Chemistry 1220
Fall 2007

Course: Principles of Chemistry II – Section 001 – CRN# 40534

Time/Location: MWF 1:30 – 2:20, W-007

Instructor: Stephen Bialkowski

Office: ML-359; Phone: 7-1907; Electronic Mail: Stephen.Bialkowski@usu.edu

Student Office Hours: M 2:30-3:30, W 3:00-4:00, or by appointment.

Required Text: T. L. Brown, H. E. LeMay, and B. E. Bursten Chemistry: The Central Science 10^th Edition, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 2006

Prerequisites: Math 1050 or equivalent; Chem 1210 or equivalent

Recitation: You must be registered for a recitation section (CRN# 42833-42836). You will meet in recitation once each week to review material from the lectures.

Resource Room: Times and locations of the “Resource Room” will be announced during the first week of the term. These sessions are available on a walk-in basis to all general chemistry students.

Supplemental Instruction: Times and locations for meeting with the SI leader Brittany Woytko are: Monday 2:30-3:20 M-326; Wednesday 2:30-3:20 M-326; and Thursday 3:30-4:20 ESLC 046. Brittany will attend this class each day and is especially qualified to assist students. (brittwoytko@gmail.com)

Grading: A total of 600 points is possible in Chem 1220. Points are distributed as follows:

Tentative grade brackets: A/A- 100–88%; B-/B/B+ 87–77%; C-/C/C+ 76–60%; D/D+ 59–50%

Anyone missing one of the scheduled exams for legitimate reasons (with written documentation) will be eligible to take the comprehensive make-up exam, offered on Friday, November 30, by appointment. Make-up recitation quizzes will not be offered.

Course Provisions: The Americans with Disabilities Act mandates that reasonable accommodation will be made for students with disabilities in order to assure equal participation in Chem 1220. Students requesting such accommodation must meet me during the first week of classes and must coordinate such accommodations with the Disabilities Resource Center. The administration of Chem 1220 will adhere strictly to the academic regulations stipulated in the most recent Schedule of Classes and the USU General Catalog. Withdrawal from the course will follow official USU procedures.

Blackboard: I plan to utilize the “Blackboard” management system for Chem 1220. Registered students have access to Blackboard. Using a web browser, go to: http://bb.usu.edu Log on using your Banner A-number and password.

Learning Objectives: Chemistry 1220 is designed to prepare students to understand and solve quantitative problems in chemical kinetics, equilibrium, and thermodynamics. Acid-base reactions, pH, electrochemistry, and nuclear reactivity problems are addressed. Earth's environment issues are integrated into the coverage. Descriptive topics are presented to complete the knowledge of chemistry.

Assessment Statement: Class performance will be assessed relative to national norms through standard final examination.

Detailed Schedule, Fall 2007

Specific Learning Objectives: Chemistry 1220 is designed to prepare students to understand and solve quantitative problems in chemical kinetics, equilibrium, and thermodynamics. Acid-base reactions, pH, electrochemistry, and nuclear reactivity problems are addressed. Earth's environment issues are integrated into the coverage. A range of descriptive topics is presented to complete the course. Some specific objectives are:

• Deduce chemical structures given chemical composition.
• Discuss and apply concepts of chemical structure and bonding to predict chemical structure and chemical reactivity.
• Discuss the basic chemical components of living systems, including proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and carbohydrates.
• Be able to relate the microscopic and macroscopic properties of matter to each other.
• Use physical and computational models to describe energies and forces in atoms and ions and explain the trends in the periodic table.
• Use the laws of thermodynamics to discuss and predict chemical reactivity and spontaneity.
• Apply concepts of resonance and inductive effects to predict the chemical and physical properties for different functional groups and the reactivity of molecules to which these functional groups are attached.
• Draw the Lewis structures including reasonable resonance structures and predict chemical properties for various compounds.
• Identify the various types of isomerism in organic and inorganic compounds, identify and classify chiral centers.
• Draw and interpret reaction coordinate diagrams, relate the energetic changes associated with chemical reactions to equilibrium constants and rate, and differentiate kinetic versus thermodynamic control of reactions.
• Describe the basic issues of nuclear chemistry and radioactivity.
• Explain the properties of water and its impact on chemical reactions.
• Develop and apply Molecular Orbital models of chemical bonding.
• Describe the features of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids.
• Classify compounds by structure, use the IUPAC nomenclature, and identify conformational effects.