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Description

This introductory course in general chemistry discusses: fundamental laws and theories of chemical reactions, atomic structure, bonding theory, stoichiometry, properties of solids, liquids and gases, chemical equilibrium, acids and bases, chemical thermodynamics, electrochemistry, and kinetics.

Meetings: MWF 10:05 - 10:55, Chem Annex 16 (College of Computing)

Syllabus

  PDF Format

Other handouts:

  Introduction to Chemistry

Problem Sets

1. (due in recitation, week of 8/28): Chapter 1, problems 7, 13, 24, 37, 48, 56, 70, 80
2. (due in lab, week of 9/4): Chapter 2, problems 3, 18, 39, 42, 65, 72
3. (due in lab, week of 9/11): Chapter 3, problems 7, 14, 22, 27, 34, 68, 90
4. (due in lab, week of 9/18): Chapter 16, problems 3, 14, 16, 20, 31, 34, 46, 51
5. (due in lab, week of 9/25): Chapter 17, problems 4, 9, 12, 14, 22, 32, 48; Chapter 18, problems 4, 18, 28
6. (due in lab, week of 10/2): Chapter 4, problems 1, 6, 14, 29, 36, 53.
7. (due in lab, week of 10/9): Chapter 5, problems 3, 10, 26, 35, 52, 62, 67, 76
8. (due in lab, week of 10/16): Chapter 6, problems 4, 11, 19, 28, 44, 55
9. (due in lab, week of 10/23): Chapter 7, problems 2, 14, 23, 26, 42, 56, 62. Chapter 8, problems 1, 16, 26
10. (due in lab, week of 10/30): Chapter 8, problems 46, 61, 70, 71, 77
11. (due in lab, week of 11/6): Chapter 9, problems 1, 5, 22, 41; Chapter 10, problems 5, 16, 25, 37, 49, 62
12. (due in lab, week of 11/13): Chapter 11, problems 5, 8, 21, 32, 36, 48, 58
13. (due in recitation, week of 11/20): Chapter 12, problems 8, 16, 20, 34; Chapter 13, problems 4, 5, 12
14. (due in lab, week of 11/27): Chapter 13, problems 20, 27, 41, 44, 58
15. (due in lab, week of 12/4): Chapter 14, problems 4, 12, 13, 17, 22, 30, 40, 43, 48

Lecture Notes

Chapter 1	Chapter 2
Chapter 3	Chapter 16
Chapter 17	Chapter 18
Chapter 4	Chapter 5
Chapter 6	Chapter 7
Chapter 8	Chapter 9
Chapter 10	Chapter 11
Chapter 12	Chapter 13
Chapter 14

Required Textbooks

CHEMISTRY: Science of Change, 4th ed., Oxtoby, Freeman, and Block (Thompson, 2003). Accompanying study guides, solutions manuals, etc, are optional.

CHEM 1310 Custom Lab Manual, available at the GT Bookstore.

Announcements

Exam #2 multiple choice answers here

Grading scale for exams #1 and #2: 85+ A, 70+ B, 50+ C, 40+ D.

Grading scale for exam #3: 80+ A, 65+ B, 40+ C, 30+ D

Review list of important topics is here

Note: your final grade is determined by averaging your numerical scores, not your letter grades. Therefore, whether you fall one point above or below a grade cutoff line does not really matter (unless it were to happen consistently), because it's the numbers that are averaged, not the letters. In other words, a 79 or an 80 on test 3 are essentially the same grade, because that one point washes out when averaged with the other test, homework, and lab grades.

Final exam is Monday, Dec 11, 2:50-5:40pm.