INTRODUCTORY CHEMISTRY

CHEM 1405


SCHEDULE: (subject to change as needed)

Tuesday - February 14
    Lecture -  Test over Chemical Bonds and Chemical Accounting
    Lab - Practice problems
Monday - February 13
    Lecture - Review for Chemical Bonds and Chemical Accounting
    Quiz - Acid - Base (up to and including reaction of acids and bases)  
Friday - February 10
    Lecture - Acid-Bases and Plating
    Quiz - Solutions
Thursday - February 9
    Lecture - Acids and Bases
    Quiz - Gas Laws
Wednesday - February 8
    Lecture - Solutions, percent solution, PPM, and dilutions
    Quiz -  Percent Composition
Tuesday - February 7
    Lecture - Solutions
    Lab - Chemical bonding video
    Quiz -  naming formulas and balancing
Monday - February 6
    Lecture - percent composition and gas laws
    Quiz -  writing formulas (quiz 1) (quiz 2))
Friday - February 3
    Lecture - balancing equations and formula mass
    Quiz - valence, oxidation numbers and ions (quiz 1) (quiz 2)
 Thursday - February 2
     Lecture - writing and naming formulas, chemical bonds


Wednesday - February 1
    Test on Chapters 1 - 4
Tuesday - January 31
    Lecture - review for test
    Lab - nuclear technology video
    Quiz - uses of radioisotopes, protection against radiation
Monday - January 30
    Lab - radiation protection
    Quiz - half-life, and radioisotopic dating (Quiz 1) (Quiz 2)
Friday - January 27
    Lecture - valence electrons, ions, oxidation numbers, writing formulas
    Quiz -  family name, metals/nonmetals/metalloids (Quiz 1) (Quiz 2)
Thursday - January 26
    Lecture - fission and fusion
    Quiz - types of radioactivity, isotopic notation
Wednesday - January 25
    Lecture - uses radioisotopes and protection
    Quiz - temperature conversions
Tuesday - January 24
    Lecture - - metals/nonmetals/metalloids and isotopes, Nuclear Chemistry - natural radioactivity, half-life and radioisotopic dating
    Lab - density
    Quiz - metric system and density (1  2)
Monday -  January 23
    Lecture - The Structure of the Atom, ground states, valence electrons, and  family names
   Quiz -  elements (symbol and name)
Friday - January 20
    Lecture -  Density and Temperature conversions
Thursday - January 19
    Lecture - Metric system and English conversion system
    Quiz -  physical states, compounds/elements, homo/hetro  (1  2)
Wednesday - January 18
    Lecture - Metric system
    Quiz - physical and chemical properties/changes (1  2)
Tuesday - January 17
    Lecture - Introduction to Chemistry (up to and including metric system)
Friday - January 13
    no class
Thursday - January 12
    no class
Wednesday - January 11
    no class
Tuesday - January 10
    Lecture - Introduction to Chemistry (up to the states of matter)   
Monday - January 9
    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 - 11:00 - 12:00 and Tuesday 2:00 - 3:00
    Technical Studies Building - room 161
    Lecture: M  W Th F - 12:00 to 12:50
    Lab: T - 12:00 - 1:50


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