Dr. Kime
Chemistry 2A Syllabus
Spring 2016 8 week course ellen.kime@rcc.edu
Lecture 4:10-6:15PM
Lab A 2:00-4:05 PM
Lab B 6:20-8:25 PM
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Welcome to Chemistry 2A, Introduction to Chemistry. This class is for students who have not had chemistry in high school it is required for nursing majors, meets the lab science requirement and is a prerequisite for General Chemistry (Chem. 1A). IF YOU HAVE HAD
CHEMISTRY PREVIOUSLY IN HIGH SCHOOL (and passed it): take your transcripts to the admissions office, take the chemistry placement exam (pass it) and you do not have to take Chem. 2A to enter Chem.1A
1. Solve basic level problems (using formulae and unit analysis) relating to unit conversions, stoichiometry, gas law equations, concentrations of solutions, pH, and nuclear chemistry.
2. Describe and apply a chemical vocabulary of approximately 200 words.
3. Apply the systematic naming system to name inorganic and simple organic compounds. Apply Lewis Theory to ionic and covalent bonding.
4. Relate chemical concepts to physical phenomena in the areas of health, the environment, and their everyday lives.
5. Collect data using accurate qualitative observations and quantitative measurements of length, mass, temperature, and volume.
Text : You are required to have a text book: General, Organic and
Biological Chemistry by Smith (3rd edition) and the lab manual:
Sometimes, Seeing is Believing by Amrich et al. both are available in the campus bookstore and the textbook is available on-line. You are expected to use the Powerpoints found on my website in the lecture.
Either bring a device to view the Powerpoint presentation or print it out.
Cell phones: If your cell phone rings, you are talking on the cell phone or text messaging I will ask you to leave for the day.
Other requirements : you will need a scientific calculator for this course, your cell phone is not good enough (and I won’t let you use it). A periodic table is helpful and there are many to be found on the web.

Exams, handouts and quizzes: There will be 4 exams during the semester
(100 points each these exams are worth 60% of your grade. Exams will include some or all of the following types of problems: workout problems, multiple-choice, true-false, fill in the blank, matching and anything else I find interesting. Weeks in which there is not an exam there will be a quiz. I will also have handouts for extra practice, some will be collected, some will not. Quizzes and collected handouts will contribute to 15% of your grade I DO NOT DROP ANY EXAM GRADE .
Homework: Homework will be assigned but not collected, it is worthwhile doing because the problems may show up on the exams and quizzes and will help you. Don’t limit the homework you do to that assigned, if you are having problems do extra homework.
Missed exams, quizzes and handouts: If you miss an exam you must call me immediately so I do not drop you from the course. If I have not returned the graded exam to the class and you have a doctors excuse I will let you take the exam. If you miss a second exam you should drop the course because there is no make-up for that exam. Quizzes and
Handouts cannot be made up under any circumstances.
Laboratory Laboratory work is worth 25% of your grade. We will have a lab each day. You cannot make it up other than the day it is offered. You may not move your morning lab to the afternoon on exam day. You are allowed to move your lab 2 times during the semester
(i.e. morning lab to afternoon). You are required to have a laboratory lab manual. You may not turn in a handwritten lab. Do not bring food, drink, or cigarettes into the lab. You may not listen to music in the lab. You are required to wear safety goggles and can be asked to leave if you don’t. Laboratory is designed to help you understand concepts. Come prepared to learn. It’s a lot of fun.
Grades: The lecture is worth 75% of your grade and the lab is worth
25%. The grading will be as follows:
A-90-100%, B-78-89.9%, C-65%-77.9%, D-55-64.9%, F<55%
Extra Help: If you are having problems in class come to my office or lab. You can also get a tutor at the tutoring center 222-8168. If you are disabled don’t hesitate to contact disabled student services at 222-8060. We all have different learning styles. It is great to use all services available to help you learn. If I am not in my office don’t hesitate to ask another chemistry instructor for help. We are all here to help you.
Cheating: A zero on the assignment and a trip to the Dean’s office.

Chemistry 2a
Syllabus is subject to change
Week Lecture topics
1
2/16
Chapter 1. Matter and
Measurement(in lab)
Chapter 2. Elements,
Periodic table: groups, periods, compounds
Chapter 1. Conversion
Factors
Chapter 2: Atomic structure, nucleus, nucleotides,
Isotopes, Atomic mass
Quiz 1,
Chapter 2: Atomic trends, electron configuration, size, ionization energy, valence shell
Spring 2016 (I)
Labs
Syllabus, Safety film, equipment, scientific notation worksheet
SA 1. Significant figures
Dimensional analysis
Experiment 5, Units of measure
Average atomic mass worksheet
8 week course
Homework
Chapter
1:1.35,39,41,43,44,46,47,55,57,59
Chapter 2:35,37,39,41,48,53
Chapter
1:1.49,51,53,62,63,64,65,67,69,75,
Chapter 2:43,45,55,57,59,61,62,
2 2/23 Chapter 10 Types of radiation, balancing chemical reactions, Half- life, radio carbon dating
Chapter 10 fusion and fission
Detection and measuring,
Human exposure, radioactivity and diagnosis.
Handout 1
Exam 1 chapter 1,2,10
3
3/1
Chapter 3: Ionic vs covalent compounds, Forming Ions
(complete valence shell,,
Naming Ionic compounds
Chapter 4: Covalent bonds,
Naming covalent compounds
Lewis structures
Electronegativity, dipole moments , Dipole of water
Solubility of ionic compounds Chapter 8.3B solubility rule table
Experiment 6 Density
Experiment 3: Elements and Compounds,
Worksheet, balancing nuclear equations
Experiment 4
Separation of Mixtures
SA:2 Ionic
Nomenclature
SA:4 Formula Writing
Ionic compounds
SA:3 Covalent
Nomenclature,
SA. 5 Lewis structures,
Chapter 1:91,93,95,97,98 (do all challenge problems to learn to do dosage questions for nursing exam)
Chapter 2:
64,65,67,7173,75,83,85,87,89,95,98,
101
Chapter 1:1.79,83,86,89
Chapter
10:27,31,33,34,35,37,41,43,45,
49,53, 55, 57, 59,
Chapter 10:65,67,69,
75,77,79,83,87,90
92
Chapter 3:29,31,35,37,39,41,43,45,
47,49,51,53,59,61,67,68,69,
71,73,75,77,79,81,83,85,89,91,96,99
Chapter4:27,29,31,33,35,37,38,41,
43,53,54,55,56,
Chapter 4:,71,
73,75,77,79, 85,87, ,93
Chapter 8:
8.49, 8.53, 8.60, 8.65

