160:345 Physical Chemistry I, Fall 2005

160:345 Physical Chemistry I, Fall 2005

MTh 2:30-3:50, Smith 240

To view your grades, click on "View Grades" below. The link points to the Rutgers Gradebook program, where you will be prompted for your NETID (your pegasus username and password).

View Grades

The high grade on the final exam was 89.

If you would like to look over your exam, I will be in my office most of Dec 22 (Thursday) and Dec 23 (Friday), and I will be in most days after Jan 2 -- send email first if you are making a special trip to the campus. Or you can stop by once the new semester begins.



COURSE SCHEDULE

Date Subject and Book Chapter
Sep 01 THR Introduction and Start Ch1: Fundamental Concepts of Thermodynamics
Sep 05 MON Labor Day -- No Classes
Sep 08 THR Continue Ch1
Sep 12 MON Ch2: Heat, Work, Internal Energy, Enthalpy, and the First Law of Thermodynamics
Sep 15 THR Continue Ch2
Sep 19 MON Ch3: The Importance of State Functions: Internal Energy and Enthalpy
Sep 22 THR Continue Ch3
Sep 26 MON Ch4: Thermochemistry
Sep 29 THR Continue Ch4
Oct 03 MON Review
Oct 06 THR Exam 1, Ch1-Ch4
Oct 10 MON Ch5: Entropy and the Second and Third Laws of Thermodynamics
Oct 13 THR Continue Ch5
Oct 17 MON Ch6: Chemical Equilibrium
Oct 20 THR Continue Ch6
Oct 24 MON Ch7: The Properties of Real Gases
Oct 27 THR Continue Ch7
Oct 31 MON Ch8: Phase Diagrams and the Relative Stability of Solids, Liquids, and Gases
Nov 03 THR Continue Ch8
Nov 07 MON Ch9: Ideal and Real Solutions
Nov 10 THR Continue Ch9
Nov 14 MON Ch10: Electrolyte Solutions
Nov 17 THR Continue Ch10 / Review
Nov 21 MON Exam 2, Ch 5-10
Nov 24 THR Thanksgiving -- No Class
Nov 28 MON Ch11: Electrochemical Cells, Batteries, and Fuel Cells
Dec 01 THR Continue Ch11
Dec 05 MON Ch18: Elementary Chemical Kinetics
Dec 08 THR Continue Ch18
Dec 12 MON Review
Dec 19 MON Final Exam (Comprehensive) 3:00 p - 6:00 p


TEXT/ASSIGNED PROBLEMS

Text: First edition of Thermodynamics, Statistical Thermodynamics, and Kinetics, by T. Engel and P. Reid, along with the accompanying Solutions Manual. Publisher: Benjamin Cummings, first edition ("2006"). The publisher's web site is for the text is here.

Homework Problems (Homework will not be collected). Work all of the "Questions and Concepts" and all red "Problems" at the end of each chapter, along with additional problems that will be assigned (and listed on this web page) as the course proceeds.

Additional Problems
Ch1 P1.2, P1.5, P1.17
Ch2 P2.2, P2.28
Ch3 No extra problems
Ch4 P4.3
Ch5 P5.11, 5.21 (Omit P5.23, P5.26, and P5.28)
Ch6 P6.4, P6.9 (Omit P6.24 and P6.26)
Ch7 Omit all problems
Ch8 P8.13, P8.32 (Omit P8.24 and P8.33)
Ch9 No extra problems (Omit P9.6, P9.11, and P9.21)
Ch10 No extra problems (Omit P10.14)
Ch 11 No extra problems (Omit P11.5. Also note that P11.1 and 11.3 are not in the solution manual)
Ch 18 Work only problems P18.2, P18.4, P18.5, P18.9, P18.12, P18.30, P18.35. Note that solutions for some problems are in the solutions manual under Chapter 36.


OFFICE HOURS

Dr. Huskey
Fall 2005 Office Hours (232 Olson Hall)

Tuesday and Friday 8:30 - 9:30

Or by appointment (huskey@rutgers.edu)


GRADES/EXAMS

Grading: 10% attendance, 20% exam 1 (80 minutes), 20% exam 2 (80 minutes), 50% final exam. Attendance: students are responsible for signing a roster during each class to indicate their presence. The attendance grade will be computed as 10 - n, where n is the number of classes missed in excess of three (students who miss three or fewer classes, will receive the full 10 points).

To avoid any need for make-up exams, the score on the final exam can be used to replace the lowest score of the 80-minute exams (or an 80-minute exam missed for any reason).

Letter grades for the course will be assigned based on the following scale: A (100-85), B+ (84-80), B (79-70), C+ (69-65), C (64-55), D (54-45), F (44-0).


ADD/DROP/WITHDRAW

The last day to drop the course without receiving a W grade is 09-Sep-2005. The last day to drop a course with a W grade is 03-Nov-2005.

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