Class: MWF 8:00-8:50 Instructor: Dr. Rob Pfaff

S 301 Office Hours: MWF 11:00 – 11:50

(and by appointment)

Lab: Arranged Office: S 304A

S 304 Phone: 866-6380

Physical chemistry is a predominantly theoretical course normally taken during the junior or senior year. General chemistry and Quantitative Analysis are prerequisite, although with my permission, Quant may be taken concurrently with P-Chem II. In addition, you should have Math 125 and 126, and Physics 121 and 122. You also have access to the textbook website at http://bcs.whfreeman.com/pchem8e/default.asp?uid=0&rau=0.

LECTURE COVERAGE

There is one required text for the lecture portion of the course. It is Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula, Physical Chemistry, 8th Ed., W.H. Freeman, 2006. I am also trying to get the solutions manual.

The following material will be covered on or about the dates indicated below. If warranted, this schedule may be revised as the semester progresses.

Week	Beginning	Material in Atkins & de Paula	Suggested end-of-chapter exercises (a) and problems
1	8/18	Chapter 1	E: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 17, 19, 22 P: 1, 2, 6, 7, 11, 13, 14, 17
2	8/25	Chapter 2	E: 1, 3, 4, 6, 11, 14, 19, 21, 22, 24, 31, 33
3	9/1	No class Monday Chapter 2	P: 1, 7, 17, 19, 25, 27, 31
4	9/8	Chapter 2 Chapter 3	E: 2, 4, 6, 7, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 21
5	9/15	Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Exam 1 due Friday	P: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 25, 28, 42 E: 1, 2, 4, 6, 9
6	9/24	Chapter 4 Chapter 5	P: 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 17, 19 E: 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 13, 15, 17, 21
7	9/29	Chapter 5	P: 1, 5, 9, 15, 19, 23, 25
8	10/6	Chapter 6 No class on Friday	E: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 14, 17
9	10/13	Chapter 6 Chapter 7	P: 5, 7, 13, 19 E: 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18
10	10/20	Chapter 7 Exam 2 due Friday	P: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 17, 25, 29, 31
11	10/27	Chapter 7 Chapter 18	E: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12
12	11/3	Chapter 18	P: 1, 3, 5, 11, 15, 19
13	11/10	Chapter 20	E: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 17, 19, 21, 25, 27, 28
14	11/17	Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Exam 3 due Friday	P: 1, 3, 7, 16 E: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 20, 22, 26, 29
	11/24	Thanksgiving week
15	12/1	Chapter 21	P: 1, 5, 9, 11, 13, 19, 23, 27, 35

Cumulative Final Exam — Due Wednesday, December 10 at 8:00 a.m.

EXAMS AND GRADING

The grading in this course will be derived from three 100 point hour exams and a 200 point cumulative final exam. Your total points will be converted to a percentage of the 500 points available and letter grades will be assigned on that basis. Students are expected to take all exams at the scheduled times. If a conflict should arise which prevents taking an exam at the scheduled time, I may, at my discretion, grant a make up. Requests for make-ups MUST be made before the scheduled exam time (even a phone message may suffice). Requests made after the scheduled time will not be considered. There will be NO exceptions. You are responsible for topics covered in the text, even if they are not covered in class. You are also responsible for topics covered in class, even if they are not covered in the text.

On all written work, proper grammar and sentence structure are expected and points will be lost for bad grammar and sentence structure. Obviously, this is not an English class but good communications skills are essential in chemistry. You will also be required to use the American spellings of chemicals.

In addition, it is my policy NOT to approve dropping the course after the College’s official drop date.

If you are a student with a disability, kindly meet with me immediately to discuss the accommodations you will need during class activities, examinations, and out of class assignments in order to participate fully and demonstrate your abilities.

The anticipated grade cut-offs are below. They may not be the final cut-offs but they will give you an idea of your status. In the past, cut-offs have always stayed the same or have been dropped slightly. Therefore, these cut-offs can be regarded as giving your minimum grade.

A	93%
A-	90%
B+	87%
B	83%
B-	80%
C+	77%
C	68%
C-	65%
D+	61%
D	50%

Please note that beginning in 2006, we are now receiving American Chemical Society Journals online, not in paper. (Chemical and Engineering News and the Journal of Chemical Education are the only two paper subscriptions still current.) What this means is that from any campus computer, including residence hall rooms, you can search the ACS literature going back at least 15 years. The journal collection can be accessed from any campus computer by going through the library website or by directly going to:

http://pubs.acs.org/wls/journals/query/subscriberSearch.html

LABORATORY COVERAGE

Last year, I revamped the laboratory portion of the physical chemistry course. I am giving you a copy of the new lab manual. However, two mainstream physical chemistry lab books will be kept on the shelves by the door in the lab for your review. They are Garland, Nibler, and Shoemaker, Experiments in Physical Chemistry, 7^th Ed., McGraw-Hill, 2003 and R. J. Sime, Physical Chemistry: Methods, Techniques, and Experiments, Saunders, 1990.

Part of your job will be to proofread the new lab manual and to make suggestions on parts that you think need to be revised.

The physical chemistry laboratory is unlike any other you have ever participated in. Here, we often must assemble apparatus from generic parts. This is due to the specialized nature of the equipment. Of course, we will also make use of familiar things, beakers, flasks, pipets, and the like, but you will need to approach many of the experiments with a certain amount of creativity.

Physical chemistry is also unique in that we often make you figure out what needs to be done. The instructions are not as detailed as you saw in general chemistry and organic. For example, you may be told to make 100 mL of 0.10 M HCl solution; you need to recall how to do it from your previous experiences. You are required to keep a duplicate notebook, turning in the white pages when you leave lab. All your data are to be recorded in this notebook; scratch paper will be confiscated. Lastly, before you start laboratory work on an experiment, you must look up all of the substances used in the Material Safety Data Sheet books in the Chem Reading Room. Place into your notebook relevant information about each substance, such as CAS Registry Number, procedures to follow if the substance is spilled, disposal procedures, first aid procedures, etc.

You are to do the following activities during the time period listed for each. Failure to perform the experiment on time will result in a score of zero on that experiment.

Expt #	Starting Page	Dates	Experiment Title
1	9	8/25 - 9/5	Thermistors
2	15	9/8 - 9/19	Heat-Capacity Ratios for Gases
3	23	9/22 - 10/3	Heats of Combustion
4	35	10/6 - 10/17	Heats of Ionic Reaction
5	43	10/20 - 10/31	Binary Solid-Liquid Phase Diagram
6	49	11/3 - 11/14	Partial Molar Volume
7	55, 61	11/17 - 12/5	Molecular Modeling I – Boat/Chair Conformational Energies

All lab reports MUST be done on a word processor or computer. You may use any machine you wish. The College maintains many microcomputers with word processing, spreadsheets, illustration software, etc., in several campus locations or you can use any other machine you have access to. Further, lab reports are to be written in the form of a manuscript for submission to an American Chemical Society journal; look at a recent issue of the Journal of the American Society in the reading room to see the style. The ACS Style Guide in the Chem Reading Room can help you in your writing.

Lab reports are to be submitted to Turnitin.com. We will talk about what that can do for you and how to use it. The Class ID is xxxxxx and the Class join password is xxxxx.

All lab reports are due within two weeks of beginning the experiment. Failure to turn the lab report in on time will result in a score of zero on that experiment.

Each experiment will be graded on a 50 point basis; 30 points for the experiment, per se, and 20 points for the write-up. At the end of the semester, you are also to turn in your lab notebook, which will be graded on a 50 point basis. Your total points will be converted to a percentage of the 400 available points. The grade cut-offs have not yet been established.