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Chemistry 1010: Molecularity, C17-C02 Syllabus

Ronald L. Grimm, Wen-Chao Lai, and Ivan Mardilovich


Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01609, United States

ABSTRACT: This document provides information regard-


ing course structure, content, homework and exams, labora- TOPICS COVERED
tory, and scheduling information. If you have any questions, The course follows the first six chapters of GKF. Not all
feel free to contact Professor Grimm. material from these chapters will be covered in class due to
the time constraints of a 1/3-unit course, however students
INTRODUCTION will be responsible for all information in Chapters 16:
Ch. 1: Matter and Energy
All matter in the universe is composed of atoms bonded
Ch. 2: Atoms, Ions, and Molecules
together in a limited number of ways. Molecularity is one of
Ch. 3: Atomic Structure
a small number of fundamental themes of chemistry (and of
Ch. 4: Chemical Bonding
all science); it is important for us to address it immediately
Ch. 5: Bonding Theories
because it permeates all of chemistry. Specific concepts ex-
Ch. 6: Intermolecular Forces
plored in this course include:


The Quantum Structure of the Atom
The Periodic Table and Trends
OUTSIDE HELP
M*A*S*H / Tutor Program
The Nature of the Chemical Bond
Math and Science Help (M*A*S*H) for Ch1010 are led by
Lewis Dot Structures and VSEPR Geometries
with Ben Pulver <bdpulver@wpi.edu> and occur on:
Molecular Orbital Theory
Intermolecular Forces Mondays at 5 pm in the exam proctoring center (EPC)
Wed. at 1 pm in the academic resources center (ARC)
Professor Grimm may be contacted at rlgrimm@wpi.edu,
in person in room 3027 of the Life Sciences and Bioengi- Thursdays at 7 pm in the exam proctoring center (EPC)
neering Center in Gateway Park (60 Prescott), or 4165. Tutoring may be established through the M*A*S*H program.
Informal office hours exist through Chemtable (see below), See http://www.wpi.edu/+mash for details.
and one-on-one/small-group appointments may be arranged Chemtable Office Hours
via email or in person.
Professor Grimm will host a lunch table at Morgan Hall

COURSE FORMAT immediately following the Monday and Tuesday lectures,


and in GH103 following the Thursday lectures (except exam
Chemistry 1010 comprises four weekly lectures and one days). These informal lunchtime gatherings are designed to
weekly lab. Lectures meet throughout in AK116 at 11AM on provide forums for discussing chemistry in our society,
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. See the La- chemistry at the forefront of research and development, ap-
boratory part of this syllabus for lab meeting times, instruc- plication of our coursework to real-world problems, and the
tors, and teaching assistants. All labs are held in GH109. way that our coursework fits integrates with other studies at
Contact Prof. Grimm with scheduling issues. WPI. Chemtable will provide also provide a forum for dis-
Neither lectures nor labs will be held on Martin Luther cussing coursework and homework.
King Day (16 January). Lecture will not be held on Advising Pre-exam bonus reviews
Appointment Day (16 February), however labs will be held.
Professor Grimm will host bonus reviews from 15 PM on
See the global course schedule below for complete details.
the Wednesdays directly preceding the exam days in GH103.
REQUIRED MATERIALS Additional Books and the Goddard Hall Study Area
For the lectures, the required materials include the text- Four copies of the textbook and four solution manuals re-
book, and a scientific calculator. The textbook is Chemistry: main on reserve at the library for all four terms (A, B, C &
An Atoms-Focused Approach 1st ed. by Thomas R. Gilbert, D). Additionally, two copies of the textbook and two solu-
Rein V. Kirss, and Natalie Foster, and will be referred to as tion manuals are located in GH103. GH103 is designated as
GKF. A scientific calculator is required in all lectures. App- a quiet study area for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
based calculators are discouraged in lectures because phones, and will be open Mondays through Fridays during non-
tablets, etc. are strictly forbidden during exams. holiday daytimes.
Table 1. Point breakdown for the course. day. Upon realizing that a weekly assignment has not been
submitted, students should contact Professor Grimm imme-
Coursework Total pts. Percentage
diately via an email that includes photographs of the com-
Weekly homework assignments (5) 150 37.5% pleted work. Professor Grimm reserves the right to consider
Lecture exams (2) 150 37.5% the emails timestamp as the official submission time, how-
Laboratory 100 25% ever even late assignments must be physically submitted in
Total 400 100% order to receive a grade.
Lecture Exams

