Chemistry 151- General Chemistry

Hi online CHEM 151 students!  I hope your semester is off to a good start.  If you haven’t gotten started in the course yet, after reading this measurements please read this page next: https://fe2.openlcc.net/chem151/welcome-to-chem-151-start-here/ – it will give you all the info you need to get started.  I will send these course updates and reminders out each week sometime near the end of the week or over the weekend, and they will concentrate on what is coming in the following week.

Due next week:

1. Quiz/Class Participation Assignment 1 is due Tuesday, Jan 16, Thanks to those of you who have already submitted it, I will continue looking at your responses and answering questions over the weekend and coming days.  See the link for instructions on how to complete and submit it.
2. uiz/Class Participation Assignment 2 is due Tuesday Jan 16.
3. Other Unit 1 assignments and deadlines are available in the Online Course Schedule

Online Homework:

I’m happy to see that many of you have been able to access the Online Homework Website and begin work.  Even though the first three assignments are not due until exam day, keeping up as you go through the material will be valuable and helpful!

Please make sure you are logged into the site when answering questions or your work will not be recorded and graded.  You should have received an email from the system with login instructions. This email would to to your LCC student email @mail.lcc.edu, NOT to D2L email.

If you are having trouble logging in or did not receive/cannot locate the email, your user name will be your LCC technology user ID.  Enter that user name and click “lost password”.  You should then receive an email (to your LCC student email @mail.lcc.edu, NOT to D2L email) with instructions to reset password and log in.

Please contact me if you are unable to log in.

Have a great week, and please do not hesitate to contact me should you have questions.

Welcome to the first semester of general chemistry, CHEM 151.  My name is Bruce Farris.  I am your instructor for the course and I look forward to working with you this semester! Everything you need to get started is at this link: Welcome to CHEM 151 – Start here. Please read, follow the directions, and contact me with any questions.

I look forward to working with you this semester!

At this point, all final exams and course assignments are completed with grades in the D2L gradebook. I suspect you’ve already seen them, but if you haven’t, final course grades are available in the gradebook comments. If you have questions about the grade total or final course grade please feel free to contact me. I truly enjoyed working with you last semester, and wish you the best for 2024, winter break, and your future endeavors!

Hi CHEM 151 Online Students,

Just a reminder that the available dates to take the final exam are today (Friday 12/8) and tomorrow  (Saturday 12/9).   The Downtown Campus Testing Center closes at 3pm on Friday and at 1pm on Saturday, and students have 1 hour after those times to finish testing. If you plan to test at West Campus, LCC East, or the Livingston County Center, please visit the Testing Hours and Locations Webpage for each location’s testing hours.

If this provides undue difficulty for you, please contact me as soon as possible so we can make arrangements.

Detailed information for the final exam is listed at this link:Final Exam. Please read it carefully.  There are three major differences from the unit exams for the final exam:

1. It is longer.  Please allocate 100 minutes to take it in the testing center.
2. You are allowed to take a 3″ by 5″ index card with anything you wish to write on it (2 sides, handwritten)

Hi online CHEM 151 students!  Just one more week in the semester!  Here’s a list nof due dates and how the last week should go:

Today, Monday 12/4

The window to take the Unit 5 exam ends TODAY with the Unit 5 homework assignments also due TODAY, Dec 4.  Unit 5 exam info is included further down in this document.

Tuesday, 12/5

Work for online homework will no longer be accepted for credit (Honors homework will still be available for those of you pursuing the Honors Option).  I will post your homework grade in the D2L Gradebook.  Also, all quiz grades will be posted in the D2L gradebook by Tuesday.  I will make every effort to have your Unit 5 exams graded and posted as well, but that may not happen until Wednesday

Wednesday 12/6 – Saturday 12/9

The final exam will be made available in the testing center. The window for taking it ends on a Saturday ( available Wed 12/6 through Saturday 12/9), not Monday as the unit exams were.. If this provides undue difficulty for you, please contact me as soon as possible so we can make arrangements.  Also, be sure to check the Testing Center nhours for Friday and Saturday: Testing hours and locations are at this link

Also remember you are allowed a 3″*5″ card (both sides, handwritten)

Final exam info is posted further down in this document.

