Chemistry 101 Fall 2017
Mrs. Freschl
This course is intended for ONLY nursing majors and health science majors. If you are majoring in biology, psychology or planning on taking more chemistry courses (except for Chemistry 103), you are in the WRONG course.
Prerequisites: A Grade of C or better in Chemistry 100 or a placement of 1 on the Chem placement test and a score of 30 on the math placement test (or a C or better in Math 105). There will be NO exceptions to the grade of C or better in Chem 100.
My own prerequisite: A good attitude would be very helpful for learning chemistry this semester, for making this course fun (learning can be fun) and for ending up with a good grade.
Required materials:
1) Textbook: "General, Organic and Biochemistry” 9th edition, Denniston, Topping and Caret
Paperback version (approx cost $160) [You may use the 8th edition]
2) Lab manual: "Catalyst: Prentice Hall Custom Laboratory Program” (approx $40) MUST BE NEW
3) Calculator (not programmable) ($5)
4) Lab safety goggles ($10)
Lecture attendance: Attendance in lecture is strongly recommended. You will find you will learn a lot in lecture, providing you attend, pay attention and stay awake!!
It is definitely to your benefit to come to lecture.
Effort: This course is time consuming. Plan to put at least 5 hours/week into the course (not counting class time) for rewriting your lecture notes, reading the textbook, studying etc. See attached hand-out called “How to Succeed in Chemistry 101”.
Grading: Lab grade = 15%, Lecture Quizzes = 10%,
Hourly exams 5%, 15% and 20%, (5% is lowest grade. It can be any exam) Final exam = 35%
Or Hourly exams 15% each, Final exam = 30%
(The computer will decide which option works best for you)
[However, you cannot pass this course with a "C" without doing at least "C" work on the hourly exams and/or the final, no matter how great you do in lab and the quizzes!!]
Quizzes: There will be a quiz every week, except the week of hourly exams. There are NO make-up quizzes. Two quizzes will be dropped from the average. Do not use them up in the beginning of the semester, since you might need them for illnesses at the end. If you take all the quizzes, your two lowest scores will be dropped. It is to your advantage to attempt to take ALL the quizzes. The purpose of quizzes is to help you learn, make sure you keep up with the material and give you practice. They are NOT meant to torture you!! Answers to the quizzes will be on D2L.
Dropping the course: Students may drop before Oct 27.
Hourly Exams: Tuesday Sept 26, Oct. 24, Nov 21 and Dec 12. These are one-hour exams, but I will allow people to remain an extra 15 minutes if you so desire. If you have a job, arrange right now to have time off during those evenings.
Tuesday Dec 12 is a cumulative mini-final exam which is all scantron.
There are NO make-up exams. If you miss an exam, the fourth exam will replace the missed exam.
Cumulative FINAL EXAM: 11:00 lecture Saturday Dec 16 at 12:30 to 2:30 PM
2:00 lecture Friday Dec 22 at 7:30 to 9:30 AM
Final exam rooms will be assigned later in the semester.
My Office hours: Room Chem 145 (229-3759) E-mail address:
MWF 10:00 to 11:00 and 12:00 to 2:00
Laboratory: Attendance at ALL laboratory meetings is required. Missing several laboratory meetings will result in automatic failure in the course. An absence from lab will be excused ONLY upon presentation to me of a written request with appropriate documentation. If you know in advance, you can schedule with your TA another time that week to make up the lab. Labs cannot be made up the following week because the equipment and chemicals are not available. Your TA will discuss with you pre-labs, laboratory write-ups and lab reports.
Laboratory Safety: State Laws require that you must wear safety glasses at all times when laboratory work is in progress. You must bring them to the first day of lab. Failure to wear your safety glasses can result in your being banned from the lab, which would result in an 'F' in the course. So please, remember to wear them. Also remember, that although you might know what you are doing, your neighbor might NOT!! You will be working with some dangerous chemicals, and it only takes a small accident to cause loss of an eye.
Sandals and shorts (and mini skirts) are not allowed in the lab. TA’s will not let you in and you will receive a ZERO for the lab.
