General InformationChemistry 5 provides an introduction to macroscopic chemistry. This is the quantitative study of those aspects of matter (both compositions and transformations) which are amenable to macroscopic methods (measurements of weight, volume, color, temperature, etc.). The regularity of chemical composition (the topic known as stoichiometry), gas behavior, chemical reaction equilibrium, and elementary chemical thermodynamics will all be treated in some depth this term. There will be emphasis on problem-solving, often of some relevance to biological, environmental, or industrial processes. Lecture Professor:John Winn, 204 Burke Class Hours:Professor Winn is the lecturer for the 9 section of Chem 5. You must adhere to the class schedule for the lecture hour assigned to you by the Registrar. We will use all x-hours this term, many for recitation sections (problem-solving, review, special topics, etc.). See the Course Calendar for details on the term schedule. Lectures: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:45 - 9:50 in 006 Steele Office Hours:I will hold open office hours for our section in 315 Steele (near the labs) at the following times: Tuesday 2:00 - 3:00 In addition to these times, primarily designed for help with material directly related to the lecture portion of the course, your lab TA will describe the office hours designed for the laboratory portion of the course. Contacting Professor Winn:I am happy to meet with you when called for, but with a class as large as ours, the office hours listed above should be your first choice for most of your questions. If you do need to see me, however, to discuss some particular aspect of the course, your performance in it, or any other matter best discussed between the two of us, either see me after class or blitz me, suggesting a time or two that works for you. I will check my schedule and get back to you as soon as I can. Blitz Policy:BlitzMail is great. I blitz; you blitz; we all blitz. (And if you doubt that I blitz, check out who designed the BlitzMail icon for the current Mac OS X version of BlitzMail.) But as a medium for discussing course content, it stinks. I will not use BlitzMail to answer questions about lecture topics or homework assignments. Those are office hour questions. Please blitz me only if you need to set up an appointment with me as discussed above or if you have a conflict with an exam (illness or another regularly scheduled academic event). Required Texts:Chemical Principles (5th edition), Steven S. Zumdahl Reserve Texts:A selection of general chemistry textbooks, including your own text, has been placed on reserve in Kresge Library. You may find it helpful to read appropriate sections in one or more of these on occasion, and all of them are good sources of worked example problems and extra practice problems. In addition, solution manuals to all the problems in the text are available on reserve. Web Sites:Lecture: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~genchem You are on the lecture web site now (duh!), and links to the lab and departmental sites generally appear at the right hand bottom corner of each page on this site under "RELATED LINKS." Examinations:There will be two exams during the term plus a final exam. All will be closed book - none of your own books or papers will be allowed. Be sure to bring a working calculator! Requests for taking exams at other times will be considered only in case of an emergency or a legitimate academic conflict. Exam 1: Thursday, January 27, 7:00 - 9:00 PM Grades:Your grade will be based on your combined exam and laboratory performance, which have the following points associated with them:
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Laboratory:The Laboratory General Information handout will provide details about the lab. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. You must purchase a copy of the Chemistry 5 Laboratory Manual and come prepared for your first Laboratory session. The General Chemistry Laboratory web site has many important and helpful features. Use it often and wisely! Homework:Chemistry is a quantitative science, and the ability to solve numerical problems is essential for attaining a clear understanding of the topics in Chemistry 5. Problems are found throughout your textbook, problems will be worked during the lectures, and problem sets consisting of recommended problems at the end of each chapter plus several others of the type that will appear on exams will be assigned each week. The Study Guide by Kelter has additional problems and exercises, and the Complete Solutions Guide has solutions to all the textbook problems. While you are encouraged to study with your classmates and learn from each other, it is crucial that you work at the problem sets on your own, consulting the answer key only when you are hopelessly stuck. If not, you will find the exams (where worked answers and classmate help are not available) very difficult! The x-hour discussion sections, to be held almost every week, will primarily focus on these assigned problems. Some of the goals of this course are to instill in you the ability to integrate the material of the course, to think in a quantitative way, and to see the "big picture" of chemistry: the ways in which seemingly different topics are in fact all manifestations of the same broad principles. Special Note:Students with disabilities, including invisible disabilities such as chronic health problems or learning disabilities, are encouraged to discuss with me appropriate accommodations that might be helpful. Honor Principle:It is important to be explicit in stating how the broad principle of academic honor applies in Chemistry 5. Read the page that discusses the Honor Principle in our General Chemistry courses in detail, and ask me to clarify any points of that discussion that are not clear to you.
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