This course is the first of a two semester General Chemistry sequence. Completion of the two-course sequence fulfills the General Education requirement of the College of Arts and Sciences. Should you only take CHEM111, your General Education requirement will not be met. Students desiring only one semester of chemistry for your General Education requirement should take CHEM 110.

One key factor in succeeding in this class is that you come in with sufficient algebra skills. If you have not been placed into MATH 185 or higher, you should postpone taking this class until your math skills have improved. Also, if you have never had a chemistry class, you may want to take CHEM 100 instead. CHEM 100 prepares you to take CHEM 111. If your major only requires you to take one semester of chemistry, make sure that you need CHEM 111 and not CHEM 110 which is designed to be a one semester experience. If you are uncertain if you have been properly placed in this class, please talk to your professor or advisor.

Lab is a co-requisite for all students except for those repeating the course. Those repeaters opting not to retake lab are cautioned that their grade will be determined exclusively by quiz and exam performance.

Historically, students that rely upon lecture attendance alone to learn the material are not successful. To succeed in this course, daily work on practice problems must be done. Exams will test both conceptual understanding as well as quantitative manipulations. Practice will build the required critical thinking and problem solving skills required on the exams and quizzes.
 

OBJECTIVES:

At the end of this course, it is expected that the student will be able to:

Demonstrate knowledge of basic chemical principles, including the following areas: chemical formulas, types of reactions, reaction stoichiometry, solutions and concentrations, gas laws, calorimetry, electronic structure, periodic properties, Lewis structures, molecular geometry, hybridization.

 See the applicability of chemistry to common occurrences in daily life

Analyze a problem and determine the appropriate mathematical manipulation required to solve the problem.

Tie together macroscopic phenomena with microscopic understanding.

Office: CB 100     Phone: 646-2410    E-mail: wquintan@nmsu.edu
Office Hours: M-F 10:30-11:45 or by appointment

Section 2:  (8:30-9:20 MWF; CB 153)  D. Smith

Office: CB 287     Phone: 646-5210    E-mail: davsmith@nmsu.edu
Office Hours: MWF 3:00-4:00 or by appointment

Section 4:  (1:30-2:20 MWF; CB 153)  H. Wang

Office: CB 296     Phone: 646-3473    E-mail: chem111@intrepid.nmsu.edu
Office Hours: MWF 2:30-3:30 or by appointment

TEXTBOOK:

"Essential Chemistry" 2nd ed. by Raymond Chang

LAB MATERIALS:

• CHEM 111-112 lab textbook, published by OuternetPublishing Co.
•  Laboratory Notebook (Hayden, McNeil Pub.)
•  Goggles, as described below on the last page

CALCULATOR:

• You will need a calculator with exponential notation, log and ln. Alpha-numeric calculators (ones that can store equations and text) are NOT permitted to be used on quizzes and exams.

Low tech resources:

• Both your lecture instructorand laboratory TA have posted office hours.
• Help is also available in the General Chemistry Assistance Room, CB-110.  The times help will be available will be posted.
• A list of tutors, who can be hired for hourly fee, is available in CB 100.
• Suplemental Instruction Workshops, a one credit hour course, are available for enrollment.  SI workshops are peer instructed and provide small group activities to help you master content and gain better study strategies.  The workshop associated with CHEM 111 is listed as CHEM 101.
• A student study guide that compliments the text (not required) is available at the bookstore.

High tech resources:

This web site (created by Dr. Sergei Smirnov) includes many resources including practice problems for you to try, copies of old exams and quizzes, and links to many useful chemistry sites. To reach it, go to www.chemistry.nmsu.edu/studntres/chem111.

There is an Online Learning Center associated with this textbook. The URL for the site is  www.mhhe.com/essentialchemistry . The site has many practice quizzes and animations to help you visualize content. Look under the Student Resources heading for the options available to you.

A CD-ROM has been bundled with your textbook that contains ChemSkillBuilder. It also supplies review lessons and practice quizzes.

Academic charges will be pursued for anybody caught in the act of cheating during an exam or quiz, which could lead to expulsion from the university. Cheating which includes plagiarism, copying or presenting other's work as your own ideas, on class assignments, quizzes and exams will be addressed as discussed in the Student Handbook.

All CHEM 111 students will take their hourly exams on Wednesday nights at 7:30-9:30 pm.  The exams will be given on the following dates, make sure that you are available for the exam times.

Students must notify the instructor BEFORE an exam is missed in order to qualify for any of the exceptions noted in this section. Failure to communicate with the instructor will result in a "0" for any missed exam. If you have a conflicting university event you should notify the lecture instructor as soon as possible so as to schedule an early exam. The only valid excuses for missing an exam are documented illness, death in the family, or required participation in any university related function. Should you have a valid excuse, get in contact with the instructor sometime before the exam is given.  When an early exam is not possible, the missed exam may receive the average of the other three exams.  Again, this option is only available when arrangements have been made prior to the missing of the exam.  If the instructor is unobtainable on the day of the exam, call 646-2505 and leave a message.

