Doherty High School – AP Chemistry

(University of Colorado at Denver)

Course Syllabus

Fall 2009

(Part I)              AP Chemistry offers dual enrollment with CU-Denver

Course:              UCD - Chemistry 2031 (General Chemistry I)

      UCD - Chemistry 2038 (General Chemistry Laboratory I)

 

Start/End Dates:  Aug 18 – Dec 18, 2009

 

Days/Times:  M-F; 9:42 – 10:39 (and using 4^th hour for labs as needed)

 

Location:     Doherty High School, Room 262

 

Instructor:    Julie E Furstenau

 

Office Hours:  7:45 – 8:38,  M - F

 

Phone:              328-6500

 

Email Address:  furstje@d11.org

 

 

(Part II)

 

Required Textbooks/Readings:

              Brown, LeMay, and Bursten; Chemistry, The Central Science; 8^th Revised Edition; Prentice Hall

Vonderbrink; Laboratory Experiments for Advanced Placement Chemistry; 2^nd Edition; Flinn Scientific

 

(Part III)

 

Course Description:  CHEM 2031: General Chemistry I. Topics include chemical structure, atomic and molecular properties, molecular geometry and bonding, and gas laws. This course prepares students to take upper division chemistry courses. Prerequisite: successful completion of one year of high school chemistry and algebra.    Corequisite: CHEM 2038

                                          CHEM 2038: General Chemistry Laboratory I. Laboratory to accompany CHEM 2031. Students perform laboratory experiments on topics covered in CHEM 2031 and gain experience in observing, recording, and interpreting physical and chemical phenomena. Corequisite: CHEM 2031.

 

Course Objectives:  The successful student in Chem 2031/2038 will be able to perform calculations for the topics indicated in the course description, and will also be able to explain in clear, concise English the fundamental theories behind these topics.

 

(Part IV)

 

Evaluation/Grading Procedures

 

Your grade will be determined by homework, quizzes, exams and a final exam (Chem. 2031).  For Chem. 2038, your grade will be entirely determined by lab reports.  Although attendance is not a numerical factor in the grade, obviously if you miss class frequently your understanding of the material, and consequently your grade, will suffer.

 

For the lecture part of the course, the grade will be determined as follows:

                           

                                                                      Homework           5%

                                                                      Quizzes              10%

                                                                      Exam                  50%

                                                                      Final Exam         35%

             

                                                                      Grading Scale for both courses:

                                                                      90%-100%            A

                                                                      80%-89%              B

                                                                      70%-79%              C

                                                                      60%-69%              D

                                                                      --      59%               F

 

(Part V)

 

Topics/Schedule of Activities

 

Unit I: A review of basic chemical principle, nomenclature, and stoichiometry (4 weeks)

Text chapter:              1 – Introduction: Matter and Measurement

              Required problems:  14, 20, 25, 27, 34, 37, 49, 55, 61, 74

              Lab – Exp. 1 – Determination of the Empirical Formula of Silver Oxide

                            2 – Atoms, Molecules and Ions

              Required problems: 3, 16, 17, 27, 30, 36, 38, 42, 44, 46, 48, 55, 59, 75, 76

              Lab – Exp. 2 – Analysis of Silver in an Alloy

                            21 – Nuclear Chemistry (Sec 21.1 – 21.3 only)

              Required problems: 3, 4, 6, 23, 24, 25

                            3 – Stoichiometry: Calculations with Chem. Formulas & Equations

              Required problems: 8, 12, 18, 24, 34, 40, 46, 54, 60, 70, 73, 105

              Lab – Exp. 4 – Analysis of Alum, AlK(SO₄)₂∙12H₂O

 

EXAM 1 – September 11

Unit II: Solution Chemistry, electronic structure and periodic trends (4 weeks)

Text chapter:              4 – Aqueous Reactions and Solution Stoichiometry

              Required problems: 6,12,14, 20, 24, 28, 37, 40, 42, 53, 59, 71, 78, 95

This is also the chapter where we will begin our on-going practice of reaction prediction!!

              Lab – Exp 5 – Finding the Ratio of Moles of Reactants in a Chem. Rxn.