Discussion class: Attendance in discussion is required. This is when you will get back your lecture quizzes and exams, when the TA will go over the answers to the quizzes, exams, and the problem sets, when you will discuss the next lab experiment, when you can ask questions concerning lecture and textbook material, and the questions at the end of the chapter. This can be a very useful time to help you learn Chemistry. Don't waste it.
Problem Sets: Periodically throughout the course I will be handing out problem sets. These are NOT for a grade and are not required, but they are highly recommended. The answers to these problem sets will be given out in lecture or can be found on my web page.
Web Page: Last year’s hour exams will be on D2L “Desire2Learn”. The old exams will be a very useful study guide to this semester’s exams. I will also post the current quizzes with answers and the current exams with answers. To get to D2L, go to UWM home page (www.uwm.edu). Click on the dropdown box “Quicklinks”, select D2L and click on the “go” arrow. Your username is your ePanther username and the password is your ePanther password.
Fun: I hope you have a good time learning chemistry.
Chemistry 101
Fall 2017
Mrs. Freschl Laboratory schedule
Lab manual: "Catalyst: Prentice Hall Custom Laboratory Program”
Week of Experiment
Sept 5 NO LABORATORY
Sept 11 Safety & Thinking Metric (hand-out)
Sept 18 What is a Chemical Reaction? (page 7)
Sept 25 Physiologically Important Ions (page 103)
Oct 2 Composition of a Compound (page 17)
Oct 9 Halogens (page 25)
Oct 16 Analysis of commercial bleaches (page 33)
Oct 23 Metals (page 93)
Oct 30 The Calorie (page 47) Ignore question 3 page 52
Nov 6 How fast are chemical reactions? (page 39)
Nov 13 Chemical reactions that can go both ways (page 55)
Nov 20 NO LABORATORY
Nov 27 Concentration of an unknown acid (page 65)
Dec 4 pH scale and indicators (page 75)
Chemistry 101
Fall 2017
Mrs. Freschl Lecture schedule
Textbook: "General, Organic and Biochemistry” 9th edition, Denniston, Topping and Caret
This schedule is very tentative, not definite and will be subject to change as the semester progresses.
Sept 4 LABOR DAY
Sept 6 Chap 1 Methods & Measurements
Sept 8 Chap 1
Sept 11 Chap 2 Structure of the atom [Ignore sec 2.7 trends on periodic table]
Sept 13 Chap 2
Sept 15 Chap 2 & Quiz
Sept 18 Chap 9 Radioactivity [Ignore units of radiation: bottom p 320 to 321]
Sept 20 Chap 9
Sept 22 Chap 9 & Quiz
Sept 25 Chap 3 Ionic and Covalent compounds
[Ignore p 108 to 112: resonance & exceptions to octet]
[Tuesday Sept 26 at 5:30 First Exam]
Sept 27 Chap 3
Sept 29 Chap 3
Oct 2 Chap 4 Calculations and chemical equations
Oct 4 Chap 4
Oct 6 Chap 4 & Quiz
Oct 9 Chap 4
Oct 11 Chap 4 Oxidation
Oct 13 Chap 5 & Quiz Gases
Oct 16 Chap 5
Oct 18 Chap 5
Oct 20 Chap 5 & Quiz
Oct 23 Chap 5 Liquids
[Tuesday Oct 24 at 5:30 Second Exam]
Oct 25 Chap 5 Solids
Oct 27 Chap 5 Calorie problems
Oct 30 Chap 6 Solutions
[Ignore p 207 to 210, fr pt depression problems, molality]
[Ignore p 212 to top 213 osmotic pressure calculations]
Nov 1 Chap 6
Nov 3 Chap 6 & Quiz
Nov 6 Chap 7 Energy, rate & equilibrium [Ignore p 231-233 entropy]
Nov 8 Chap 7
Nov 10 Chap 7 & Quiz
Nov 13 Chap 8 Acids and Bases
Nov 15 Chap 8
Nov 17 Chap 8 & Quiz
Nov 20 Chap 8
[Tuesday Nov 21 at 5:30 Third exam]
Nov 23 NO CLASS
Nov 25 NO CLASS
Nov 27 Chap 8
Nov 29 Chap 10 Intro to Organic, & Saturated hydrocarbons
Dec 1 Chap 10 & quiz [Ignore table 10.8 (p342), sec 10.4 (p349-350) conformations]
Dec 4 Chap 10
Dec 6 Chap 10
Dec 8 Chap 11 & Quiz Unsaturated hydrocarbons
[Ignore bottom p 384, p393-394 benzene reactions]
Dec 11 Chap 11
[Tuesday Dec 12 at 5:30 Fourth Exam]
Dec 13 Chap 11
Cumulative Final Exam 11:00 lecture Tuesday Dec 20 at 10:00 AM
2:00 lecture Wed Dec 21 at 12:30 PM
Chemistry 101 Suggested homework problems Edition 9
(Answers are in the back of the textbook. Make sure you can get these problems right BEFORE you take your exams, not after!!)