Monday 12/11

Final exams will be graded and final course grades posted

 

Unit 5 Exam Info (due Monday 12/4)

Exam Information

The exam is a proctored, pen/pencil and paper exam.  It is not offered online on D2L.  It will be available during open Testing Center Days and Hours beginning Thursday 11/30 and ending Monday 12/4.

The exam will cover:

• Chemical Formulas and Nomenclature (there will be an eight point question)
• everything in Unit 4

Testing hours and locations are at this link

There is detailed information about the exams at this link.  Please read it carefully – it contains the answers to many frequently asked questions.  Let me know if you have additional questions after reading it.

For this exam, you will be provided a copy of the Periodic Table for Units 4-5.  A copy of the periodic table you will receive is at this link.

Tutoring and Help Opportunities from the Learning Commons

The link to the Learning Commons Chemistry regular tutoring schedule and special exam prep schedule is here (and on the right sidebar of this website)

Learning Commons Chemistry Tutoring Schedule

CHEM 151 Exam Prep sessions hosted by LCC tutoring

Additional Study Resources

Don’t forget to look at the Unit 5 – additional study resources page on this Website.  It contains many resources to help you prepare for the exam.  Please take a look at them.  One of those resources is a practice exam.  Please read more about the practice exam below:

Practice Exam

What the practice exam is:

This practice exam will be similar in length, number of questions, types of questions (multiple choice, short answer, numerical problems, etc) to your exam.  The practice exam will be useful as a general review and will help you see how prepared you are.  If the practice exam (without looking at your notes) is easy for you, the actual exam probably will be.  If it is difficult, the actual exam probably will be.

What the practice exam is NOT:

The actual exam will NOT be the same as the practice exam with only a few numbers changed.  Do NOT think that if you only study and memorize the questions on the practice exam that you will be ready for the exam because the questions will be the same. 

Final Exam

Detailed information for the final exam is listed at this link:Final Exam. Please read it carefully.  There are three major differences from the unit exams for the final exam:

1. It is longer.  Please allocate 100 minutes to take it in the testing center.
2. You are allowed to take a 3″ by 5″ index card with anything yoiu wish to write on it (2 sides, handwritten)
3. The window for taking it ends on a Saturday ( available Wed 12/6 through Saturday 12/9), not Monday as the unit exams were.. If this provides undue difficulty for you, please contact me as soon as possible so we can make arrangements.

Hi online CHEM 151 students!  I hope all of you had a good Thanksgiving!   Your Unit 4 exams and quizzes have been returned via email (please contact me if you have questions about the exams or grading) and hopefully yopu are well on your way into the last (and shortest) unit, Unit 5.

The window to take the Unit 5 exam is Nov 30-Dec 4, with the Unit 5 homework assignments due Dec 4.

Other Unit 5 due dates and information (as well as a preview of the Final Exam) is listed below.

Hang in there, the end of the semester and Winter Break will be there before we know it!

Quiz and Class Participations for Unit 5

• Quiz/Class Participation Assignment 12 was originally due on Nov 27.  Thanks to those of you who have turned it in.  If you haven’t turned it in yet, I will accept them through tomorrow (Nov 30) since I didn’t get out a reminder and with the unusual Monday due date it was easy to miss.
• Quiz/Class Participation Assignment 13 (the last one) is due Thur, Nov 3o
• recall that the D2L gradebook automatically drops the three lowest quiz/class participation assignments.

Unit 5 Exam Info (due Monday 12/4)

Exam Information

The exam is a proctored, pen/pencil and paper exam.  It is not offered online on D2L.  It will be available during open Testing Center Days and Hours beginning Thursday 11/30 and ending Monday 12/4.

