CHEMISTRY 210---Fall 2008 Syllabus
Chemistry 210 is a general introduction to the principles of chemistry. Class meetings consist of lectures and discussion sections. General Chemistry laboratory is a separate course (Chemistry 125), which will be offered next quarter.
In Chemistry 210, you will attend lectures two times per week; the lecture schedule is listed below. In addition, you will meet once per week in a discussion class of 20 students, each led by a Teaching Assistant (TA), who will go over assignments in more detail and help prepare you for the midterm and final exams. The time and location of the discussion will be announced later. Each midterm exam takes about
100 minutes.
Lecturer Office
Zhan Chen
Room
Dong shangyuan-400
223 Law School
Time
Tue 1-2; Fri 3-4/ Tue 7-8;
Fri 7-8
Ping Liu
Dong shangyuan-300
To be announced
223 Chem Building Tue 1-2; Fri 3-4
To be announced 7 TAs
Required course materials
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Textbook: Chemistry-The Central Science (Theodore L. Brown; H Eugene
LeMay, Jr.; Bruce E.Bursten), 8th edition (Prentice-Hall, Inc.).
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For exams, you will need a non-programmable scientific calculator .
(Programmable calculators are not allowed on the exams).
Office hours of instructors and TAs: Instructors will have office hours twice a week, from 1:00 to 1:45 PM on Tuesday and Friday. TAs will hold office hours five evenings a week: Monday through Thursday and Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 PM in the study room of your dorms, where they can provide one-on-one help to Chem-210 students. Either one or two TAs will be on duty each evening; you may ask for help from any TA during office hours (it does not have to be the TA who leads your discussion section).
Grading Policy
Your grade will be determined based on your performance on the midterm exams, the final exam, 10 best homework assignments and class attendance and participation. The weighted points are assigned as follows:
Midterm exams 100*3=300 pts 20%*3 = 60% final exam 100 pts 30 %
10 best homework assignments (10 pts each) class attendance and participation 100 pts 10 %
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Total: 100%
Midterm exams are scheduled from 6:00 to 7:40 P.M
. on three Thursday evenings,

October 9 th
, October 30 th
and November 20 th
2008 (Exam rooms will be assigned later).
The Final exam is on Friday, December 12 th
from 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.
Online homework:
12 Homework Sets (worth 10 pts each) will be posted weekly at the SAKAI website: http://202.120.46.185/portal . You will use your SJTU-JI unique name and password to login and access this course management site. Homework sets are usually due at the beginning of the next Tuesday’s class.
Most homework assignments contain two parts. One part is selected from the online materials specific to the textbook at: http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_brown_chemistry_8e/0,12129,3390100-,00.html
. The first part of the homework will serve as a good guide or a nice mentor. The purpose for you to do this part of the homework is to ensure that you are well prepared to finish the second part of the homework (end-of-chapter exercises from the textbook). The online work is graded immediately by the computer system and it is not necessary to submit the results to your instructor or TA . Another part of the homework is selected from the end-of-chapter exercises from the textbook. They will be assigned to you at the end of each class.
In case of illness or other emergency -
Sometimes (rarely) students have to miss exams because of illness or other types of emergency. If you are ill and have to miss an exam, please e-mail your lecturer immediately and ask the Health Service or your M.D. for a note in confirmation.
Schedule of topics to be covered in lecture, assigned readings, and recommended end-of-chapter problems
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 materials.
Suggested end-of-chapter homework problems are representative of questions you will encounter on exams. It is essential that you keep up with the homework on a weekly basis as you read the textbook chapters. Practice with the homework problems while reading the text is probably the most effective way to study.
If you are having troubles with any of the assigned homework problems, try the oddnumbered questions just before or after it (There are answers to selected exercises on the textbook). In most cases, odd- and even-numbered problems next to each other are similar.

Month
Sep.
Day Reading
5-Fri (Wk 1) Ch. 2
9- Tue (Wk 2 ) Ch.6
Subject
Course Orientation and Overview of Chemistry
Electronic structure of atoms 6.1-6.5
Oct.
12- Fri (Wk 2) Ch.6
16- Tue (Wk 3) Ch.8
Electronic structure of atoms 6.6-6.9
Basic concepts of chemical bonding 8.1-8.4
19-Fri (Wk 3) Ch.8 Basic concepts of chemical bonding 8.5-8.8
23-Tue (Wk 4) Ch. 9 Molecular Geometry and bonding Theories 9.1-9.4
26-Fri (Wk 4) Ch. 9 Molecular Geometry and bonding Theories 9.5-9.6
30-Tue (Wk 5) Ch.11 Intermolecular forces, liquids and solids 11.1-11.3
7-Tue(Wk 6) Ch.11 Intermolecular forces, liquids and solids 11.4-11.6
9-Thur (Wk 6)
6:00-
7:40 pm
10-Fri (Wk 6) Ch.13
Midterm-1 (chap. 6, 8, & 9)
Properties of solutions 13.1-13.4
14-Tue (Wk 7) Ch.13 Properties of solutions 13.5
17-Fri (Wk 7) Ch.15
21-Tue (Wk 8)
Ch.15
& Ch.16
24-Fri (Wk 8) Ch.16
Chemical Equilibrium 15.1-15.5
Chemical Equilibrium 15.6
Acid-Base Equilibrium 16.1-16.5
Acid-Base Equilibrium 16.6-16.9
Nov.
28-Tue (Wk 9) Ch.17 Additional Aspects of Aqueous Equilibria 17.1, 2, 4
30-Thur (Wk 9)
6:00-
7:40 pm
Midterm-2 (chap. 11, 13, 15,16)
31-Fri (Wk 9) Ch.17 Additional Aspects of Aqueous Equilibria 17.5 -17.6
4-Tue (Wk 10) Ch.5 Thermochemistry 5.1-5.4

7-Fri (Wk 10)
11-Tue (Wk 11)
14-Fri (Wk 11)
Ch.5
Ch 8.8
Ch.19
Ch.19
Dec.
18-Tue (Wk 12) Ch.20
6:00-
20-Thur (Wk 12)
7:40 pm
21-Fri (Wk 12) Ch.20
25-Tue (Wk 13)
28-Fri (Wk 13)
2-Tue (Wk 14)
Ch.20
Ch.20
Ch.24
5-Fri (Wk 14)
9-Tue (Wk 15)
12-Fri (Wk 15)
Ch.24
Ch.24
Thermochemistry 5.5-5.7
& Strength of covalent bonds 8.8
Chemical Thermodynamics 19.1---19.4
Chemical Thermodynamics 19.5---19.7
Electrochemistry 20.1,2,3
Midterm-3 (chap. 17, 5, 19)
Electrochemistry 20.4-20.6
Electrochemistry 20.7-20.8
Electrochemistry 20.9
Coordination Compounds 24.1-24.3
Coordination Compounds 24.4-24.5
A quiz (15 min, chap 20,24) & review
Final Exam