                            6 – Electronic Structure of Atoms

Required problems: 7, 9, 13, 27, 33, 43, 56, 62, 65, 67, 93
           7 – Periodic Properties of the Elements

              Required problems: 13, 20, 23, 33, 38, 39, 41, 44, 45, 78(omit “e”)

              Lab – Exp 7 - An Activity Series

 

 

EXAM 2 – October 16

 

Unit III: Thermodynamics and some reaction prediction (4 weeks)

Text chapter:              5 – Thermochemistry

              Required problems: 15, 19, 27, 29, 39, 43, 45, 51, 53, 62, 100

              Lab – Exp. 6 – Thermodynamics – Enthalpy of Reaction and Hess’s Law

                            19 – Chemical Thermodynamics

              Required problems: 6, 9, 15, 26, 30, 34, 40, 46, 68, 82

**Independent Study:  Chapter 24 – Chemistry of Coordination Compounds (Sections 24.1 – 24.4)

              Required problems: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 15

              Lab: Exp 24 – Preparation and Analysis of Tetraamminecopper(II) Sulfate Monohydrate

             

EXAM 3 – November 9

 

Unit IV: Chemical bonding, molecular geometry, gas laws and more reaction prediction (4 weeks)

Text chapter:              8 – Basic Concepts of Chemical Bonding

              Required problems: 10, 15, 22, 28, 34, 36, 38, 40, 47, 50, 52, 60, 66, 93

                            9 – Molecular Geometry and Bonding Theories

              There will be no required problems in this chapter; instead we will do a two-day “lab” on molecular geometry that will address all of the pertinent information in this chapter.

                            10 – Gases

              Required problems: 7, 17, 20, 26, 33, 37, 39, 43, 45, 49, 59, 66, 72, 97

              Lab: Exp 8 – Determining the Molar Volume of a Gas

**Independent Study:  Chapter 22 – Chemistry of the Nonmetals

              Required problems: 7, 13, 18, 22, 24, 33, 36, 37, 44, 45, 49, 52, 56, 65, 68, 70, 94, 96

EXAM 4 – December 5

 

After this unit, since we will not have met our lab requirements, we will spend approximately 1½ weeks doing a qualitative analysis lab: Exp 19 – Separation and Qualitative Determination of Cations and Anions.  This will count for a larger percentage of your grade, since it takes a great deal more time and effort on your part than the previous labs!  During this time your only “lecture” assignment will be to study for your semester final!!

 

 

Final Exam - December 17 or 18

(Depends on DHS final exam schedule)

 

 

(Part VI)

 

Special Notes: 

• According to District 11 policy, you may withdraw from this course during the first 20 days of the semester with an “H” on your transcript; after that point, it is my option whether you drop the course with an “H” or an “F”.
• No late work (homework and lab reports) will be accepted; quizzes and exams missed due to illness must be made up the first day that you are back in school, and, of course, your absence must have been excused.
• At least 50% of the quizzes and exams consist of homework (or very similar) problems.  This should "reward" the diligent AP student.
• I'd like to share a small section of the AP Chemistry Course Description booklet:

The Advanced Placement chemistry course is designed to be the equivalent of the general chemistry course usually taken during the first college year...Students in such a course should attain a depth of understanding of fundamentals and a reasonable competence in dealing with chemical problems.  The course should contribute to the development of the students' abilities to think clearly and to express their ideas, orally and in writing, with clarity and logic...it is expected that a minimum of 290 minutes per week should be allotted for an AP Chemistry course.  Of the total allocated time, a minimum of 90 minutes per week, preferably in one session, should be spent engaged in laboratory work...It is assumed that the student will spend at least five hours a week in unsupervised individual study.

 

 

Academic Honor Code

You may work together on homework assignments and lab reports.  This does not mean, however, that I should ever read lab reports and see any identical computer printouts, answers to questions and/or conclusion statements!  Any such instances will receive a zero on that portion of the report for all parties involved.  All graded homework must have the required supporting work in order to receive any credit.  Any take-home quizzes and/or exams will be individual effort, and whatever reference materials that are stated on the particular exam/quiz for your use.  You are to submit only your own work for evaluation, to acknowledge the work and conclusions of others, and to do nothing that would provide an unfair advantage in your academic efforts.  We will discuss this further in class.