CHEMISTRY 104 Lecture 5 Spring 2011 Keep This Syllabus for Future Reference General Chemistry 104 5 credit hours Lectures 3 30 PM MWF 1351 Chemistry Lecturer Dr Oana M Martin Office Room 5232 Chemistry Office Hours M 4 30 5 30 PM and W 2 20 3 15 PM Email omartin chem wisc edu Quizzes Given in the second discussion section each week Chemistry 104 is the second semester of a first year course in college chemistry Students in Chemistry 104 are presumed to have taken Chemistry 103 or its equivalent Required Material Unless you already have it you will need to purchase each item listed below These are the only required items for this lecture Textbook Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity 7th ed Kotz Treichel Townsend Brooks Cole 2009 Lab Manual Chemistry 104 Laboratory Manual Spring 2011 Chemistry Department University of Wisconsin Madison available in the chemistry building lobby from Alpha Chi Sigma sold cash only during the first two weeks of class Lab Notebook Carbonless laboratory notebook with duplicate pages available from Alpha Chi Sigma or local bookstores You can continue to use your 103 lab notebook until you run out of pages Safety Goggles Industrial quality eye protection is required at all times when you are in the lab Safety goggles that completely seal around the eyes and fit over regular glasses can be purchased from local bookstores USB Flash Drive A USB flash drive that will hold at least 2 GB is required for lab data collection Calculator An inexpensive calculator is required It should have capabilities for square roots logarithms and exponentiation antilogarithms and exponential scientific notation operations The calculator will be used on homework assignments quizzes exams and in the lab Web Based Course Materials and Class Emails To access Web based materials you must have activated your UW Madison NetID so you have an ID and password You probably have already done this If not activate your NetID by going to http my wisc edu clicking on Activate your NetID and following the directions You may also change your NetID password at this same Web site Much information about this course will be transmitted via email using an automated email list based on registration in the course It is best to use your wisc edu email for UW Madison communications You can tell your other email accounts to forward to your wisc edu email account or vice versa 1 A free online textbook for this course is at http www2 chemeddl org services chempaths Read the page and click on the link How Do I Use This Site in the menu Next click on UW Madison Chem 104 2011 to access the textbook The online textbook can be used as a supplementary resource as needed Moodle Web Site Much of Chem 104 is only available via Moodle a course management system similar to Learn UW You automatically have access to the 104 materials in Moodle if you are enrolled in this course You can use Moodle on your own computer a friend s computer or any other computer on campus Direct your Web browser to https courses chem wisc edu If necessary log in by entering your NetID and Password Look for two courses Chemistry 104 Lecture 5 Spring 2011 and Chemistry 104 Study Questions Click on Chemistry 104 Lecture 5 Spring 2011 to see your assignments this is the main course Chemistry 104 Study Questions provides questions like the homework questions in the main course for extra practice Log in to Chemistry 104 Spring 2011 Lecture 5 in Moodle as soon as possible Using the link in the center panel or on the Quizzes page Quizzes is in Assignments panel on the left work on the Practice Quiz which is designed to check your computer to make sure it will do everything you will need during the semester Do the Practice Quiz on the computer you are most likely to use for online homework assignments and tutorials this semester The Practice Quiz is due at 11 55 PM Monday Jan 24 but don t wait until the last minute to do it If you have trouble getting your own computer to do the Practice Quiz use a computer in the chemistry building to complete the assignment If you change computers during the semester do the Practice Quiz on the new computer to be sure everything works Also begin to work on Homework 1 which is due at 11 55 PM on Monday January 24 Gen Chem Computer Room All of the software you need for this course as well as access to the Internet and Moodle is available in the General Chemistry Computer Room room 1327 on the first floor of Chemistry If you have trouble with running software for any of your assignments on your own computer or on a computer at some other location you can always go to the Gen Chem Computer Room to do the assignment Safety Quiz Before your first lab period you must take a Safety Quiz and achieve a perfect score The Safety Quiz is available in Moodle under the second week s assignments or on the Quizzes page If you carefully read the safety pages pp xix to xxii in your lab manual before taking the Safety Quiz you should have no difficulty getting a perfect score Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct You will be writing laboratory reports and answers to questions on Moodle Quizzes in this course It is not OK to simply copy and paste material from the Web into these reports or answers The UW Madison Writing Center has a good description of how to paraphrase or quote material that you did not write yourself It is available at http writing wisc edu Handbook QuotingSources html Also read Appendix 3 Writing for the Sciences in your laboratory manual This gives good information about how to write up an experiment including how to cite references Copying results or answers to quizzes homeworks or examinations from someone else and passing them off as your own work is academic misconduct and will not be tolerated Such misconduct is grounds for a failing grade in this course More information is provided later in this syllabus The complete syllabus is on the Web in Moodle at https courses chem wisc edu You should use Moodle to read it NOW It contains information about how your final grade will be determined and much more 2 Course Organization This course has been designed and organized to help you learn chemistry but no course or instructor can learn for you Learning is something only you ca n do For that reason you are the most important feature of the course This means that you will need to devote considerable out of class time to studying the subject The rest of this syllabus outlines the features of the course than will help you