COURSE OUTLINE

 

 

FOR

 

 

CHEMISTRY 112

 

 

 

 

 

MIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Columbia, SC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revised 12/02

Bert Knesel

 

 

CHM 112          General and Organic Chemistry   Credits 4.0 hrs.

 

Prerequisite:  CHM 110 or equivant;  Students cannot receive credit for both Chm 111 and Chm 112.

 

Class Meetings: Wednesday, January 15-Wednesday, April 30.

Holidays: Monday, January 20; Spring Break, March 10-14.

Lecture: 9:05-10:25 MW; Lab 10:45-1:35 W

Final exam: Wednesday, May 7, 8:30-10:00am

 

Course Description:  This course covers the topics of solution chemistry, kinetics, acid/base aqueous equilibrium, electrochemistry, and nuclear chemistry in the first part of the semester.  The latter portion of the course is a survey of organic chemistry and biochemistry.

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Instructor:         Dr. Bert Knesel, office 421J LET, office phone 738-7660, fax 790-7530, e-mail

                       kneselb@midlandstech,com, home phone 783-6968

 

Textbooks:        "Chemistry-The Central Science", Brown, LeMay, and Bursten, ninth edition; textbook, solution manual, and lab manual.

                      

                       Equipment:        Scientific calculator and safety glasses.

 

Attendance:      The maximum allowable absences are twice the number of meetings per week (lecture or lab).  Students adding courses after classes begin are responsible for work covered from the first day of classes.  All classes missed are counted as absences.

 

Grades:             The course grade will be equal to 75% of the lecture grade plus 25% of the laboratory grade.  The lecture grade is the average of four tests.  There is no comprehensive final exam.  For the final exam, a student may retest one of the four tests.  The laboratory grade is the average of the grades on each experiment.  There is no laboratory test.  A student is allowed one laboratory absence without a grade penalty.  The grading ranges are A (100-90), B (89- 80), C (79-70),

                       D (69-60), F (below 60). 

                      

Study guides:    Study guides with objectives and specific skills will be given to the students for each test.

 

Science Department Chair Statement:

The science department chair, coordinators, and faculty are here to help you.  If you are having any problems in your classes, please contact the people who can help you.  If we don't know that you are having problems, we can't help you.  (Dr. Perry Carter, 822-3443,Dr. Gerry Hoffman, Airport coordinator 822-3788, Dr. Bert Knesel, Beltline coordinator 738-7660)

 

Additional policies for the science department are available in the following locations:

Robinson 106, Airport and Beltline Libraries, LET 421.

 

Disabilities Statement:  Students with disabilities requiring in-class accommodations should call the Counseling/Disabilities Resource Center at 822-3505.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LABORATORY SCHEDULE

 

Week                                                                                                                     Experiment

 

First                            KNO3 Solubility

 

Second                        Qualitative Analysis

 

Third                           Distillation: Raoult's Law: Gas Chromatography

 

Fourth                         Melting Point Determination

 

Fifth                            Gravimetric Analysis of Chloride, Exp 8

 

Sixth                           pH Titration: Buffers

 

Seventh                       KMnO4 Standardization: Normality

 

Eighth                         Oxalic Acid Unknown

 

Ninth                          Colorimetry

 

Tenth                          Synthesis of Aspirin

 

Eleventh                      Analysis of Aspirin

 

Twelfth                       Infrared Spectroscopy

 

Thirteenth                    Thin Layer Chromatography

 

Fourteenth                   Molecular Models