HOMEWORK AND EXAMS There will be two 75-point exams during this course that
cumulatively comprise 37.5% of the overall course grade.
Weekly homework, exams, and laboratory work comprise
the graded material in this course. Table 1 details the grad- Scheduling. Exams are scheduled for 3 February and 2
ing breakdown. Each section details the acceptable circum- March, weather permitting (see Schneetage!). Exams will
stances and penalties for late work. concentrate on recently-presented material, but may include
any coursework discussed in lecture up to and including the
Weekly Homework last lecture before the exam.
The weekly problem sets will consist of two to five long Inform Prof. Grimm as soon as possible of any personal or
form, challenging questions. The five Weeklies will be medical reason that requires you to miss an exam. Resched-
scored out of a total of 30 points each, and cumulatively rep- uling will occur at Prof. Grimms discretion. Otherwise,
resent 37.5% of the overall grade for the course. there will be NO makeup of missed exams.
Available for download on Canvas on the assigned date, When and where? Exams occur during regular class peri-
the weeklies must be submitted by 5PM in the Ch1010 lec- ods. The exams will be administered the lecture room.
ture section 2 box in GH103 on the respective due date. The Whats allowed? All exams are closed textbook and
third Weekly overlaps the first exam. Failure to submit all of closed notebook. Blank pages in the exam may be used as
the Weeklies will result in no record for the course. scratch paper but only material in the space provided for a
For the weeklies, please observe the following formatting particular problem will be graded for that problem. Scientific
notes: include your name and lab section number in the upper calculators are encouraged and almost certainly necessary.
right-hand corner of each page. You may write on both sides Calculators may be neither borrowed nor shared between
of the paper, but you must start each new problem on the top students during an exam. For the lecture exams, students
of the page, and a brief restatement of the original problem may also bring one 3 5 index card with anything on it,
statement MUST appear. Your solutions must clearly show provided that it was hand written by that particular student.
ALL of the steps that you took to obtain an answer. Graphs All six sides of the index card may be employed, and the in-
must be done either on graph paper or by computer with dex card must be submitted with the exam.
complete titles, labeled axes, clearly-marked data points, etc. On the Wednesday prior to each exam, Professor Grimm
Your submitted homework must also include a list of any will post a copy of what will be the first page of that exam on
computer programs or online resources employed in the Canvas. Containing equations and a periodic table, this page
solution to a particular program (i.e. cite your work!). contains no testing material and is designed to be detached
Collaboration on the Weeklies is encouraged, however, and used during the exam for reference. The intention in
you are responsible for individually submitting your own providing this page prior to the exam is to clarify what is be-
work in your own voice. Include names of students included ing provided for free, and to help students prepare their
in your discussions and collaborations on the Weeklies. 3 5 index card accordingly.
Extensions will only be granted in consultation with, and Whats forbidden? Phones (smart or otherwise), tablets,
at the discretion of Professor Grimm. Extensions will not be and other similar electronic devices that enable communica-
granted for regularly scheduled athletic activities as these tion with the outside world are forbidden during exams.
schedules are known in advance and may be accommodated Students seen with such devices will be immediately dis-
by the student. missed without prejudice, and will receive a zero for that
Late penalties will be 5n points off for work that is n days exam. Questions regarding allowed and forbidden items
late, and times past one minute will be rounded up to the should be addressed to Professor Grimm well in advance of
nearest day. Weekends do not collectively count as a single exam days.

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Table 3. Laboratory section details. Table 4. Weekly laboratory schedule.

Sect. Start Instructor Teaching Assistant Experiment Title Week


CX01 Mon 11A Wen-Chao Lai Vanesa Pinderi Quanta
1 1925 Jan
CX02 Mon 2P Ivan Mardilovich Josue Canales (Into the light!)
CX03 Tue 11A Wen-Chao Lai Vanesa Pinderi The Density Project
CX04 Wed 8A Ivan Mardilovich Arth Sharma 2 26 Jan 1 Feb
(How dense are you?)
CX05 Thu 11A Ivan Mardilovich Sam Carley
CX06 Fri 11A Wen-Chao Lai Sam Carley Conductivity
3 28 Feb
CX07 Fri 2P Ivan Mardilovich Kathleen Sheehy (Fight the Resistance!)
CX08 Mon 8A Ivan Mardilovich Arth Sharma Precipitation, Acid-Base, and Redox
CX09 Thu 8A Wen-Chao Lai Wes Rogers 4 915 Feb
(Cant get no good (reaction)!)
CX10 Tue 2P Ivan Mardilovich Josue Canales
Acid trip!
CX11 Wed 11A Ivan Mardilovich Maggie LaRoche 5 1622 Feb
(What needs clarified about that?)
CX12 Wed 2P Wen-Chao Lai Mariana Harley
CX13 Thu 2P Ivan Mardilovich Kathleen Sheehy Copper cycle
6 2329 Feb
CX14 Tue 8A Ivan Mardilovich Marissa Hull (Come to your cents(es)!)

