Chemistry 152 – General Chemistry II

Hi Online CHEM 152 Students,

Just a quick reminder that Monday, May 6 is the last day to take Final Exam Part 1, covering Units 1 and 2.

Final Exams

The final exam will be in 2 parts.

Final Part 2 will be given first – from April 27 through May 1.  It will cover material from unit 3 and unit 4.

Final Part 1 will be given last – from May 2 to May 6. It will cover material from unit 1 and unit 2.

Any extensions beyond Monday 5/6 will require extenuating circumstances and will require that you receive an Incomplete grade for the course.

The order of the exams is reversed to give you more time to prepare for the exam covering the older material.

Like the Unit exams,  each part of the final exam is a proctored, pen/pencil and paper exam.  It is not offered online on D2L. Testing hours and locations are at this link.

Each part of the final exam will be similar in length and format to the unit exams.  You will be given 80 minutes for each part of the final.

Resources supplied while taking exam

You will be given the same resources as you were given or the unit exams:

For Final Part 2, you will be provided a copy of the Periodic Table for Units 3-4.  A copy of the periodic table you will receive is at this link.

For Final Part 1, you will be provided a copy of the Periodic Table for Units 1-2.  A copy of the periodic table you will receive is at this link.

You are allowed to take a 3″x 5″ index card (one side, handwritten)  for use on each part of the Final Exam (one for Part 2, and another for Part 1).  You can write anything you wish on the card to use as notes.  It must be handwritten (not typed on computer) .

Resources for preparing for the Final Exams

• All the Unit 1-4 materials on this website
• All the practice exams and unit exam review questions from Units 1-4 on this website
• Your previous unit exams
• There are also additional final exam review questions (with answers) available at these links:
  • Final Part 2 Review Questions (Units 3 and 4)
  • Final Part 1 Review Questions (Units 1 and 2)

As always, contact me if you have questions about the class or have any last minute questions about the material before beginning the exams.

Hi Online CHEM 152 Students,

You are in the home stretch of the final week of the semester, with only the final exam(s) remaining.  Here are the remaining reminders and due dates:

• All Unit Exams, Quizzes, and the Online Homework totals are in the D2L gradebook, with only the Final Exams (Part 1 and 2) remaining.   The gradebook automatically drops the two lowest quiz grades and the lowest Unit exam grade.  Please let me know if you have questions involving any of the posted grades.

Final Exams

The final exam will be in 2 parts.

Final Part 2 will be given first – from April 27 through May 1.  It will cover material from unit 3 and unit 4.

Final Part 1 will be given last – from May 2 to May 6. It will cover material from unit 1 and unit 2.

Any extensions beyond Monday 5/6 will require extenuating circumstances and will require that you receive an Incomplete grade for the course.

The order of the exams is reversed to give you more time to prepare for the exam covering the older material.

Like the Unit exams,  each part of the final exam is a proctored, pen/pencil and paper exam.  It is not offered online on D2L. Testing hours and locations are at this link.

Each part of the final exam will be similar in length and format to the unit exams.  You will be given 80 minutes for each part of the final.

Resources supplied while taking exam

You will be given the same resources as you were given or the unit exams:

For Final Part 2, you will be provided a copy of the Periodic Table for Units 3-4.  A copy of the periodic table you will receive is at this link.

For Final Part 1, you will be provided a copy of the Periodic Table for Units 1-2.  A copy of the periodic table you will receive is at this link.

You are allowed to take a 3″x 5″ index card (one side, handwritten)  for use on each part of the Final Exam (one for Part 2, and another for Part 1).  You can write anything you wish on the card to use as notes.  It must be handwritten (not typed on computer) .

Resources for preparing for the Final Exams

• All the Unit 1-4 materials on this website
• All the practice exams and unit exam review questions from Units 1-4 on this website
• Your previous unit exams
• There are also additional final exam review questions (with answers) available at these links:
  • Final Part 2 Review Questions (Units 3 and 4)
  • Final Part 1 Review Questions (Units 1 and 2)

As always, contact me if you have questions about the class or have any last minute questions about the material before beginning the exams.