• Three hour exams (15% each)..............45%
• Lab experiments........................................20%
• Lecture quizzes and assignments..........20%
• Final exam...................................................15%

Students who are retaking CHEM 111 may be excused from the experimental portion of the course only if their previouslab grade was 70 or better and the lab was completed within the past two years. A student who wishes to be excused from the lab must discuss this possibility with the lecture instructor before the end of the first week of the session. Previous lab grades can be obtained from the previous instructor or the general chemistry office. The grading scheme applied to people with excused lab work is as follows:

• Three hour exams and final......................75%
• Lecture quizzes and assignments...........25%

DATE	CHAPTER
Aug. 19 - Aug. 23	Ch. 1 Introduction
Aug. 26 - Aug. 30	Ch. 2 Atoms, Molecules, and Ions
Sept. 3 - Sept. 11	Ch. 3 Stoichiometry
Wednesday, September 18, Exam 1 (Ch. 1, 2, and 3)
Sept. 13 - Sept. 20*	Ch. 4 Reactions in Aqueous Solutions
Sept. 23 - Sept. 30	Ch. 5 Gases
Oct. 2 - Oct. 9	Ch. 6 Energy Relationships in Chemical Reactions
Wednesday, October 16, Exam 2 (Ch. 4, 5, and 6)
Oct. 11 - Oct. 18*	Ch. 7 The Electronic Structure of Atoms
Oct. 23 - Oct. 28	Ch. 8 The Periodic Table
Oct. 30 - Nov. 6	Ch. 9 Chemical Bonding I: The Covalent Bond
Wednesday, November 13, Exam 3 (Ch. 7, 8, 9)
Nov. 8 - Nov. 22*	Ch. 10 Chemical Bonding II: Molecular Geometry and Hybridization of Atomic Orbitals
Nov. 25 - Dec. 6	Ch. 11 Intermolecular Forces and Liquids and Solids

*  Material may be covered before the exam but will not be covered on that exam.
 

EXERCISES:

The exercises assigned below are given as a study guide. You will not be expected to turn these problems in unless your lecture instructor specifically requests it. They are also meant to be a minimum of problems required to succeed in the class - we encourage you to do additional problems as you have time. Nonetheless, chances are that if you work out these problems, your grade will improve.

• Chapter 1: 8, 12, 18, 20 - 40 even only, 44, 48, 54, 66, 70
• Chapter 2: 12 - 34 even only, 38 - 42 even only, 44, 50, 52, 54, 60
• Chapter 3: 10, 16 -32 even only, 42 - 54 even only, 60, 66 - 76 even only, 80, 82, 88
• Chapter 4: 6, 14, 16, 18, 26, 28, 32, 36, 38, 40, 48, 50, 52, 54, 58, 60, 68, 72
• Chapter 5: 14, 18 - 26 even only, 32, 34, 38, 42, 46, 48, 50, 54, 58, 60
• Chapter 6: 20, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 40, 46, 48, 50, 52
• Chapter 7: 8, 12, 16, 18, 30, 32, 40, 54, 56, 58, 64, 68, 78, 82, 84
• Chapter 8: 18, 20, 22, 28, 30, 32, 38, 54, 60, 80
• Chapter 9: 14, 16, 22, 24, 30, 32, 42, 48, 50
• Chapter 10: 8, 10, 12, 20, 36, 40, 42

Safety glasses must be worn whenever laboratory work is in progress. Goggles that will fit over most prescription glasses are available at the bookstore. Check with your laboratory instructor before purchasing goggles so that you will obtain acceptable ones. Contact lenses are prohibited in the laboratory. Proper attire is required during the act of performing the experiment. No tank tops, no short pants, no sandals, and no hats are to be worn during the experiment.  Persons with long hair should have it restrained during the experiment (e.g. bobby pins or the such). Anybody that does not follow these rules will not be allowed to perform the experiment.We will be personally inspecting the labs from time to time to see that these rules are enforced. Any experiments unavoidably missed must be made up within one week. Labs not made up will result in deduction from the laboratory grade. You must have permission from your TA before a lab can be made up. You may make up an experiment in any CHEM 111 lab, provided that you obtain permission from the TA of that lab section. Both TA's must initial your laboratory notebook. When a laboratory experiment is made up, turn in the report to the TA in charge, who will then deliver it to your TA.

Aug. 19-Aug. 23	CHECK-IN and Assessment Exam
Aug. 24 - Aug. 30	EXP. 1 Significant Figures and Measurement of Density.  SAFETY QUIZ
Sept. 3 - Sept. 9	EXP. 2 A Series of Copper Reactions
Sept. 10 - Sept. 16	EXP. 3 Hardware Models: Limiting Reactant andTheoretical Yield
Sept. 17 - Sept. 23	EXP. 4 Water of Hydration
Sept. 24 - Sept. 30	EXP. 5 Redox Titration of Iron
Oct. 1 - Oct. 7	EXP. 6 Production of Hydrogen Gas
Oct. 8 - Oct. 14	EXP. 7 Calorimetry: Hess' Law
Oct. 15 - Oct. 22	No Labs
Oct. 23 - Oct. 29	EXP. 9 Synthesis of Alum
Oct. 30 - Nov. 5	EXP. 10 Synthesis of an Iron Complex
Nov. 6 - Nov. 12	EXP. 11 Percent Iron and Percent Water in anIron Complex
Nov. 13 - Nov. 19	EXP. 12 Percent Oxalate in an Iron Complex
Nov. 20 - Nov. 26	CHECK-OUT

Last updated on 08/16/02
Email: davsmith@nmsu.edu