INTRODUCTORY CHEMISTRY

CHEM 1405


SCHEDULE: (subject to change as needed)

Thursday - June 6
    Lecture -  Test over Chemical Bonds and Chemical Accounting
Wednesday - June 5
    Lecture - Review for Chemical Bonds and Chemical Accounting
    Quiz - Solutions  (quiz 1) (quiz 2)
Tuesday - June 4
    Lecture - Practice problems
    Quiz - Gas Laws  (quiz 1) (quiz 2)
Monday - June 3
    Lecture - Solutions, percent solution, PPM, and dilutions
    Quiz -  Percent Composition
Friday - May 31
    Lecture - Solutions
    Quiz -  naming formulas and balancing (quiz 1) (quiz 2)
Thursday - May 30
    Lecture - percent composition and gas laws
    Quiz -  writing formulas (quiz 1)
Wednesday - May 29
    Lecture - balancing equations and formula mass
    Quiz - valence, oxidation numbers and ions (quiz 1) (quiz 2)
Tuesday - May 28
    Lecture - writing and naming formulas, chemical bonds
    Lab - Chemical bonding video
Monday - May 27
    Lecture - no class


Friday - May 24
   Test on Chapters 1 - 4
Thursday - May 23
    Lecture - review for test
    Quiz - uses of radioisotopes, protection against radiation
Wednesday - May 22
    Lecture - Valence electrons, ions, oxidation numbers, writing formulas
    Quiz - half-life, and radioisotopic dating (Quiz 1) (Quiz 2)
Tuesday - May 21
    Lab - radiation protection and nuclear technology video
    Quiz -   family name, metals/nonmetals/metalloids (Quiz 1) (Quiz 2)
Monday - May 20
    Lecture -  uses radioisotopes, protection, fission and fusion
    Quiz - types of radioactivity, isotopic notation (Quiz 1)
Friday - May 17
    Lecture - no class
Thursday - May 16
    Lecture - Nuclear Chemistry - natural radioactivity,  half-life and radioisotopic dating
    Quiz - temperature conversions (Quiz 1) (Quiz 2)
Wednesday - May 15
    Lecture -  Ground states, valence electrons,  family names , metals/nonmetals/metalloids and isotopes
   Quiz -  metric system and density (Quiz 1) (Quiz 2)
Tuesday - May 14
    Lecture -  Temperature conversions and The Structure of the Atom
    Lab - density
   Quiz -  elements (symbol and name)
Monday - May 13
    Lecture - Density
    Quiz -  physical states, compounds/elements, homo/hetro ( 1  2)
Friday - May 10
    Lecture - no class
Thursday - May 9
    Lecture - Metric system and English conversion system
    Quiz - physical and chemical properties/changes (1  2)
Wednesday - May 8
    Lecture - Introduction to Chemistry (up to and including metric system)
Tuesday - May 7
    Lecture - Introduction to Chemistry (up to the states of matter)   
Monday - May 6
    Lecture - review course syllabus


COURSE DESCRIPTION

CHEM 1405 Introductory Chemistry I (3-3-4) A survey course introducing chemistry. Topics may include inorganic, organic, biochemistry, food/physiological chemistry and environmental/consumer chemistry.  Designed for non-science majors. 


COURSE INFORMATION

    Instructor: Richard Wheet (Associate Professor Chemistry)
    Contact Information: richard.wheet@tstc.edu   254-867-4859
    Office Hours:  M W Th F - 10:00  and Tuesday 2:00
    Technical Studies Building - room 161
    Lecture: M  W Th F - 12:00 to 12:50
    Lab: T - 11:00 - 11:50


REQUIRED TEXT/MANUALS

Chemistry for Changing Times, Hill and Kolb, Prentice Hall, Latest Edition
Tutorial Programs (click here for menu)


COURSE OBJECTIVES


COURSE SYLLABUS

    Course Syllabus  (pdf format)


COURSE OUTLINE (Outline) 

I    Chemistry – Central Science

II    Atoms 

III    Atomic Structure 

IV    Nuclear Chemistry 

V    Chemical Bonds

VI    Mass and Volume Relationships

VII    Acid and Bases  

VIII    Oxidation and Reduction 

IX    Organic Chemistry 

X    Polymers 

XI    Chemistry of Earth

XII    Air

XIII    Water 

XIV    Fuel Energy 

XV    Biochemistry 

XVI    Food 

XVII    Household chemicals

XIX    Drugs 

XX   Poisons