HUNTER COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

ESSENTIALS OF GENERAL CHEMISTRY
Chemistry 100 Syllabus
Professor: Dr. Namby Krishnamachari
Office M152 Hunter North Bldg. Phone: (212) 772 4042
E-mail: nkrishna@hunter.cuny.edu
Office Hours: Th 12.00 pm - 1.00 pm, or any time after the class or by
appointment (but you must email me in advance)
Required Text:
Introductory Chemistry: A Foundation by Steven S.
Zumdahl,
Donald J. DeCoste, 7th edition
Edition Cengage Learning
Blackboard 9.1:
You have to use your hunter email to log in on Blackboard.
Instructions on how to access the course website on blackboard can be
found at:
http://bb.hunter.cuny.edu. You should check the site regularly.
It can also be used to communicate with your classmates.
Blackboard is an excellent tool. I will post periodically announcements,
additional resources and helpful hints. The lecture presented during the
class will be available for you to download from blackboard under Course
Documents Section. Each lecture will be posted online PRIOR to the
class period it will be presented. You should read the material before
coming to class as well.
Email: You can find information about Hunter email through a link at:
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/icit/help-docs/e-mail-faq
Your username and password should have been mailed to you. Please
make sure that if you are not using this email account, you set your mail
to forward to an account that you do use. Instructions on how to forward
mail can be found through the link above. We will be sending you
important emails through blackboard. The information you may miss is
likely to impact your grade if I don't have email contact with you.
Required Homework:
We will be using Sapling Learning
homework.
More details will be provided on the first day of classes and on
Blackboard.

Online

Required Clicker: We will be using iclickers, which you will need to

purchase in the Hunter Bookstore. If you already have one from your
Psychology class, you can use it in this class. You will get a $10 rebate
coupon when you purchase the textbook and you can use that to buy your
clicker. After purchasing you will have to register your iclicker at
http://www.iclicker.com/dnn/Support/RegisterYouriclicker/tabid/174/Default
.aspx

Please register with your full first and last name and your Hunter
College blackboard number so I can sync your iclicker with my roster.
TO FIND YOUR Blackboard number: log in on blackboard and under
tools on the left side you will see personal information. Click on that, then
click edit personal information and on that page you will see username
and 20 digits number, that's the one you need to copy and paste for your
iclicker registration.
Iclikers will count as your participation in the class. More details will be
provided on the first day of classes.
A. DESCRIPTION
This course will present essential facts, laws, and theories of general
chemistry.
B. OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to
develop problem-solving skills in introductory chemistry, use definition,
concepts, and ideas to predict how a chemical process will occur, test the
understanding of the basic concepts.
C. GRADING:
Four midterm tests (15% each) and a comprehensive final (20%) will be
given.
Homework (10%) and iclickers (10%) will count towards your final grade
as well.
EXAMINATION POLICY
1. Cheating on an exam will result in an automatic disciplinary F for
the course.
2. Students who arrive after the first exam has been turned in will
not be allowed to take the exam even if the lateness was not
their fault.
3. Extra time will not be given to students who arrive late.
4. NO MAKE-UP EXAMS!!
5. NO EXCUSE will be accepted for missing more than one exam.
All cell phones, pagers, CD players, MP3 players, etc., must be turned off
while in the class. Any students who disrupt the class will be asked to
leave.
NO cell phones or pocket PCs are permitted during the exams.
Academic Dishonesty: Hunter College regards acts of academic dishonesty
(e.g., plagiarism, cheating on examinations, obtaining unfair advantage, and
falsification of records and official documents) as serious offenses against the
values of intellectual honesty. The college is committed to enforcing the CUNY
Policy on Academic Integrity and will pursue cases of academic dishonesty
according to the Hunter College Academic Integrity Procedures.

Tentative Class Schedule

(It can be changed without notice)
DATE

TOPIC

Thu Aug. 29
Mon Sep. 9th
Thu Sep. 12th
Mon Sep. 16th
Thu Sep. 19th
Mon Sep. 23rd
Thu Sep. 26th
Mon Sep. 30th
Thu Oct. 3rd
Mon Oct. 7th
Thu Oct. 10th
Tue Oct. 15th

th

Thu Oct. 17th

Mon Oct. 21st
Thu Oct. 24th
Mon Oct. 28th
Thu Oct. 31st
Mon Nov. 4th
Thu Nov. 7th
Mon Nov. 11th
Thu Nov. 14th
Mon Nov. 18th
Thu Nov. 21st
Mon Nov. 25th
Nov. 28th to

Introduction to Chemistry 100

Measurements and Calculations
Matter
Elements, Atoms and Ions
Nomenclature
Nomenclature
Chemical Reactions
Reaction/Review for Exam 1
EXAM 1
Chemical composition
Chemical Composition
Monday Schedule
Chemical Quantities
Chemical Quantities
solutions
Solutions/Review for Exam 2
EXAM 2
Acids and Bases
Acids and Bases
Gases
Gases
Modern Atomic theory
Chemical bonding
Chemical Bonding
EXAM 3
Thanksgiving Recess

CHAPTER

Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapters 2-6
Chapter 8
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 9
Chapter 15
Chapter 15
Chapters 7-9 and 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 16
Chapter 13
Chapter 13
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 12
Chapters 11-13 and 16

Dec. 1st
Mon Dec. 2nd
Thu Dec. 5th
Mon Dec. 9th
Thu Dec. 12th
THU Dec.
19th

Energy
Liquids and Solids
Equilibrium
EXAM 4
FINAL EXAM
11.30-1.30

Chapter 10
Chapter 14
Chapter 17
Chapters 10, 14, 17
Cumulative
Chapters 2-17