CHEMISTRY 139H1 S COURSE INFORMATION Summer 2005

E-MAIL: chm139@utoronto.ca WEBSITE: http://chm139.artsci.utoronto.ca

LECTURERS

Dr. K. Quinlan (Course Spokesperson)
Lash Miller Laboratories, Rm. 226 416-946-0743
kquinlan@chem.utoronto.ca
Office Hours: T, W 2-3 LM 226 or 227 and by appointment

LAB COORDINATOR

Ms. M. Morgan
Lash Miller Laboratories, Rm. 117 416-946-8242 or
mmorgan@chem.utoronto.ca 416-978-5286

On behalf of the Department of Chemistry, we would like to welcome you to CHM139H – Chemistry: Physical Principles. This outline is designed to provide you with information about the course, to let you know what we hope to do and to point out what we expect from you.

The two chemistry courses CHM 138H and 139H are designed to jointly provide a general introduction to chemistry for students who intend to follow a science program, primarily in the Life or Health Sciences. They are also the recommended courses for those applying for entry into professional programs. CHM 138H and 139H are also acceptable in the Chemistry specialist program. We believe that CHM 138H and CHM 139H will prepare you well for other chemistry courses in later years. If these are to be your only courses in chemistry, we trust you will have gained some understanding of the breadth of the subject and of its importance in a wide variety of other areas of science.

COURSE OVERVIEW

The main goal of CHM139H is to present the physical principles that are important in chemistry. We will cover six topics presented in six units:

The recommended textbook for the course is "Chemistry, 3rd Edition" by Olmsted and Williams (Wiley, 2002). NOTE: The book will NOT be followed section by section! The textbook is intended as a reference book to supplement the lecture material. There is also a supplement to this text: Students' Solution Manual which contains solutions to the odd-numbered problems found in the main text. You are not required to purchase these, but they may be quite helpful in your studies. You should attempt to solve the problems and read about the concepts in the recommended text, or in any other general chemistry book. Many general chemistry books are found in the QD33 section of the libraries.

COURSE WEBSITE

The course website will serve as the primary source for much of the information upon which you need to remain up-to-date. The course lecture notes, tutorial assignments, test information and other course material are posted frequently on the website as the course progresses. Visit the course website on a regular basis! To access the CHM 139H course website, follow the simple instructions below.

1) Using a web browser, go to the website: http://chm139.artsci.utoronto.ca.
2) To access the lecture notes, enter "chm139" as the username and "quantum" as password and click OK. The User Name and Password are case-sensitive.
3) Follow Steps 1 and 2 repeatedly throughout the course of the term!

LECTURES

There are three lectures (2.5 hours each) per week. Make every effort to attend all CHM139H lectures since it is here that the fundamental content of the course will be presented and elucidated. Keep in mind that the summer course moves twice as quickly as the fall and winter courses. You must keep up! Many of the course lecture notes will be available on the CHM139H course website..

TUTORIALS

You will be assigned to a tutorial group by the Chemistry Department. Tutorials convene twice a week, beginning on Thursday, July 7, 2005. By this date, a tutorial session schedule will be posted on the bulletin board outside LM 117 to inform you of your assigned tutorial group number and your tutorial classroom location. The goals of the tutorials are:

Your best three of four quizzes will count for 1% each towards your final grade.

LABORATORIES

Every CHM 139H student has also enrolled in a laboratory section through ROSI. Weekly laboratory classes will begin on Tuesday, July 5, 2005.

On the day of your first scheduled laboratory class, consult the class list, which will be posted outside of LM 117. The lab room, equipment locker, bench space or work-station and the lab demonstrator group to which you have been assigned will be printed next to your name. Please make a note of this information.

Each student will require a CHM 139H Laboratory Manual to complete the laboratory component of the course. It is available from the Chemistry Club office, located in LM 203; a schedule of their sales hours is posted in Lash Miller Labs as well as on the CHM 139H course website. You will also require a lab coat, indirectly-vented safety goggles and a lab notebook for your first laboratory class. If you do not already have them, these materials may also be purchased from the Chemistry Club office.

In advance of your first scheduled laboratory class, consult page G -15 to G -17 of the Laboratory Manual for information on how to prepare for your first lab class. Note that the Laboratory Schedule of experimental work and assignment due dates is located inside the front cover of the manual.

Because laboratory work is an important part of all sciences, you are required to pass the laboratory component of the course in order to pass CHM 139H. The experiments were chosen to reflect many of the topics that are covered in the course so that you can see how the things we discuss in lectures are related to things actually observed. All experiments are designed to allow you to complete data collection in one three-hour laboratory class. Pre-lab preparation is required and lab reports are submitted after the experiment has been completed. To enjoy the lab, good preparation and time management are essential. We hope that you will find the CHM 139H Laboratory an enjoyable learning experience. If you have any questions concerning the lab (lab organization, procedures, experiments, lab section changes, etc.), please contact your laboratory instructor, Ms. Morgan.

GENERAL ASSISTANCE

The course lecturer has set aside specific times when they are available to discuss the course material with you. These "office hours" will be posted on the course website. During the term, as term tests and the final exam approach, extra-help sessions will be available. These are times set aside to answer your questions. Your tutorial teaching assistants, the laboratory instructor and laboratory demonstrators will also help as much as they can. They do have other things to do, however, and cannot be available at all times. Try to be reasonable, make appointments (and keep them) and you will find that extra help is there.

ABSENCE

If you miss a test or a significant period of course work through illness or a related reason, you should request consideration by submitting a completed University of Toronto Student Medical Certificate. Copies are available from the Chemistry Undergraduate Office, LM 151 as well as the Faculty of Arts and Science web site http://www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca/current/forms.shtml.
The document must be presented within one week of the date of absence. Only serious illness (or equivalent reasons) will be accepted as justification for absence (note: the U of T Medical Certificate, filled out by your doctor, stating that you saw him/her on a given day is not adequate. Your doctor must certify that you were too sick to attend the test, etc.). The procedure we will follow for the particular piece of term work that you have missed will be explained to you after the certificate is received; however, no make-up tests can be offered. For more information regarding missed term work, consult the 2004-5 Arts and Science Calendar.

If you miss a lab, please follow the procedure outlined in the CHM 139H Laboratory Manual.