LABORATORY Safety. Follow all safety rules and regulations. The in-
structor and TA may warn students up to two times for non-
Laboratory Safety Video and Quiz compliance, reserve the right to dismiss anyone from the lab
You must watch the safety video in the Lab Materials fold- for not following the safety regulations.
er on Canvas and earn 100% on the Lab Safety Quiz prior to Lab safety encompasses many facets of lab work and in-
any lab work (4 pts). The quiz may be downloaded from cludes these specific guidelines: ANSI Z87.1-compliant safe-
Canvas, and must be brought to the first lab period. ty goggles must be worn at all times; contact lenses are not
Laboratory Schedule permitted; wear appropriate clothing (no shorts, short skirts,
halter tops, or sandals); long hair must be tied back; no
Students must attend their registered section. Tables 3-4
smoking, drinking, eating, or chewing; no sitting on lab
details times, instructors, and TA information. Section
benches; and backpacks and bags must be placed in desig-
changes must be completed by 13 January.
nated areas. Vision-correcting safety glasses that meet ANSI
Labs start on 17 January, and follow the schedule detailed Z87.1 standards may substitute for safety goggles. The in-
in Table 4 and the course global schedule below. Note that structor and TA will address any questions or clarifications
labs do run during on the Advising Appointment Day, 16 as necessary.
February. Lab periods follow 2 hours, 50 minute schedules.
During the lab. While working on the experiment, record
Details of individual labs are located on Canvas.
any changes to the procedure in stepwise fashion, followed
Missed labs. All students must attend and complete all six by results and observations. The TA will check this infor-
experiments during the designated section time. Students mation and signs the lab notebook and records a lab note-
will not be allowed make-ups simply by attending a different book grade at the end of each lab period. Complete the lab
section. Under extenuating circumstances (serious illness or write up by answering focus questions for the experiment
family emergency) absence from exactly one lab period will following the lab. As mentioned below, the laboratory exam
be rescheduled, provided the course instructor is notified is an open-notebook test. Therefore, exam performance will
and a doctors note or an e-mail from the office of Academic be strongly coupled to the quality and detail of the in-lab
Advising is submitted to the instructor before or immediate- notes and observations.
ly upon return to class.
Notebooks. A bound notebook is required. Loose papers
Before each lab. Prior to the start of each laboratory pe- and spiral notebooks are not permitted. Lab notebooks are
riod, students must read the background and experiment. checked for a title, date, goal, procedure, and results. Num-
Print out the preparation questions, and hand-write the an- ber all pages, and reserve the first page for a table of contents.
swers to the preparation questions on the printout. The la- All writing must be done in permanent ink. A ball-point pen
boratory notebook must contain a hand-written date, title, with black ink is recommended, and pencils are forbidden.
goal and procedure of the experiment. Please do not print Write only on the right-hand-side pages of the notebook.
out the experiment to the lab.
Laboratory Exam
Entering the lab. Students will be given a briefing by the
TA, so be on time. Two points will be deducted from the lab A comprehensive, 48-point laboratory exam will be admin-
grade for that particular experiment for being up to 15 istered on the last day of class (3 March) during the regularly
minutes late. In arriving more than 15 minutes late, students scheduled lecture period and in the lecture room. The lab
may be denied lab participation. Answers to the preparation exam covers all six experiments. Your lab notebook and your
questions must be submitted to the TA. graded preparation sheets are allowed during this exam.

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Laboratory Grading in a flipped classroom format. Students will be responsible
As mentioned above, the lab represents 25% of the overall for all presented material. Announcements to Canvas will
course grade and must be passed to receive a course grade. clarify specific details.
Each lab is worth 8 points based on 4 points for answers to Regarding homework, the dailies will remain due at their
the preparation questions, and 4 points for the required regularly scheduled date and time, irrespective of school-
notebook contents. wide cancellations. Because Goddard Hall will be locked on
cancellation days, the weeklies will be due by 5PM on the
ALLOWED / FORBIDDEN IN CLASS next open school day. Announcements to Canvas will clarify
specific details.
In addition to the previously mentioned forbidden items
(e.g. phones, tablets, computers, etc. during exams) students In the case that a school-wide cancellation occurs on an
will not be allowed to utilize phones (smart or otherwise) at exam day, Professor Grimm will post materials for the next
any point during class. Notebook computers with upright subsequent lecture on Canvas, and that material will take the
screens and physical keyboards must not be open during place of the missed day. The exam will be rescheduled for
class. Notebook computers that may be configured to lie flat the subsequent lecture period, pending spillover room avail-
must be so configured. Tablets may not be propped up with ability. As above, announcements to Canvas will clarify spe-
eternal keyboards. Tablets and folded-flat computers are cific details.

