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CH 204 – Introduction to Chemical Practice Fall 2006 Instructor: Dr. Brian Anderson Office: WEL 5.220A Phone: (512) 4756729 Email: [email protected] Web Site: http://courses.cm.utexas.edu/banderson/ch204/ Office hours: Thursday 9:00 – 10:00 or by appointment – don’t hesitate to ask! Teaching Assistants: See page 9 of this syllabus for a listing of all TA’s and section numbers TA office hours: Cubicle C (1st floor of WEL building). Tuesday 11:00 – noon Daniel Propheter / Evelyn Rosen 1:00 – 2:00 Si Chon Lao / Christina Wales Wednesday 11:00 – noon Yushan Yeh / Audrea Buckley 1:00 – 2:00 Monica Villa / Ryan Patman Thursday 11:00 – noon Travis Hesterberg / Josh Biberdorf Storeroom: Ethan Greene WEL 4.134 Undergraduate Chemistry Office: WEL 2.212 Phone: (512) 4711567, (512) 471 4983 Address all quest ions regarding registration, adds, drops, etc. to this office. The last date to drop this course without possible academic penalty is Sept 27, 2006. The last day to drop this course for academic reasons is October 25, 2006. Required course materials and supplies 1. Leytner, S. General Chemistry Lab Manual; McGrawHill Higher Education, Fall 2006 edition (available through the University Coop). 2. A bound laboratory notebook with duplicate numbered pages (sold by the University Coop or Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society). 3. Combination lock. 4. Calculator. What to expect in this class This is a handson course designed to teach you a variety of laboratory skills, including the proper use and handli ng of glassware, techniques and processes common to many scientific labs, and standard methods for recording observations and data. The course consists of a weekly one hour lecture immediately followed by a fourhour lab. Lectures The lectures each week will cover the theoretical background for the experiment being performed, and also provide practical tips for carrying out the experiment and sample calculations to help get you started on the writeup. You are strongly encouraged to take notes during the lectures since some of the material covered is not contained within the textbook or the laboratory manual. There will also be short quizzes given at the end of each lecture session, covering the previous week’s material. Quizzes Quizzes will typically be 3 – 4 questions and you will have about 10 – 15 minutes to complete them. The quizzes will cover material related to the experiment you performed the week prior in lab. Questions are drawn from the previous week’s lecture, the lab manual introduction to2 the experiment, the prelab and postlab problems, and experimental procedures and calculations required for the previous week’s lab. There will be a total of 10 quizzes. The lowest quiz grade will be dropped and the rest will count towards 30% of your grade. No makeup quizzes will be offered. If you miss a quiz for any reason, that will be the one you drop. Laboratory The lab oratory is the backbone of the course, and accounts for 70% of your grade. Most of the experiments will be performed individually; the last three will be performed in groups of two. Do not hesitate to ask your TA whenever you have questions or are not sure how to perform certain tasks. You will not be penalized for asking questions. Lab reports are comprised of three sect ions: PreLab, Report, and PostLab. These should all be written out in your lab notebook, and each one should start on a new page. Tear out the COPY page from your notebook to turn in each assignment. 1. Prelab – Each experiment in the Lab Manual includes five PreLab questions. These should be done before coming to lab and are due during the first 5 minutes of lab on the day the lab is performed. Each Prelab is worth 5 points. A late penalty of 0.5 point (10%) grade reduction per day ( excluding weekends a nd school holidays) will be assessed for prelabs turned in after the deadline. 2. Report – The report includes the title of the exp eriment, the objectives of the experiment (written in your own words), chemical equations for any chemical reactions that will be carried out as part of that experiment, all data and collected during the experiment and any observations made, and conclusions, such as identification of unknowns. The report a lso includes answers to the Discussion Questions sect ion of the experiment in the Lab Manual. These questions should be answered in complete sentences, not simple oneword answers. The Report is due one week after the experiment is performed. Every Rep ort is worth 40 points. A late penalty of 4 points (10%) grade reduction per day ( excluding weekends a nd holidays) will be assessed for r eports turned in after the deadline. 3. Postlab – Each experiment in the Lab Manual also includes a PostLab page of five problems relating to the chemistry covered in that experiment. Answers to the PostLab problems are due with your Report one week aft er the experiment is performed. Every Postlab is worth 10 points. Remember to show your work. A late penalty of a 1 point (10%) grade reduction per day (excluding weekends and holidays) will be assessed for the PostLabs turned in after the deadline. The PostLab for Experiment 7 is due one week after completing the first part of the lab. 4. Unknown Summary Sheet (if applicable) – As part of some experiments (2, 3, 4, 7, and 8), you are required to identify an unknown compound or calculate the concentration of an unknown solution. These results are reported on an Unknown Summary Sheet, which is turned in along with your Report one week after finishing the experiment. Every Unknown Summary Sheet is worth 20 points, and will be graded based solely on accuracy. The same late penalty of a 10% grade r eduction per day (excluding weekends and holidays) will be assessed for late Reports and late Unknown Summary Sheets. All lab assignments are due during the first 5 minutes of lab. Turn in any late papers directly to one of the CH204 TA’s, to me, or to Ethan in the stockroom (4.134) as soon as possible. Do not wait until the next week to turn in late papers. The penalty is assessed daily, so each day you wait to turn something in means more points lost.3 What you should do BEFORE you come to lab It is important that you prepare for each week’s experiment in advance: · Read and understand the


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