Chemistry 101 - Spring 2004 Fundamentals in Chemistry I Sections 501-510

Course Information

• Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:35 - 10:50 am
• Place: Room 100 Heldenfels (map and building photograph).
• UPDATED Syllabus and Bonus Opportunity Problems. These files are saved in Adobe Acrobat, 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.
• One-on-One Tutor List (pdf file).
• Link to Calibrated Peer Review (CPR). For help, here is the Student Handout (pdf file).
• Notes on Standard Deviation (.pdf)
• Laboratory Information
• Supplemental Instruction Sessions (updated regularly). Our SI leader is Prashant Reddy. The times are:
  • Tuesday in Blocker 138: 7-8pm
  • Thursday in Blocker 138: 7-8pm
  • Sunday in Blocker 123: 7-8pm
  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
• Academic Integrity: What every Aggie needs to know.

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• 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.
• Vita (Professional biography)
• Office Hours: Mondays 11:30 am - 7pm, Wednesdays 11:10 am - 2:30pm, by appointment and whenever you can find 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.
• 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. Does that fit me?