CHEMISTRY 20A GENERAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL STRUCTURE Winter 2003 MWF 8 00 8 50 AM WGYoung CS24 DESCRIPTION This is the first course in general chemistry designed for physical science and engineering majors INSTRUCTOR Prof Mahdi Abu Omar 1515 Molecular Sciences Bldg ext 6 2602 OFFICE HOURS T W 9 00 10 00 am Questions can also be sent via WWW to Virtual Office Hours VOH under the Chemistry Department Home Page or http voh chem ucla edu TAs will arrange their own office hours Students may attend the office hours of any TA and not just their own TAs Sylvia Daoud Kinzie and Lee McPherson TEXTBOOK Required Principles of Modern Chemistry 5th edition by Oxtoby Gillis and Nachtrieb Optional Study Guide for Principles of Modern Chemistry READING HW You should read assigned chapters before lecture and should do the suggested homework problems as a minimum Homework problems will not be graded Your TA will give occasional surprise quizzes during discussion it is your responsibility to do the assigned homework in order to master the material EXAMS One 50 minute midterm exam is scheduled for Wednesday February 12 during the regular lecture time slot The 3 hour final will be comprehensive and is scheduled for Friday March 21 at 11 30 a m 2 30 p m room TBA NO MAKE UP EXAMS WILL BE GIVEN GRADING Sum of quizzes 250 midterm exam 350 and the final exam 400 The class is graded on a curve rather than an absolute scale Useful web sites http pearl1 lanl gov periodic default htm http www chem ucla edu webspectra http web chem ucla edu 7Emouser cic http www nslc ucla edu CHEMISTRY 20A Tentative Lecture Schedule LECTURE TOPIC January 6 8 Modern Chemistry From macroscopic to microscopic and back grams to moles tomolecules Winter 2003 January 10 13 15 17 Classical Chemical Bonding Lewis Structure Covalent and Ionic Bonding and Shapes of molecules VSEPR January 22 February 5 Quantum Chemistry The battle of waves particles and periodic trends February 7 10 14 19 MO and VB February 12 Midterm Exam Ch 1 2 3 and 15 February 21 24 Introduction to Spectroscopy February 26 28 Introduction to Organic Functional Groups March 3 5 7 10 Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry March 12 Intermolecular Forces March 21 Final Examination Comprehensive READING HW Problems Ch 1 2 Ch 1 20 24 30 42 Ch 2 12 16 20 26 32 Ch 3 Ch 3 24 28 36 38 42 46 54 60 80 90 Ch 15 Ch 15 4 6 12 14 22 26 28 32 34 38 40 48 60 66 90 86 Ch 16 1 16 3 Ch 16 2 16 18 24 26 36 Ch 17 1 17 4 Ch 17 12 14 18 30 Ch 20 1 20 3 Ch 20 4 8 10 12 14 Ch 18 Ch 18 10 18 24 28 34 40 42 62 Room TBA Ch 5 2 5 3 11 30 a m 2 30 p m