These problems are a little TOO easy but they are a good start. My problem sets are more difficult. They will be handed out in lecture and they are on D2L.
Chapter 1: 51, 53, 55, 69, 71, 75, 77, 79, 81, 91a,c,g, 93, 95, 99, 101, 103, 105, 117b, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129,
Problem Set 1
Chapter 2: 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 57, 67, 69, 71, 73, 77, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 95, 99, 101, 103, 105, 107,
Chapter 9: 19, 21, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 37, 41, 43, 45, 49, 53, 63, 65, 69
Problem Set 2
Chapter 3 13, 15, 21, 29, 31, 35, 37, 39, 41, 45, 47, 49, 51, 59, 79a,c, 97, 101 Problem Sets 3 & 4
Chapter 4 21, 23, 27, 29, 31, 35, 39, 41, 45, 47, 51, 59, 65, 67, 69, 75, 77, 101, 103, 105 Problem Sets 5 & 6 and Problem Set 12
Chapter 5 35, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 53, 55, 59, 61, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 83, 85, 89, 95, Problem Set 7 & 7B
Chapter 6 47, 49, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 71, 79, 81
Problem Set 8
Chapter 7 65, 71, 75, 83, 85, 87, 91, 93, 95, 103
Problem Set 9
Chapter 8 29a,b, 31, 33, 35, 45, 47, 49, 55, 57, 59,71, 73, 75, 87, 89, 95
Problem Sets 10 & 11
Chapter 10 33, 35, 39, 41, 59, 61, 69, 71, 73, 79, 81, 87, 89,
Problem Sets Short alkane naming & Organic P.S. 2
Chapter 11 43(omit d), 45, 47, 49, 63, 65, 67, 69, 75, 91,
Organic Problem Set 3
Chemistry 101 Suggested homework problems Edition 8
(Answers are in the back of the textbook. Make sure you can get these problems right BEFORE you take your exams, not after!!)
These problems are a little TOO easy but they are a good start. My problem sets are more difficult. They will be handed out in lecture and they are on D2L.
Chapter 1: 51, 53, 55, 69, 71, 75, 77, 79, 81, 91a,c,g, 93, 95, 99, 101, 103, 105, 117b, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129,
Problem Set 1
Chapter 2: 19, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 53, 55, 67, 69, 71, 73, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 95, 101, 103, 105, 107,
Chapter 9: 19, 21, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 37, 41, 43, 45, 49, 51, 53, 63, 65, 69 Problem Set 2
Chapter 3 17, 19, 21, 23, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 63, 75, 79a,c, 93, 95, 99
Problem Sets 3 & 4
Chapter 4 15, 17, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 33, 35, 39, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 67, 85, 87, 89, Problem Sets 5 & 6 and Problem Set 12
Chapter 5 35, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 53, 55, 59, 61, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 83, 85, 89, 95, Problem Set 7 & 7B
Chapter 6 29, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 63, 73, 75,
Problem Set 8
Chapter 7 65, 77, 81, 83, 87, 91, 93, 101, 103
Problem Set 9
Chapter 8 27, 29, 31, 33, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 59a, 63a,b, 65, 67, 69, 71, 77, 79, 83, 85, 87, 91
Problem Sets 10 & 11
Chapter 10 15, 33, 35, 41, 53, 55, 57, 65, 67, 69, 75, 77, 79, 81, 83, 85, 97,
Problem Sets Short alkane naming & Organic P.S. 2
Chapter 11 43, 47, 49, 51, 53, 63, 65, 67, 69, 73, 83, 89,
Organic Problem Set 3