CHM2045 Course Operation

Lectures and Discussions
The class as a whole will meet for the Lectures, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, Periods 7 (1:55PM-2:45PM), or 8 (3:00PM-3:50PM), which will be augmented by smaller Discussion sections held on Tuesdays. Your section number corresponds to a Room and Hour for this Discussion.

• Section 0678 period 2 Room LEI 104 (Page)
• Section 0679 period 3 Room LEI 104 (Page)
• Section 0680 period 4 Room LEI 242 (Page)
• Section 0681 period 6 Room LEI 242 (Oglesby)
• Section 0682 period 7 Room LEI 242 (Oglesby)
• Section 0683 period 2 Room LEI 242 (Oglesby)
• Section 0684 period 4 Room LEI 142 (McKenzie)
• Section 0685 period 4 Room LEI 148 (Boone)
• Section 0686 period 5 Room LEI 242 (Boone)
• Section 0687 period 6 Room LEI 148 (McKenzie)
• Section 4914 period 7 Room LEI 104 (Page)
• Section 4930 period 7 Room LEI 148 (Boone)
• Section 5837 period 8 Room TUR 2328 (Boone)
• Section 6338 period 8 Room LEI 104 (McKenzie)
• Section 6383 period 5 Room LEI 104 (Oglesby)

Quizzes and Homework
Every week you will work a few problems from you textbook at your leisure and these will be turned in on Tuesday to be graded as Homework. Please indicate in writing that each submitted assigment is your own original work. You will be challenged by a problem similar to your homework at the end of the discussion section. This problem will be graded as a Quiz and a combined quiz and homework score for that week will be added to your cumulative score (see Grading, below).

Exams
Mid-Terms
There will be THREE midterm exams given on the following Tuesday nights, periods E2-E3, 8:20 - 10:10 PM:

The exam location will be announced. Bring writing instruments and a calculator to the exam, but DO NOT bring your TEXTBOOK or NOTEBOOK into the exam. No conflicts with the exam times should occur, but if they do, we will abide by University Policy for their resolution. Any possible absences must be communicated to the Instructor at least one week prior to the exam time. Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency. No makeup Exams will be given. Instead, the lowest of the three midterm exam grades will be omutted from the grade computation. There will be no regrades.
Final Exam MONDAY APRIL 26 12:30 - 2:30 PM
Any possible absences must be communicated to the Instructor before March 1, 1999. The final will be cumulative, i.e. cover material from the entire semester. The location of the exam will be announced. Please bring writing instruments and a calculator to the exam location, but not your text or notes. The Final will have a maximum point total of 200. Failure to attend the final results in a grade of E for the semester.

Course Material
Everything you need to know about the subject matter in this course is plainly described in your textbook (in fact, ours' is an excellent texbook). This textbook is much like many other introductory level chemistry textbooks that describe the same material in slightly different ways. If you feel the need, peruse the library for additional textural input.

My notes and lectures reflect more closely my personal perspective on the subjects at hand, but are not 'better' than the textbook for the purposes of review. Nonetheless, every attempt will be made to provide my complete lecture notes on the Internet and, if the class requests, at the University Copy Center (1620 W. University Avenue)

Email (Unix Gatorlink) accounts are required for each student enrolled in this class. Moreover, subscription to the email list for the course to obtain announcements is highly recommended. Access to the WWW and Email is available at all UF libraries, various Circa PC labs, and the Chemistry Resource Center in 109 Leigh Hall.

Laboratory
The associated but autonomous lab for this course is CHM2045L All questions related to the lab must be addressed directly to the Lab Instructor: Prof. Jim Horvath (Room 132 LEI)

Grades
The grade for this course will be derived from the cumulative point value (score) of two (2) of the three (3) midterm exams, the homework and quizzes, and the final exam. The breakdown of the point values of these items is as follows:

MidTerms = 100 x 2 = 200
Final =              200
Homework = 10 x 10 = 100  (Quiz and Homework Grades Combined)
Total =              500

The following letter grades are guaranteed for the corresponding acquired cumulative score:

          A ...... Score > 400
          B+ ..... Score > 375
          B ...... Score > 350
          C ...... Score > 300
          D ...... Score > 250

Course Announcements
Announcements will be available at any time on the 'Course Board' outside CLB 130, the class email list server at <chm2045-l@lists.ufl.edu>and on the Internet (WWW) near the URL < http://itl.chem.ufl.edu/>. The course mailing list (Email listserv) will also contain discussion of assignments and material authored by the most important people in this course: you, the students.

Posting of Grades
Your exams and quizzes will be returned personally to you with your grade on them. Posting a publically viewable list of grades is complicated by University of Florida Policy and thus will not be performed.