Chemistry 1400, Chemistry in Society
Patrick. Desrochers Fall 2008
Lecture (Laney 101): TTh Lab (Laney 206): M
Required lecture text: Chemistry in Context (5th ed.) by Eubanks, Middlecamp, Pienta, Heltzel, & Weaver Pub: McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-282835-8
Require lab
manual: Chemistry in Context Lab Manual
(5th ed.) by the American
Chemical Society Pub: McGraw-Hill ISBN
0-07-282836-6
Office hours (Laney 303A drop-in times): Mon 3 – 4 pm, Tue & Thu
11 – 12 pm, Wed 12 – 1 pm, Fri 11 – 12 pm. For other times, contact me to check
availability.
This course partially fulfills the general education requirement for
physical sciences. General philosophies and goals of general education
courses are described at the UCA General Education
Program website.
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These exams are best used at practice exams. After studying for the exam, allow 50 min (2 h for the Final) and work the exam using only a pencil/pen, calculator, and a periodic table. You may check your answers with me after you have completed the practice exam. This service only works if you plan ahead, several days prior to your actual exam.
"... this excellent canopy, the air. Look you,
this excellent overhanging firmament, this magical roof fretted with golden
fire, why
it appears no other thing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of
vapors..."
--from Hamlet, W. Shakespeare
"If the elaboration of carbon were not a common daily occurrence, on
the scale of billions of tons a week, wherever the green leaf appears, it would
by full right deserve to be called a miracle. ...[carbon
as carbon dioxide]...was borne by the wind along a row of vines...It had the
good fortune to brush against a leaf, penetrate it, and be nailed there by a
ray of the sun."
--from The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
(trans. by R. Rosenthal)
"Respiration
is combustion, slow it is true, but otherwise perfectly similar to that of
charcoal."
--Antoine LaVoisier
(1743-94)
Moore, Stanitski, Wood
and Kotz The Chemical World, Saunders 1998, p
132