1Department of Chemistry, Youngstown State UniversityProfessor Allen D. HunterChemistry 500 , Chemistry in Modern LivingSpring 2000 (Updated on April 6th, 2000)Credit: 4 Quarter Hours of Credit (4 Hours per Week of Lecture)Q2S Notice: Under Semesters this course will become Chemistry 1500: Chemistry in ModernLiving. It will have 3 Semester Hours of Credit (3 Hours per Week of Lecture)with a total of 5 hours of increased contact time which will be used to cover morespecial topics.Lecturer: Dr. Allen Hunter (Office 5015, NMR Lab 5031, X-Ray Lab 5024/5020,Advanced Synthesis Lab 5005)Phone: 742-7176 (Office - includes voice mail)E-mail: [email protected] Page: http://www.as.ysu.edu/~adhunter/index.htmlRequired Texts: 1. Schwartz, A. T.; Bunce, D. M.; Silberman, R. G.; Stanitski, C. L.;Stratton, W. J.; Zipp, A. P. “Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry toSociety”, 2nd Edition, © 1997 or 3rd Edition © 2000, The American ChemicalSociety and Wm. C. Brown Publishers(required), the publisher’s WEB site is:http://www.mhhe.com/cic. [Note: This quarter is expected to be the last quarter inwhich we will use the 2nd Edition.]2. Problem Sets and Answers, Old Exams and Answers, and Outline Notes forEach Section of Material to be Covered:http://www.as.ysu.edu/~adhunter/Teaching/Chem500/index.html (required).Lecture: Tuesday and Thursday 7:40 to 9:30 PM. WB 6030.Office Hours:Monday 10:30 to 12:00, Wednesday 2:00 to 3:00, and Tuesday and Thursday 7:00to 7:40 and 9:30 to 9:50. Please feel free to drop in and see me any time duringmy office hours or during the rest of the week. If you want to be sure to have methere at a specific time outside of my office hours, make an appointment duringclass, over the phone, or via email. I’ll generally be in WB 5015 (my office), WB6030 (the Chemistry Department Office or Conference Room), 5031 (the NMRlab), or 5024/5020 (the X-ray lab) at these other times.Goals and Objectives of Chemistry 500. Chemistry 500 is a General Education Course that isdesigned to meet the needs of students who are not science or technology majors. The centralgoal of Chemistry 500 is to give you an appreciation of how Chemists approach questionsrelevant to your every day life. This will be done by studying particular issues/themes that are ofnational importance and/or that are prominent in the news. These topics will be studied from a“chemical” perspective and you will be introduced to the basic tools that chemists use (atoms,molecules, reactions, analysis, etc.) when attempting to answer questions about them. At the end2of this class, it is my hope that you will have developed a better appreciation of the role thatChemistry plays in our lives, of the scientific method as applied to many topical issues, and ofhow a Chemist attempts to answer questions.Preliminary Schedule of Thematic Topics:Theme of the Topic Topic(s) Relevant Chemical TopicsChapter(s)2nd(3rd)Edn.The Air We Breathe 1 States of Matter, Reactions, andRisk1(1)Protecting the Ozone Layer 2 Atoms and Light 2(2)The Chemistry of Global Warming 3 Molecular Structures and Moles 3(3)Energy, Chemistry, and Society 4 Thermodynamics, Kinetics, andFossil Fuels4(4)The Fires of Nuclear Fission 5 Atomic Structure, Nuclear Fissionand Fusion, and Nuclear Weapons8(7)New Energy Sources for the NewCentury6 Alternative “Green” EnergySources9(8)Manipulating Molecules andDesigning Drugs7 Organic Chemistry 11(10)Nutrition: Food for Thought (not in2000)8 Biochemistry 12(11)The World of Plastics and Polymers 9 Polymer/Materials Science 10(9)* The order and relative weighting of these topics is likely to change. We will cover the firstthree topics in depth each year and then cover the remaining topics in varying depths (varying theemphasis in different quarters). This will give you an overview of chemistry as well as specificexamples at greater depth of the application of Chemistry to a range of topical issues.Grading:100 Mid-terms (approximately the 4th and 8th weeks, each is 25% of quarter’s grade)100 Final Exam (Tuesday June 6th at 8:00 PM} or Term Paper {due Friday June 2ndat noon}200 Total PointsGrade Ranges: 90-100% - A; 75-89% - B; 60-74% - C; 50-59% - D; <50% - F[Note: No grading curve is used and the official attendance record is used to help assignborderline grades.]Attendance: Lecture attendance is mandatory and will be recorded through daily sign-insheets. It is your responsibility to be sure you sign up if you are present (i.e., if you do not signin then you are officially absent). These official attendance records will be used in assigninggrades and missing more than 10% of the lectures for which I have attendance records will3adversely effect your grade. In addition, if you miss more than 10% of the lectures, you will notbe allowed to write the term paper and instead will be required to write the final exam. Cominglate to class or leaving early are disruptive to the lectures and to the other students. Be on time!!!Exams: The quizzes and final exams will cover the materials presented in the lectures, much ofwhich is not in the textbook. Questions on exams in this course typically require paragraph orpage length written explanations (which should typically include diagrams and/or equations) or“chemical” answers (e.g., equations, molecular formulae, or molecular structures). They are beststudied by working through problem sets and old exams which are available on my WEB site.MAKE-UP EXAMS WILL NOT BE GIVEN. Absences that have not been approved inadvance will result in a grade of ZERO for that quiz/exam. Approved absences for sportingevents, holidays, etc., will be given only if I am informed in advance and only if I agree.Unexpected absences for health reasons, family emergencies, etc., must be discussed with mewithin 24 hours of the missed quizzes for approval to be granted. The points for exams/quizzesmissed during approved absences will be applied to the final exam. In all cases, I must be given awritten note explaining the reason for the approved absence and asking to have the points appliedto the final exam within one week of the missed exam. If you believe that your exam/quiz hasbeen miss-graded or miss-totaled, the unaltered exam must be submitted for re-grading within48 hours after it has been returned. The whole quiz/exam will be re-graded, not just singlequestions.No “extra point” activities are available for this course so you will need to start