Chemistry 101 - Spring 2005 Fundamentals in Chemistry I Sections 501-511

Course Information

• Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:35 - 10:50 am
• Place: Room 100 Heldenfels (map and building photograph).
• Syllabus, Bonus Opportunity Problems, and the front and back of our Periodic Table envelope. These files are saved in Adobe Acrobat as a pdf file, therefore you will need an Adobe Acrobat Viewer to see them. To download Adobe Acrobat viewer for all platforms, click here.
• Class Notes and Old Exams. As extra - here are my Chem 102 notes.
• Chemistry Department One-on-One Tutor List (pdf file).
• FREE ONE-ON-ONE TUTORING by the Center for Academic Enhancement in Blocker 525. This is a new program and at present, they only have 1 tutor on Tuesday (9am-2pm) and Thursday (9am-4pm). You can call for appointment at 845-2724 or just walk-in. Sessions are about 45 minutes.
  
• FREE ONE-ON-ONE TUTORING for Chem 101, 102, 107 and other courses by the Center for Multicultural Services in the MSC. Visit http://aggieculture.tamu.edu/tutor/. If you go to the website, you can sign up for an appointment or you can ask to be a tutor yourself. For more info, call 979-845-4551 or visit the website.
  
• Link to Calibrated Peer Review (CPR). For help, here is our Student Handout (pdf file).
• Link to the TAMU Writing Center, Important Handouts and How to Write an Abstract.
• Link to Turnitin.com.
• Notes on Standard Deviation (.pdf)
• Laboratory Information (including the Form for the Makeup Lab and Lab Schedules)
• Supplemental Instruction Sessions (updated regularly). Our SI leader is Judith Kwarteng Amaning. Our SI sessions are scheduled for:
  
  • Sunday 7-7:50pm BLOC 163
  • Monday 7-7:50pm BLOC 163
  • Tuesday 7-7:50pm BLOC 163
    A variety of other learning assistance programs designed to help students succeed at TAMU can be found at the TAMU Center for Academic Enhancement.
• Grade Check: If you want to check your grades, click HERE for the WEBCT VISTA login site. Enter your neo id and password. You will need a recent browser (e.g. Internet Explorer for PC - Version 5.5 or better) to meet the security restrictions.
• Sample Exam Questions
• How to Succeed in Chemistry 101 and 102
• Office of the Aggie Honor System What every Aggie needs to know.

• Office: Room 116C Heldenfels (in the back of the help desk area)
• Phone: (979) 845-3256
• E-mail: kennicutt@mail.chem.tamu.edu for all correspondence EXCEPT sending CSB files. Send all CSB files to k-keeney@neo.tamu.edu. Don't forget to include NEO.
• Vita (Professional biography)
• Office Hours: Mondays 3:30-9pm, Wednesdays 3:30-6pm, by appointment and whenever you can catch me.
• Review Sessions: Sundays, General Review/Problem Solving: usually 2 - ?pm, Rm 100 HELD
• Lecture Notes: Copies of my notes will only be found on the web.

• Math Review: Useful for reviewing the basics!
• Graphing Using Excel: A tutorial very useful for lab!
• Student Resources for our Textbook: You'll find interactive excercises & flashcards for each chapter plus other fun stuff! In the previous edition, there is an on-line quiz - for the link, click HERE.
• Preparation for Topics in Chemistry Useful for chemistry basics!
• Toward Success in College! A well-written funny on-line book - You'll enjoy this!
  
• Molecular Models: A 3-D look at molecules from Chapters 7 and 8 - developed for CHEM 107 by Michael Cain at TAMU. You will need to download some software - just follow the directions on the page.
• The Collective: A terrific collection of molecular visualization links. Use these to enhance your understanding of chemical processes and reactions.
• The Chemicool Periodic Table: Everything you wanted to know about the elements!
• The Periodic Table of Comic Books! Now, that's fun!
• The Periodic Table of Poetry! Does this count as a humanity course?
• Virtual Chemistry Club (American Chemical Society): This site includes puzzles, mysteries and Ask-A-Chemist).
• Scientific American Online and Science Online: two terrific science magazines on the web.
• Science is Fun! The homepage of Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, a man who shares his love of Chemistry with others - lots of great demonstration ideas!
• The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project For giggles! The scientific investigation of the common Twinkie. T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. stands for "Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations."
• Reference Site: Martindale's "The Reference Desk: Science Tables & Databases." This site is a part of a more complete website for science education links, supported by UC Irvine.
• A FUN On-Line Course: A set of over 1200 lecture slides and 33 animations for a two-semester 8-credit hour General Chemistry course! Good for background. It even includes on-line quizzes. The presentations have been organized to follow the text Chemistry for Today, 2nd Edition by Seager and Slabaugh which is published by West Educational Publishing. Check it out!
• The ChemTeam: a great tutorial of high school chemistry - in progress! This site has practice problems and answers.
• More on the Theory of Atoms in Molecules.
• Bad Science - What is it?
• For a SCIENCE break, visit one of the many Science Museums located around the world!
• Personality Test: A fun, quick Myers-Briggs-like test (akin to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter) to categorize your temperament. Short explanations of the 4 resulting types are on the page. How each of you learn as students can be better understood from this model.

  This is your Quiz 1. Please take the quiz on line, noting your 4 letters (e.g. INTJ). In an e-mail send me (1) your 4 letters and (2) a short paragraph on what you thought of the quiz. Here is another web site to learn more about what the letters mean: www.keirsey.com/ I am an INTJ or and ENTJ, depending on the day. Does that fit me?