CHEM 1014 Fall 1999

I'll have the grades up Monday. I've run into a few snags with my time today. Grades by Tuesday!?

On Thursday just before our exam a 1014 student found a wallet in PS141 and gave it to me. The student who lost it came by my office later that afternoon, he looked extremely stressed and wanted to get into PS141. I asked him if he lost anything and he said yes! I asked for his name and when it matched, I pointed to his wallet on my G3. He picked it up and opened it to see what remained of the contents. From his response everything was there that was suppose to be. The student was VERY!!! happy and would like to thank the student(s) who found the wallet. Below is an e-mail message I received from the student. If the student(s) who found the wallet would drop by I'll give you an e-mail address.

Dr. Gelder,

I want to again thank you for holding onto my wallet for me. I believe that I was very fortunate that fell into the hands of honorable people. There are certainly worse things that could happen, but finding it made my day a little brighter. If you get the chance I'd appreciate it if you let me know who it was that found the wallet so that I could thank them personally. Thanks again.

We have all but half of one section graded and the average score is 70. Not bad! If there was a terrible page on the exam it was the last page of problems. The average percentage on page 1 was 80%, on page 2 was 75% and on page 3 was 39%. I expected the last problem to be tough, we had just talk about that material and I knew it would be hard (that is why it was only 9 points!). But the average performance on Problem 6 was a big surprise! I thought that problem was going to be easy! I recommend everyone look that question over before going to laboratory this week. The discussion will follow the same format as after our first exam. John or Randi will go over the exam in detail. After discussing the exam you will get an InClass Problem Set which will cover some of the questions on the exam that students had trouble with (hint, hint). You will work on the InClass PS ON YOUR OWN! Go to the Exam link if you would like a copy of the exam.

Grades will be up Sunday (10 pm 'ish') when all of the exams have been graded.

Here is information on the 1999 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry.

It has been suggested that to view the QuickTime movies, if your browser will not play them, to right click on the quickTime icon and download the movie and play it locally on your computer. Try that and see if it works.

Bring calculators to class AND laboratory this week!!
Here is the link to get the QuickTime (for Mac or PC) plugin.

Here are the movies I shot in class. If you sit on the right (dr. g's), in the center or on the left maybe you are in the video!

You will receive your Secret Idenification Code Number (SIC#) in laboratory beginning Monday, September 20, 1999. I will begin posting the grades which I have from the TA's next week on our web site. Be sure to check the magnitude of all your scores to be sure the values I have agree with the values you have. If there are ANY differences see your TA with the graded assignment that was recorded incorrectly.

Need some Help with your chemistry? The Chemistry Department offers free tutoring in PS023 (basement of Physical Sciences). Check the Free Tutoring link on the left for the hours. Note that those TA's teaching CHEM 1014 are identified with the blue color. Don't forget my office hours are 2:30 - 3:20 pm on T and R.

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CHEM 1014 Fall 1999

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I'll have the grades up Monday. I've run into a few snags with my time today. Grades by Tuesday!?

Dr. Gelder,

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