The exam will cover:

• Chemical Formulas and Nomenclature (there will be an eight point question)
• everything in Unit 4

Testing hours and locations are at this link

There is detailed information about the exams at this link.  Please read it carefully – it contains the answers to many frequently asked questions.  Let me know if you have additional questions after reading it.

For this exam, you will be provided a copy of the Periodic Table for Units 4-5.  A copy of the periodic table you will receive is at this link.

Tutoring and Help Opportunities from the Learning Commons

The link to the Learning Commons Chemistry regular tutoring schedule and special exam prep schedule is here (and on the right sidebar of this website)

Learning Commons Chemistry Tutoring Schedule

CHEM 151 Exam Prep sessions hosted by LCC tutoring

Additional Study Resources

Don’t forget to look at the Unit 5 – additional study resources page on this Website.  It contains many resources to help you prepare for the exam.  Please take a look at them.  One of those resources is a practice exam.  Please read more about the practice exam below:

Practice Exam

What the practice exam is:

This practice exam will be similar in length, number of questions, types of questions (multiple choice, short answer, numerical problems, etc) to your exam.  The practice exam will be useful as a general review and will help you see how prepared you are.  If the practice exam (without looking at your notes) is easy for you, the actual exam probably will be.  If it is difficult, the actual exam probably will be.

What the practice exam is NOT:

The actual exam will NOT be the same as the practice exam with only a few numbers changed.  Do NOT think that if you only study and memorize the questions on the practice exam that you will be ready for the exam because the questions will be the same. 

Final Exam

Detailed information for the final exam is listed at this link:Final Exam. Please read it carefully.  There are three major differences from the unit exams for the final exam:

1. It is longer.  Please allocate 100 minutes to take it in the testing center.
2. You are allowed to take a 3″ by 5″ index card with anything yoiu wish to write on it (2 sides, handwritten)
3. The window for taking it ends on a Saturday ( available Wed 12/6 through Saturday 12/9), not Monday as the unoit exams were.. If this provides undue difficulty for you, please contact me as soon as possible so we can make arrangements.

 

Hi online CHEM 151 students!  At this point, you should be finished with Unit 4 or making your final preparations to complete the Unit 4 Exam.  The window to take the Unit 4 exam is Nov 16-20, with the Unit 4 homework assignments due Nov 20.

The Unit 4 exam format and the process for taking it is the same as the previous exams.  The information is listed below at the end of this posting.

Have a great Thanksgiving and let me know if you have questions or need assistance!

Hi online CHEM 151 students!   I hope all is going well for you and you are off to a good start on Unit 4.  Units 4 and 5 are shorter than the first three units so the exams will come faster now (but hopefully will be over smaller chunks of material).  Your Unit 4 exam window will be 11/16-11/20.  Other deadlines for Unit 4 are in the Online Course Schedule with reminders below.

Quiz/Class Participation Assignments 10 and 11

Quiz/Class Participation Assignment 10, covering Chemical Equilibrium, was due Nov 9.  Since I did not get out a reminder, I will still accept it — please turn it in by early next week if you wish to and you haven’t already.

Quiz/Class Participation Assignment 11, covering Acids and Bases , is due Thursday Nov 16.

Unit 4 Homework

The Unit 4 Homework assignments are due 11/20

I hope you have a good week and please let me know if you have questions or need assistance!

 

Hi online CHEM 151 students!   This is a final reminder to complete your Unit 3 exam if you haven’t already – the deadline is during testing center hours Monday, Oct 30.  See more details about the exam below.

Additionally, after completing the Unit 3 exam you should begin work on Unit 4.  All deadlines for Unit 4 can be found on the course schedule.  The online homework for Unit 4 is available now and the next Quiz / Class Participation exercise will be due 11/9.

Unit 3 Exam Info (due Monday 10/30)

Exam Information

The exam is a proctored, pen/pencil and paper exam.  It is not offered online on D2L.  It will be available during open Testing Center Days and Hours beginning Thursday 10/26 and ending Monday 10/30.

