Humboldt State University ® Department of Chemistry

Richard A. Paselk

Chem 107
Fundamentals of Chemistry


Section 1; TR 0930-1050 SCIB 135

Tentative Laboratory Schedule - Fall 2008

Office: SA560a
Office Hours: TRF 1100-1150; W 1400-1550 other times by appointment
Phone: x 5719
Home: 822-1116
e-mail: rap1@humboldt.edu

Syllabus: See Fundamentals of Chemistry on my Web Page (http://www.humboldt.edu/~rap1)

Quizzes:

There will be quizzes given most weeks in the lab, as noted in the schedule below. The quizzes will be administered during the first part of the lab period - if you are late you will have less time to take the quiz! Quiz topics will be noted below by the Friday before each quiz.

Week

Date

Topic

Reading*

1 8/25-29 Check-in; Lab Safety; Safety Quiz
2 9/1-5

Labor Day Holiday, Monday, 1 September - No Labs this week!

 
   

 No Quiz

 
3 9/8-12 Lab Measurement, Sig Figs  
     Quiz 1 : Chap 1&2: What is Chem; Sci & Sci Meth.; Matter, Mass & Energy, Chemical Laws.  
4 9/15-19 Density  
      Quiz 2 : Sig Figs & Sci Notation; Metric System (prefixes, conversions, etc.); Dimentional Analysis problem (e.g. density problem).  
5 9/22-26 Determination of the Formula of a Chemical Compound  
     Quiz 3 : Isotope table problem; Element Names & Symbols; Blocks, groups etc. for Periodic table.  
6 9/29-10/3 Determination of a Molecular Weight  
     Quiz 4 : Electronic configurations for atoms & ions; Lewis Structures for Atoms and Simple Ions  
7 10/6-10 Lewis Structures (problem set - COMPLETE BEFORE LAB)/Molecular Geometry  
     Quiz 5 : Oxidation Numbers (use rules to find); Periodicity and the Periodic Table (trends, etc.)  
   

Exam in Thursday Lecture

 
8 10/13-17 Analysis of Vitamin C  
     Quiz 6 : Predicting Molecular Geometry with VSEPR and Lewis Structures.  
9 10/20-24

Ionic Reactions and Net Ionic Equations

     Quiz 7 : Mass problems (%, mass to moles, moles to mass, mass to atoms)  
10 10/27-31 Thermochemistry  
     Quiz 8 : Solution Concentrations; Net Ionic Equations (review nomenclature etc.)  
11 11/3-7 Gas Laws  
    Quiz 9 : Redox Balancing (acid solution); Reaction Stoichiometry (e.g. Theoretical Yield, Empirical Formula, etc.).  
12 11/10-14

Veteran's Day, Tuesday, 11 November - Campus CLOSED - No Labs this week!

 
   

 No Quiz

 
   

Exam in Thursday Lecture

 
13 11/17-21 The Molar Volume of Oxygen  
     Quiz 10 : Gas Law problem and molarity/concentration problem  
14 11/24-28

Thanksgiving Holiday

15 12/1-5 Acid-Base Titration  
     Quiz 11: Gas Law problems - Dalton's Law and/or Avogadro's Principle  
16 12/8-12 Check-out; Course Evaluation
     Quiz 12: Be able to label and interpret a reaction progress diagram; Use Le Chatelier's Principle to predict the response of an equilibrium reaction to different "stresses" (e.g. adding reactants or products, changing gas pressure, etc.)  

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