 

Hi Online CHEM 152 Students,

I hope you had a good weekend and your study of Moleclar Orbitals has gone well.  Here are due dates coming up immediately:

• Quiz 5 and Quiz 6 are both available now and due Monday April 22.
• The Online homework for Molecular Orbitals is due  Monday April 22
• The Unit 4 exam window is April 19-23
• The last day to drop any 16 week Spring 2024 Semester LCC Course with a record of W (including this course) is Monday April 22.

Online Homework Grades

The last online homework assignment (Molecular Orbitals) is due Monday April 22.  On Thursday, April 25, I will remove login access to the online homework site and post your homework grades to the D2L gradebook, so you will know your homework totals going into the Final Exams.  After I have removed login access, you will still be able to access the homework for practice if you wish but your work will not be recorded or credited.

Final Exams

The final exam will be in 2 parts.

Final Part 2 will be given first – from April 27 through May 1.  It will cover material from unit 3 and unit 4.

Final Part 1 will be given last – from May 2 to May 6. It will cover material from unit 1 and unit 2.

Any extensions beyond Monday 5/6 will require extenuating circumstances and will require that you receive an Incomplete grade for the course.

The orders on the exams are reversed to give you more time to prepare for the exam covering the older material.

Like the Unit exams,  each part of the final exam is a proctored, pen/pencil and paper exam.  It is not offered online on D2L. Testing hours and locations are at this link.

Each part of the final exam will be similar in length and format to the unit exams.  You will be given 80 minutes for each part of the final.

Resources supplied while taking exam

You will be given the same resources as you were given or the unit exams:

For Final Part 2, you will be provided a copy of the Periodic Table for Units 3-4.  A copy of the periodic table you will receive is at this link.

For Final Part 1, you will be provided a copy of the Periodic Table for Units 1-2.  A copy of the periodic table you will receive is at this link.

You are allowed to take a 3″x 5″ index card (one side, handwritten)  for use on each part of the Final Exam (one for Part 2, and another for Part 1).  You can write anything you wish on the card to use as notes.  It must be handwritten (not typed on computer) .

Resources for preparing for the Final Exams

• All the Unit 1-4 materials on this website
• All the practice exams and unit exam review questions from Units 1-4 on this website
• Your previous unit exams
• There are also additional final exam review questions (with answers) available at these links:
  • Final Part 2 Review Questions (Units 3 and 4)
  • Final Part 1 Review Questions (Units 1 and 2)

As always, contact me if you have questions about the class or have any last minute questions about the material before beginning the exams.

Hi Online CHEM 152 Students,

I hope your study of Electrochemistry in Unit 4 is going well.  You should be winding it up shortly and moving to the last topic of the course, Molecular Orbitals.  Some updates and reminders for the upcoming week are listed below:

• The Online homework for electrochemistry is due April 15
• Quiz 5 and Quiz 6 are both available now and due Monday April 22.
• The Online homework for Molecular Orbitals is due April 22
• The Unit 4 exam window is April 19-23 (more info below)

Last Day to drop LCC Courses with a Record of W

The last day to drop any 16 week Spring 2024 Semester LCC Course with a record of W (including this course) is Monday April 22.

Unit 4 Exam Info

The Unit 4 exam will be available in the testing centers from Friday, April 19 to Tuesday, April 23. Testing hours and locations are at this link.

The exam covers everything in Unit 4 .

The exam is a proctored, pen/pencil and paper exam.  It is not offered online on D2L.  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 3-4.  A copy of the periodic table you will receive is at this link.

Additional Study Resources

Don’t forget to look at the Unit 4 – 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 152 Students,

Unit 3 is complete and I hope your study of Electrochemistry is off to a good start.  Some updates and reminders for the upcoming week are listed below:

Unit 3 Exam

The graded Unit 3 exam was emailed to you today.  Please let me know if you have any questions about the problems on the exam or grading and also check to make sure I totaled the points correctly.

Quiz 4

I will grade and return Quiz 4 to you in the next day or two.

