of
summer session.
Section
CH116 00A
CH116 00B
Day/Time
Tuesday 2-5 pm
Wednesday, 2-5 pm
Instructor
D. Myton
R. Blanchard
Office / phone
CRW311 / x2431
Text: Modular Laboratory Program in Chemistry, Chemical Education Resources
Approximate Course Calendar
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Week
#
1
Date
(week
starting)
August 30
2
Sept 6
3
Sept 13
4
Sept 20
5
Sept 27
6
Tues
Thur
Tues – Labor Day
break
Thur
Tues – possible conf.
in Marq.
Lecture
Lab
Ch 12 Physical
Properties of
Solutions
Ch 13 Chemical
Kinetics
Prop 507. Determining Molar
Mass by Freezing Point
Depression in Naphthalene.
No lab
Ch 13 cont
Kine 505. Studying the Rate of
the Reaction of Potassium
Permanganate and Oxalic Acid.
Kine508. Studying the Kinetics
of a Chemical Reaction
Anal 359. Spectrophotometric
Analysis of Permanganate Ion
Solutions.
Equil 441. Evaluating the
Equilibrium Constant for the
Reaction of Iron(III) Ion with
Thiocyanate Ion
Equil 494. Monitoring AcidBase Titrations with a pH Meter.
Equil 443. Studying the Effect
of Buffering on the Resistance
of a Solution to pH Change
Equil 308. Solubility Product
Constant of Lead(II) Iodide.
Equil 453. Determining the
Equivalent Mass and
Dissociation Constant of an
Unknown Weak Acid by
Titrimetry.
Anal 902. Analyzing the Acetic
Acid Content of Vinegar.
Tues – Exam 1
Thur
Tuesday
Thur
Ch 14 Chemical
Equilibrium
Ch 14 cont
Oct 4
Tue
Thur
Ch 15 Acids and
Bases
7
Oct 11
Ch 15 cont
8
Oct 18
Tues – Exam 2
Thur
Tuesday
Thursday
9
Oct 25
10
Nov 1
11
Nov 8
Tue
Thur
12
Nov 15
Tue
Thur
13
Nov 22
14
Nov 29
Tue
Thur – Thanksgiving
break
Tues – Exam 4
Tue
THur
Tue – Exam 3
Thur
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Ch 16 Acid base
Equilibria and
solubility equilibria
Ch 16 cont
Ch 17 Chemistry in
the Atmosphere
Ch18 Entropy, Free
Energy and
Equilibrium
Ch 18 cont
Ch 18 cont
Ch 19
Electrochemistry
Anal 427. Quantitatively
Determining the Acid Content of
Fruit Juices.
No lab
Anal 416. Determining the
Percent Sodium Hypochlorite in
Commercial Bleaching
Solutions.
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15
Dec 6
Tuesday
Thursday
Ch 23 Nuclear
Chemistry
Elec 224. Determination of the
Molecular Mass of Lead by
Electrolysis.
Other labs as assigned:
Prop 500. Determining Molar Mass by Freezing Point Depression.
Safety in the Laboratory
While working in the laboratory you are expected to comply with the safety rules which follow, any and
all rules posted in the laboratory or as established by your instructor. Violations of the safety rules
endanger both you and others in the laboratory. Students who violate the established rules and
procedures may be subject to warnings, reductions in grade, or expulsion from the lab. Safety rule
violations include but are not limited to the following. (Consult your laboratory instructor for specific
directions regarding the laboratory activities each week and for specific information regarding the
hazards and precautions required in each laboratory session.)
1. What is not explicitly allowed in the lab – it is FORBIDDEN! Always ask your instructor prior to
engage to any not described in your lab book activity.
2. Not wearing appropriate safety goggles for the activities assigned. NOTE: some activities such as
pouring and mixing concentrated reagents require the use of SPECIAL chemical splash goggles and
perhaps other personal protective equipment. Consult your instructor and always use the highest
level of protection available and appropriate for the task assigned.
3. Smoking, eating, or drinking in the laboratory.
4. Pipetting by mouth or otherwise handling chemicals unsafely. Using an open flame to heat
flammable liquids.
5. Not working under a fume hood when directed to do so.
6. Failing to report or clean up chemical spills or broken equipment. Special spill kits are available in
the lab to handle a variety of spilled chemicals.
7. Disposing of chemicals improperly. ALWAYS consult the instructor for the proper handling
instructions or location of the designated "USED CHEMICALS" container for the experiment.
8. Working alone in the laboratory or working outside the regularly scheduled lab times without
permission.
9. Performing unauthorized experiments.
10. Engaging in horseplay or other behavior that jeopardizes your safety or that of others in the
laboratory.
11. Failure to comply or adhere to guidelines and directives given by authorized university personnel
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