The exam will cover:

• Chemical Formulas and Nomenclature (there will be an eight point question)
• everything in Unit 3

Testing hours and locations are at this link

There is detailed information about the exams at this link.  Please read it carefully – it contains the answers to many frequently asked questions.  Let me know if you have additional questions after reading it.

For this exam, you will be provided a copy of the Periodic Table for Units 1-3.  A copy of the periodic table you will receive is at this link.

Tutoring and Help Opportunities from the Learning Commons

The link to the Learning Commons Chemistry regular tutoring schedule and special exam prep schedule is here (and on the right sidebar of this website)

Learning Commons Chemistry Tutoring Schedule

CHEM 151 Exam Prep sessions hosted by LCC tutoring

Additional Study Resources

Don’t forget to look at the Unit 3 – additional study resources page on this Website.  It contains many resources to help you prepare for the exam.  Please take a look at them.  One of those resources is a practice exam.  Please read more about the practice exam below:

Practice Exam

What the practice exam is:

This practice exam will be similar in length, number of questions, types of questions (multiple choice, short answer, numerical problems, etc) to your exam.  The practice exam will be useful as a general review and will help you see how prepared you are.  If the practice exam (without looking at your notes) is easy for you, the actual exam probably will be.  If it is difficult, the actual exam probably will be.

What the practice exam is NOT:

The actual exam will NOT be the same as the practice exam with only a few numbers changed.  Do NOT think that if you only study and memorize the questions on the practice exam that you will be ready for the exam because the questions will be the same. 

Hi online CHEM 151 students!  I hope the end of Unit 3 has been going  well and smoothly and all is well with you.

Here is a list of updates and reminders for the coming week (including the Unit 3 exam)

Quiz/Class Participation 9

Quiz/Class Participation Assignment 9, covering Basic Concepts of Chemical Bonding & Molecular Geometry and Bonding Theory, is due Thursday Oct 26.

Unit 3 Exam and Homework

The window to take the Unit 3 exam is Oct 26-30, with the Unit 3 homework assignments due Oct 30

Unit 3 Exam Info (due Monday 10/30)

Exam Information

The exam is a proctored, pen/pencil and paper exam.  It is not offered online on D2L.  It will be available during open Testing Center Days and Hours beginning Thursday 10/26 and ending Monday 10/30.

The exam will cover:

• Chemical Formulas and Nomenclature (there will be an eight point question)
• everything in Unit 3

Testing hours and locations are at this link

There is detailed information about the exams at this link.  Please read it carefully – it contains the answers to many frequently asked questions.  Let me know if you have additional questions after reading it.

For this exam, you will be provided a copy of the Periodic Table for Units 1-3.  A copy of the periodic table you will receive is at this link.

Tutoring and Help Opportunities from the Learning Commons

The link to the Learning Commons Chemistry regular tutoring schedule and special exam prep schedule is here (and on the right sidebar of this website)

Learning Commons Chemistry Tutoring Schedule

CHEM 151 Exam Prep sessions hosted by LCC tutoring

Additional Study Resources

Don’t forget to look at the Unit 3 – additional study resources page on this Website.  It contains many resources to help you prepare for the exam.  Please take a look at them.  One of those resources is a practice exam.  Please read more about the practice exam below:

Practice Exam

What the practice exam is:

This practice exam will be similar in length, number of questions, types of questions (multiple choice, short answer, numerical problems, etc) to your exam.  The practice exam will be useful as a general review and will help you see how prepared you are.  If the practice exam (without looking at your notes) is easy for you, the actual exam probably will be.  If it is difficult, the actual exam probably will be.

What the practice exam is NOT:

The actual exam will NOT be the same as the practice exam with only a few numbers changed.  Do NOT think that if you only study and memorize the questions on the practice exam that you will be ready for the exam because the questions will be the same.