COURSE GRADES
allowed for note taking, and any other use will result in dis-
missal from the classroom.
Voice recorders are strictly forbidden. Lectures will be As mentioned above, the laboratory comprises 25% of the
saved via video/audio capture and placed on Canvas each course grade, and the lecture comprises the balance. A grade
afternoon. Lecture slides will similarly be posted to Canvas will only be assigned for this course for students that
following each lecture. complete & submit all five Weeklies

SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS pass the lecture portion of the course (195 / 300 pts)
complete and submit all six laboratory experiments
If course adaptations or accommodations are required be-
cause of a disability, or if pertinent medical information may pass the lab portion of the course (65 / 100 pts)
impact performance or participation in this course, please As indicated above, a passing grade will be assigned only if a
make an appointment with both Professor Grimm and with passing grade is achieved in both the lecture portion and the
the appropriate laboratory instructor as soon as possible. laboratory portion of the course. Fractional percentages will
If not already done so, students with disabilities who need be rounded to two places after the decimal with passing
to utilize accommodations in this class are encouraged to strictly defined as achieving 65.00% and course grades as-
contact the Office of Disability Services (ODS) as soon as signed based on strict cutoffs of 90.00% for an A, and 80.00%
possible to ensure that such accommodations are imple- for a B.
mented in a timely fashion. This office may be contacted at
disabilityservices@wpi.edu, 4908, or in person at 137 Dan-
iels Hall. Online accommodation forms must be submitted
to Professor Grimm by the start of the second week of class
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
(17 January). In addition to the GKF textbook, the following resources
are utilized for lectures, handouts, worksheets, and exams:
Students requiring additional time for exams will take their
exams in the EPC at any point during the respective exam Chemical Principles: the Quest for Insight
days. Said students will be responsible for scheduling their Atkins and Jones
exam times with the EPC. Chemistry

SCHNEETAGE! (SNOWDAYS!)
Zumdahl and Zumdahl
Chemistry, the Central Science
WPI may cancel classes during C-term due to inclement Brown, LeMay, and Bursten
weather. In the case of a school-wide cancellation, lectures
will not be held. In lieu of an in-person lecture, Professor Principles of Modern Chemistry
Grimm will post videos and other course materials to Canvas Oxtoby, Gillis, and Nachtrieb

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GLOBAL COURSE SCHEDULE
The schedule below should remain accurate in regards to laboratory, homework, and exam schedules. However the day-to-day
lecture material may change somewhat depending on the pace of the class, die Schneetage, and other external factors.

Montag Dienstag Mittwoch Donnerstag Freitag

9 10 11 12 No lab 13 No lab

Introduction to Wavelike nature of light;


Molecularity Atomic spectra

Weekly 1 out

16 No lab 17 Lab #1 (3,10,14) 18 #1 (4,11,12) 19 Lab #1 (5,9,13) 20 Lab #1 (6,7)

Martin Luther King day Bohr model of the atom; Quantum numbers Electronic
No lecture Why Bohr is totally wrong Atomic orbitals configuration

Weekly 1 due, Weekly 2 out


Januar

23 Lab #1 (1,2,8) 24 Lab #2 (3,10,14) 25 #2 (4,11,12) 26 Lab #2 (5,9,13) 27 Lab #2 (6,7)

Electronic The periodic table Periodic trends: The nature of the


configuration Periodic trends in size IE, EA, electronegativity chemical bond

Weekly 2 due, Weekly 3 out

30 Lab #2 (1,2,8) 31 Lab #3 (3,10,14) 1 #3 (4,11,12) 2 Lab #3 (5,9,13) 3 Lab #3 (6,7)

Lewis dot symbols Resonance Bonus Catch-up;


Lewis structures Formal charge review Review Lecture Exam 1

6 Lab #3 (1,2,8) 7 Lab #4 (3,10,14) 8 #4 (4,11,12) 9 Lab #4 (5,9,13) 10 Lab #4 (6,7)

Bond lengths and strengths VSEPR VSEPR Shapes, polarity, and


Exceptions to Lewis theory applications dipoles, oh, my!

Weekly 3 due, Weekly 4 out

13 Lab #4 (1,2,8) 14 Lab #5 (3,10,14) 15 #5 (4,11,12) 16 Lab #5 (5,9,13) 17 Lab #5 (6,7)

Hybrid atomic orbitals Chirality and Academic advising day Introduction to molecular
Molecular orbital shapes molecular recognition (no class but labs still run!) orbital (MO) theory

Weekly 4 due, Weekly 5 out


Februar

20 Lab #5 (1,2,8) 21 Lab #6 (3,10,14) 22 #6 (4,11,12) 23 Lab #6 (5,9,13) 24 Lab #6 (6,7)

MO theory for Molecular orbitals Intermolecular forces Intermolecular forces


small molecules and spectroscopy between nonpolar molecules between polar molecules

Weekly 5 due

27 Lab #6 (1,2,8) 28 No lab 1 No lab 2 No lab 3 No lab

Hydrogen bonding, Catch-up; Bonus


water, and solubility Review review Lecture Exam 2 Lab Exam

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