Quiz 2:
Chapter 5: Chemical reactions: types of chemical reactions, combination, decomposition, single replacement, double replacement
Experiment 10. Water
Analysis
Ch5:55,57,59,61,63,64,
4
3/8
Balancing chemical equation
Oxidation- reduction reactions,
The Mole, and Avogadro’s number
Handout 2 Experiment 2 Forming a
Hypothesis
Ch: 5:45,47,49,51,65,67,69,
5
3/15
6
3/22
Exam 2 Chapter 3,4,5 to mole and avogadro’s number
Ch. 5
Chapter 5: Relating grams to moles, Molar mass, relating grams to number of atoms or molecules, mole calculations in chemical equations
Ch. 5
Chapter 5: Stoichiometry
Quiz 3
Mass calculations in chemical reactions, % yield.
Limiting reactant
Handout ICE charts
SA 6: Balancing
Equations
Worksheet Mole and avogadro’s number
Experiment 7: Chemical and physical changes
Experiment 8.
Conservation of Mass
Experiment 8.
Conservation of Mass
Chapter 6 Energy, Food calories, (Chapter 7.10)
Specific heat, rates of reaction Equilibrium, Le
Chatelier’s Principle
Energy diagrams, bond dissociation energy. Exo vs endothermic reactions
Handout 3
Exam 3: 5 and 6
Chapter 7 Gas Laws reaction
Handout: Lab Finding the amount of calories in nuts
Handout: Boyles Law,
Guy-Lussac’s Law,
Charle’s Law
Ch. 5:71,73,75,77,79,81,83,85
Ch. 5: 87,89
Ch. 5:93,95,97,99,101,103,014,
105,106,107,109,111
Chapter 6
6:.25,.27,.29,.31,.33,.35,.79,.81,.85,.
87.93,.95
Chapter
6:.38,.40,.42,.45,.49,.60,.100
Ch.
7:43,.44,.49,.51,.53,.55,.57,.59,.61,.6
1,.

7 3/29 Chapter 7Avogadro’s Law,
Ideal Gas Law, Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressure
Solutions Inter molecular forces, Energy and phase changes, phase diagrams
Chapter 8:Electrolytes,
Colloids and suspensions,
Equivalent, solubility,
Quiz 4 solubility, Molarity, % by mass, % m/v, % v/v, dilution colligative properties
Handout: Lab Ideal gas
Laws
Ch.
7:.63,.65,.67,.69,.71,.73,.75,.77,.79
.111
Experiment 12 Colloids Ch. 7:
81,.83,.85,.89,.90,.91,.99,.101,.103,1
05,.107,.111,.
Ch.8: 37,38.43,.45,
Ch. 8: Experiment 13: The
Chemistry of Acids and
Bases
8.37,.51,.63,.65,.69,.71,.91,.102
Experiment 14:
Measurement of
Relative Acidity
8
4/5
Chapter 9: Introduction to
Acids, What is an acid,
Acidity in the body, neutralization reactions,
Buffers
Calculating pH
Handout 4
Exam 4: Chapters 7, 8,9
Experiment 15:
Measurement of
Absolute Acidity
Experiment 16 Buffers
Check-out
Ch. 9:
9.39,41,43,45,47,51,53,55,57,59,67,
93,.95,99,101,103,105,109,
Ch. 9:
9:75,79,81,83,85,91,117,119,120

Labs
Date
2/16 T
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2/23 T
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3/1 T
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3/8 T
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3/15 T
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3/22
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3/29 T
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4/5 T
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Chemistry 2A Spring 2016 (I) KIME 8 week course
Laboratory
Syllabus, Safety film, equipment, scientific notation worksheet
SA 1. Significant figures
Dimensional analysis
Experiment 5, Units of measure, Average atomic mass worksheet
Experiment 6 Density
Experiment 3: Elements and Compounds,
Worksheet, balancing nuclear equations
Experiment 4 Separation of Mixtures
SA:2 Ionic Nomenclature
SA:4 Formula Writing Ionic compounds
SA:3 Covalent Nomenclature,
SA. 5 Lewis structures,
Experiment 10 Water Analysis
Lecture only today
Experiment 2 Forming a Hypothesis
SA 6: Balancing Equations
Experiment 7: Chemical and physical changes
Experiment 8. Conservation of Mass
Experiment 8. Conservation of Mass continued worksheet stoichiometry
Experiment 9 Rates of Chemical reactions
Handout: Lab Finding the amount of calories in nuts
Handout Lab : Boyles Law, Guy-Lussac’s Law, Charle’s Law
Handout: Lab Ideal gas Laws
Experiment 12: Colloids
Experiment 13: The Chemistry of Acids and Bases
Experiment 14: Measurement of Relative Acidity
Experiment 15: Measurement of Absolute Acidity
Experiment 16 Buffers
Check-out