Lectures and Discussions
The class as a whole will meet for the Lectures, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday,
Period 4 (12:30PM-1:45PM) which will be augmented by smaller Discussion sections
held on Tuesday. Your section number corresponds to a Room and Hour
for this Discussion.
Quizzes and Homework
Every week you will work a few problems from you textbook at your
leisure and these will be turned in on Tuesday to be graded as Homework.
Please indicate whether this is your original work. You will work a problem
similar to your homework in discussion and this will be graded as a Quiz.
Exams
Mid-Terms
There will be three in-class, long answer exams (mid-terms)
given on the following dates:
6/3 7/1 7/22
These exams will be held in our lecture hall (CLB 130) during
normal class time. Bring writing instruments
and a calculator to the exam, but DO NOT bring your TEXTBOOK or NOTEBOOK into the
exam. No conflicts with the exam times should occur.
The Instructor requests that possible absences be
communicated
to the Instructor at least one week prior to the exam time. Poor planning on your
part does not constitute an emergency.
No makeup Exams will be given. Regrades will be considered within 4 days of the exam,
only.
Final
July 31 1998
12:30PM-1:45PM CLB130
The Instructor requests that possible absences be
communicated
to the Instructor at least one week prior to the exam time.
The final will be cumulative, i.e.
cover material from the entire semester. Again, bring writing instruments
and a calculator, but not your text or notes. The Final will have a maximum point total of 200. Failure
to attend the final results in a grade of I for the semester.
Course Material
Everything you need to know about the subject matter in this course
is plainly described in your textbook. This textbook is much like many
other introductory level chemistry textbooks that describe the same material
in slightly different ways. If you feel the need, peruse the library for
additional textural input.
My notes and lectures reflect more closely my personal perpective on the subjects at hand, but are not 'better' than the textbook for the purposes of review. Nonetheless, every attempt will be made to provide my complete lecture notes on the Internet and at the University Copy Center (1620 W. University Avenue)
Email (Unix Grove) accounts will be provided free of charge to all enrolled students that do not have access to the Internet by other means. Permanent personal accounts on some unix system like Grove are highly recommended. Access to the WWW is available at all UF libraries, various Circa PC labs, and the Chemistry Resource Center in 109 Leigh Hall.
Laboratory
The associated but autonomous lab for this course is CHM2045L All questions
related to the lab must be addressed directly to the Lab Instructor:
Prof. Jim Horvath
(Room 132 LEI)
Grades
The grade for this course will be derived from the cumulative point value
(score) of the three (3) midterm exams and the final. The breakdown of
the point values of these items is as follows:
MidTerms .........100 x 3
Final = ..............200
Homework =....10 x 10 (Quiz Grade Included)
Total = .........600
The following letter grades are guaranteed for the corresponding acquired cumulative score:
A ...... Score > 400
B+ .... Score > 375
B ...... Score > 350
C ...... Score > 300
Course Announcements
Announcements will be available at any time on the 'Course Board' outside
CLB 130, the class email list server at <chm2041-l@lists.ufl.edu>and
on the Internet (WWW) near the URL <http://itl.chem.ufl.edu/>.
The course mailing list (Email listserv) will also contain discussion of
assignments and material authored by the most important people in this
course: you, the students.
Posting of Grades
All Grades will be posted by student Social Security number unless requested
of the instructor in writing during the first week of classes.
PJ Brucat // University of Florida