WELCOME TO CHEMISTRY 1201

WELCOME TO CHEMISTRY 2001-section Summer 2018 Section 1

Office: Chemistry Department, room 201A Choppin Hall

INSTRUCTOR- Professor : Dr. Kresimir Rupnik, Ph. D.

E-mail: rupnik@intelliom.com or chrupn@lsu.edu Phone/cell 205-1353

Lecture and Lab Rooms 201 Williams lectures and Williams 302 lab demonstrations

1:20-2:20PM: M- F. Because of the character of the lab demonstrations and reviews additional small group activities will be scheduled out of that time according to students convenience (see form in the syllabus)

Office hours: please email or phone for appointment. Flexible time is much better for students than fixed office hours. You are most welcome to stop by when I am in office or call if I am in a lab !

You can contact me any time if you have questions.

SYLLABUS-

NOTE: you must have a notebook (pages with numbers) for this class in order to better study and communicate with me and other students. It must contain insight into all your class activities and work in and out of the class. Bring it when you talk with me.

SCANNED TABLES (handouts)

MATERIAL-TEXTBOOK

NEWS: We will have dates of exams a week after classes start

Final exam is …………….., check LSU website, in our classroom .

Final (LSU schedule):

Bring the tables-handouts and calculators

YOUR INPUT e-mail if you have comments

CHAPTERS/

SCHEDULE

ASSIGNED MATERIAL

NEWS

Chapters; 0, 1, 2

Start reading this first::

Part 1 /Chapter 0-1 introduction, units, sample preparation etc.

Notes on ppm

Tools of the trade $ Excel (Chapter 2)

We will work on acid base equilibrium later, however you need to start practice and test your stoichiometry skills now. There will be a review dedicated to this material.

Exam1
tentatively June 20

PRACTICE

Chapter 3 lecture notes (uncertainty/error direct and propagated)

Chapter 4 &5 lecture notes/ supplement (how to use mathematics /statistics to simplify uncertainty and represent data with confidence)

IN CLASS ASSIGNMENT

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

RBC time measurement

TABLES YOU will NEED -handouts in the class --
Table 4-2 Student's t value

Table 3-1 Propagation of uncertainty

FYI: *Propagation of uncertainty-derivation (only for your information, lecture supplement)

Pdf Excel-example: temperature conversion

PART 4 SHORT