CHEMISTRY 100
CHEMISTRY in EVERYDAY LIFE
Spring 2006
General Information

Catalog Description: A chemistry appreciation course for non-science majors. Covers basic chemistry conceptswith technical/mathematical aspects minimized. Emphasizes the practical chemical world of human beings and the chemical nature of everyday products. Includes laboratory. Absence at first laboratory may result in loss of space to a person on the waiting list.(See objectives)

Instructor: Dr Joseph C Tausta
Office: 234 Physical Science Building
Lecture: Science 121
Laboratories: HUEC228
Office Hours: 10-11A, M; 8:30-9:30A, Tu&Th; 8:30-10:30A,W
Review Session: As needed- normally Fridays at 12 Noon in Sci 121
Phone: 607 436 3193/Chem. Office
607 436 3178/JCT office
eMail: taustajc@oneonta.edu
Announcements
Chapter 1 Slides-basic ideas
Ch2 slides-laws of chemistry
Ch3 slides-atomic structure
Ch4 slides- the atomic nucleus
Ch12 slides-air quality
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Acid/base
formulas
reaction rates
second review exam
water quality
oxidation/reduction
fitness
food/agriculture
dna
drugs
steroids
review exam for final pt 1
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answers to exam 1 fall 1999
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answers to yellow exam 1 F'00
Answers to Exam 1 Spring '01
Communication with Dr Ellen Grant
TEXTS & LABORATORY MANUAL

Optional: Textbook: Hill and Kolb, Chemistry for Changing Times, 9th Edition, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, N.J., 07458

Required: Laboratory Manual: Tausta & Johnson, Chemistry in Everyday Life , Laboratory Experiments , 9th or later Edition, Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, Needham Heights, Ma, 02194

Required Lecture Notes: Lecture Notes and Slides for Chemistry 100-
Available at College Bookstore only

Optional: Study guide for the textbook.

• Attendance at all laboratory sessions is required. Chronic lateness may be considered to be absence. Makeup MAY be allowed for sickness, family sickness, and official college sporting events if a team member WHEN PROPERLY DOCUMENTED.. STUDENTS MUST HAVE A PASSING GRADE IN LAB. TO PASS CHEM.100.
  
  
• Four points will be deducted from the OVERALL LAB. average for each lab. absence.
  
  
• Makeup of excused absences only will be at the discretion of individual instructors and depend on the availability of chemicals and equipment. It is up to the discretion of the lab instructor what lab absences can be deemed excused.
  
  
• Makeup of labs after the week that the lab. is done is usually impossible because equipment and chemicals are stored.
  
  
• Chronic absence and/or lateness will be a cause for failure in the course. "Cooking of data, use of data not derived in the scheduled lab. and any other form of cheating may be cause for failure in chem 100, and may incur actions by the suitable college disciplinary authority.
  
  
• Plagiarism is the uncited use of material and/or data not your own. Steps will be taken in accordance with college policy for cheating in all cases of plagiarism on laboratory reports or other written work.
  
  
• Grades are based 50% on hour exams and part 1 of final and 50% for two formal reports and part 2 of the final exam (the lab grade). Participation is factored into both grades, but mainly consists of the judgment of the lab instructorFORMAL REPORTS.
  
  
• FINAL EXAM will be a multiple choice exam and part 2 will be a rough draft formal lab report written on Experiment 14, Dissolved Oxygen. For schedule of finals see laboratorypage.
  
  
• Scheduled Meeting Times--
  
  
• Class : Section 1, 12 noon, M&Wed; Section2, 12 noon, Tu&Th.