General Chemistry Course Goals

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Course Overview
Instructor Fred J. Grieman Graders/Mentors
Lizzie Aby
Janice Joo Alex Scharr
Authored by Fred J. Grieman
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Course Philosophy

• To teach you chemistry at an appropriate level to
  prepare you for your next step in science
• Research
• Medicine
• Entrepreneur
• Policy
• Industry
• Informed Citizen

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Responsibilities

• Mine
• Present material in interesting thorough way
• Teach at appropriate level
• Evaluate your knowledge and performance
• Yours
• Work hard use resources to learn material
• Complete work on time come prepared
• Take active part in your learning

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Resources

• Lecturer
• Lab coordinator instructors
• Lab assistants
• Graders/Mentors
• Tutors
• Department Coordinator
• Stockroom Manager
• Electronics Tech
• Machinist
• Librarians

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General Chemistry Course Goals

• Lecture
• Establish Basics
• Build on Basics to create Foundation
• 
  Framework
• Tools to use in subsequent courses and in
  career/life
• Create a way of viewing the World

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General Chemistry Course Goals

• Laboratory
• Chemical Principles from Lecture More
• Laboratory Technique
• Experimental Design Considerations
• Data Analysis Presentation
• Observation and Discovery

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• Laboratory Experiments
• Last semester 4 classes of reactions What
  were they?
• Qualitatively Precipitation Acid/Base
  Redox Complexation
• (5 Anion)
• Quantitatively Gravimetric Volumetric
  Gasiometric Complexiometric
• Calcium
  Oxalate KHP
  Nitrite Ca Zn EDTA
• Thermodynamics ? Keq(T) ? Electrochemistry
• This semester Chemical Structure, Properties,
  Reactions
• Excel Data Analysis chemical property from
  slope and intercept
• Electrochemical Cells Thermodynamics (last
  sem.)
• Enthalpy of Reaction Thermodynamics (last
  sem.)
• Colorimetric Mn Spectroscopy (this sem.)
• Neutron Activation Study of the nucleus,
  nuclear decay (this sem.)

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Course Outline

• Nuclear Chemistry
• Particles, Energy, Stability Nuclear
  processes and kinetics
• Nuclear Analytical techniques
• Quantum Chemistry
• I. Fundamentals Atoms
• particles/wavesphase/interferenceenergy
  levels orbitals
• multielectron atoms periodic properties
• II. Molecules
• localized electron pair molecular orbital
  theory diatomics, polyatomics, localized
  bonding, spectroscopy
• III. Transition Metals Coordination Compounds
• Complexation Crystal Field Theory Ligand Field
  Theory

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Course Outline

• IV. Chemical Kinetics
• Reaction rates measurements reaction
  mechanisms catalysts temperature effects
  collision theory
• V. Condensed Matter
• Intermolecular forces liquids solutions and
  colligative properties Solids

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