CHEM 1314 Fall 2002 Annoucements

Last updated on Saturday, October 12, 2002 at 10:00 pm (EDT)

The What's Important link is ready.

Be sure to get your web lab turned in BEFORE the 4:55 pm deadline on Friday. The staff will decide when 4:55 pm arrives and it may not be 4:55 pm your time!

In this week's web experiment in the explanation on Page 1 of how you arrived at your answer of which metal will raise the temperature of the water the highest do not JUST tell me that one has a higher specific heat compared to the other. I know that. Expand your explanation beyond that simple fact by explaining how the specific heat is used to get the higher temperature.

See the Laboratory link for information about this week's laboratory. Students in lab sections 19, 26, 27 and 29 (Monday, Thursday and Friday labs) must turn in the written Calorimetry Activity. I strongly recommend that ALL students do this activity since it covers material on Exam II (October 16, 2002).

Grades are posted. These grades include PS1 - 3 and ICE#2 and #3, Labs 1 - 3 (except for sec 19) and exam #1. The Total Points entry is your predicted percent (your grade) in the course assuming you continue the same performance on labs, homework and exams for the remainder of the semester.

All sections entered and the average is 52 with the high score of 97. CONGRATULATIONS to Makiko Takigawa on earning the highest score! Makiko, you will receive some 'special' awards on Friday in class. See everyone there!

On Monday a student in our class left his CHEM 1314 textbook and his lab manual (in a green three-ring binder) on top of his pack in ES317. He was out of the room for a few minutes. When he returned his textbook and lab manual were gone. If anyone picked up the textbook by mistake, or saw anything please contact Dr. Gelder.

IMPORTANT: Here are the room assignments for the hour exams. The first hour exam is scheduled for Wednesday, September 11, 2002. The exam begins at 5:30 pm and ends at 6:25 pm.

Exam Room	Lab Sections	TA
ES317	19, 24, 29	Andy Wang
ES317	23, 25, 27	Adrianna Moncada
EN108	20, 22, 26, 28	Cory Pfeifer
PS103	21	Shayne Cole

Check out the link to the web site for our textbook (BLB). The link is near the top of the left frame on our web site. Clicking on the link will take you to a page with an image of our textbook. Near the top of the page is a dropdown menu listing the Chapters in the text. Select a chapter and a page will be loaded for that chapter that contains links to resources. If you would like some practice problems try the Problem Soving Center. When the Problem Center page is load scroll down to the red button under flexible questions. Select the Homework link. This will generate a set of questions from the chapter. You will need a calculator.

I've added a link to the Brown/LeMay/Bursten Web Site run by Prentice-Hall. There are multiple choice 'quizzes' there that you can take to see how well you understand many of the concepts we have covered in Chapter 1. You should also not that at least one of the movies we viewed in class on Wednesday was from this site. That movie (the reaction of iron and sulfur) is also located on the CD that came in your textbook. There are some additional resources at the web site and on the CD that you may find useful.

So our first lecture down. As you can see I did not cover everything in class that were in the lecture notes. That is likely to continue to happen. I will still hold you responsible for the material in the lecture notes. If you have questions over content covered in the lecture notes that I did not (or you think I'd not) cover during lecture you are welcome to drop by and visit me or send an e-mail. Sometimes I will discuss the missed material in the next lecture, sometimes I'll simply tell you to review the material in the notes and the textbook and see me if you have questions.

I've set my office hours for this semester for 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm M, W and F. Also, if my door is open you are welcome to walk in and ask a question. I will also make appointments.

Here is a very nice Periodic Table that contains lots of physical properties and chemical properties for the elements.

In order to post grade information (scores on problem sets, laboratory's and exams) I need your permission. Go the SID#/Name link and enter a number, name or combination unique to you. I will post grade information using your SID# or SIDName. You do not HAVE to have an SID#/Name if you do not want to. There are some additional questions that I would like you to answer for some EXTRA CREDIT.

Be sure to bring your textbook and a calculator to laboratory this week! Yes! Labs are meeting this week.

Start memorizing..avoid the rush!

Things to memorize;

names and symbols of the first 20 elements and 20 common elements;
the formula and phase of all of the elements in the periodic table;
the common prefixes for SI units;

Our TAs for this semester (as of Monday, August 19, 2002) are;

Section 3:

Andy Wang (Sections 19, 24 and 29) awang@okstate.edu;
Cory Pfeiffer(Sections 20, 22, 26, and 28) umarmen@msn.edu;
Shayne Cole(Section 21) shaynecole@email.com;
Adrianna Morcada (Sections 23, 25 and 27) amoncad@okstate.edu:

----Previous Announcements----

Last updated on Saturday, October 12, 2002 at 10:00 pm (EDT)

Exam Room

Lab Sections

TA

ES317

19, 24, 29

Andy Wang

ES317

23, 25, 27

Adrianna Moncada

EN108

20, 22, 26, 28

Cory Pfeifer

PS103

21

Shayne Cole

Our TAs for this semester (as of Monday, August 19, 2002) are;

Section 3:

Andy Wang (Sections 19, 24 and 29) awang@okstate.edu; Cory Pfeiffer(Sections 20, 22, 26, and 28) umarmen@msn.edu; Shayne Cole(Section 21) shaynecole@email.com; Adrianna Morcada (Sections 23, 25 and 27) amoncad@okstate.edu:

Andy Wang (Sections 19, 24 and 29) awang@okstate.edu;
Cory Pfeiffer(Sections 20, 22, 26, and 28) umarmen@msn.edu;
Shayne Cole(Section 21) shaynecole@email.com;
Adrianna Morcada (Sections 23, 25 and 27) amoncad@okstate.edu: