Principles of Chemistry I
Chemistry 1211
Announcements:
Because I know you miss it (and it’s relatively easy points), there is
one LAST Mastering Chemistry assignment
(Homework 10) on Chapter 5, due before the exam on Wednesday Dec 7. This is NOT
optional.
On Tuesday, Dec 6 from noon to 1 pm there will be available an
instructor-led review session for the Final.
It will be in the Science Hall, W3009 (where your SI sessions were).
Office hours during finals:
Friday
Dec 2: 2-3 :30
pm
Monday
Dec 5: noon – 3 pm
Tuesday
Dec 6: 11-noon and 1 – 2.
Wednesday
Dec 7: 11- 1 am
Thursday
and Friday: not available
The Final Exam will be Wednesday Dec 7 at
1-3 pm...same location as all the rest of your
tests. It is a standardized exam
published by the American Chemical Society and will cover all topics from the
semester, including Chapter 5 which we will discuss the week after
Thanksgiving.
Daily Problem The
date the problem is due is used as the hyperlink. Legibility counts! Make every effort to keep your answers to one
piece of paper. If more are required,
they must be STAPLED together. Any pages
without names, or not stapled to the first page will not be graded, nor will
solutions that are not easily readable. Your
explanation is worth more than the actual answer!! If two choices have
the same answer, either circle the two to indicate they are the same or put
them in the same blank. “The same” is
different than “any order”.
NONE!
Materials and Links
Mastering Chemistry Website Course Code: MCMYERS07984
Directions for accessing
Mastering Chemistry
Keeping a
laboratory notebook, updated
Periodic Table (From the
same file I use to create the one attached to tests.)
Studying for Chemistry:
Recommended study time for science
classes is a minimum of 2 hours of study for each hour in class. These should be spread out rather than weekly
or just before a test. What can you do
for two hours? Consider some of the
suggestions below...find out what works best for you.
Possible study time activities: Review/rewrite notes checking against text for
accuracy and completeness; List vocabulary, formulas or anything else that must
be memorized and make flash cards; Work and
rework in-class examples,
in-text examples, daily problems, end-of-chapter problems and mastering
chemistry problems relevant to the day’s material (without looking at the answers); Check your answers against the key at the end of text or solutions
manuals in library (ask as circulation desk); Guess what questions might be
on a quiz or test, create your own quiz and make sure you know the answers; Pretend
you will be allowed one page of “help” for the next quiz/test, decide what you
would put on it, how you would organize it...then do it (but you won’t actually
get to use it on a quiz or TEST!); Visit the tutor center for help with anything
that is unclear; Use other chemistry texts for more example problems or different
ways of seeing the information (this class hasn’t changed much in 10 years,
check out libraries, the tutor center, what you can buy for a dollar from
Amazon...); email me if you have something to add to this list.