Unit 4

Unit 4 contains two topics — Electrochemistry and Molecular Orbitals.  Hopefully you are progressing well on Electrochemistry (the longer of the two topics), with a target of completing it and starting Molecular Orbitals (the shortest topic) by the end of the weekend.  The Unit 4 due dates are listed on the Online Course Schedule.

I hope you had a good view of the solar eclipse today and have a good week – please let me know if you have questions or need assistance with the course.

Just a quick reminder that the Unit 3 exam for CHEM 152 is due today in the LCC Testing Center.  Testing hours and locations are at this link.  See additional information about the exam below.

Unit 3 Exam

Exam Information

Like Units 1 and 2, 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  from March 29 to April 2.

The exam will cover 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 3-4.  A copy of the periodic table you will receive is at this link.

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 152 Students,

I hope you had a good Spring Break and your return to school and studies last week went well.  Some updates and reminders for the upcoming week are listed below:

Unit 3 progress

This weeks topic (to remain on schedule) is Chemical Thermodynamics.  You should be wrapping up Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry if you haven’t already — the online homework for that topic is due tonight (let me know if that causes you undue problems and we can make arragements).

Unit 3 due dates (see Online Course Schedule for details)

• Online homework : Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry – Tonight (Mar 25)
• Online homework : Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry – April 1
• Quiz 4 – April 1
• Unit 3 exam – Window Mar 29 – April 2 (more info below)

Unit 3 Exam

Exam Information

Like Units 1 and 2, 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  from March 29 to April 2.

The exam will cover 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 3-4.  A copy of the periodic table you will receive is at this link.

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 152 Students,

I hope you had a good Spring Break and your return to school and studies last week went well.  Some updates and reminders for the upcoming week are listed below:

Unit 2 Recap

Your Unit 2 Exams have been returned to you with grades and comments — please let me know if you have questions about how to complete any of the problems or the grading.  The exam average was 65.4.  Quiz 3 will be returned this week — I am grading those with the in-person class that completed them just after spring break.

Unit 3

The first (and shortest) topic of Unit 3 is Oxidation-Reduction.  You should be wrapping it up now to be on schedule — with online homework on that topic due today.

Other due dates in Unit 3 are available in the Online Course Schedule.  This week’s focus is Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry.

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

LCC is on Spring Break the coming week. Since this is an asynchronous online course, I realize you might wish to operate on the schedule that best works for you.  Therefore, Unit 3 (the next Unit) is available now.

Extra time is built into Unit 3 for Spring Break, so even though the material is available should you choose to study it there is no expectation for you to do so — and if you choose to not work over Spring Break at all you will still have the normal amount of days allocated for that material.

The last day to take the Unit 2 exams is today.  I will pick them up early next week on campus and grade them and post grades on D2L by sometime next weekend at the latest.

Have a great Spring Break and I will post the next announcement by the end of next weekend!

I hope your study of Chemical Kinetics has gone well and your study of Nuclear Chemistry is progressing.  Please feel free to comment should you have questions.

Some announcements for the remainder of Unit 2 are below – please read everything below carefully and let me know if you have questions.

Quizzes and Online Homework

Quiz 3 is the only quiz for this unit and is due Monday 2/26.

Both online homework assignments for Unit 2 (Chemical Kinetics and Nuclear Chemistry) are also due Monday 2/26.

Unit 2 Exam

Like Unit 1, 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 Wednesday 2/28 and ending Saturday 3/2.

Please note that I departed from the Friday through Tuesday window used last semester (and that we will use for most exams) due to LCC being on Spring Break the week of March 4-10.  If this causes undue hardship for you, please let me know — the Testing Center does offer limited hours over Spring Break.

The exam will cover everything in Unit 2.

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.

Additional Study Resources

Don’t forget to look at the Unit 2 – 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. 

Unit 3 is next

Unit 3 comes next.  It covers three topics: Oxidation-Reduction Reactions, Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry, and Chemical Thermodynamics.   See the Online Course Schedule for assignments and deadlines for Unit 3. As you will see, I’ve put no expectation of work over Spring Break into the suggested pacing for the course, but the resources are there should you wish to begin over this time, since this is an online class and I realize many of you have different schedules, plans, obligations, etc.

Best wishes for a strong finish to Unit 2, a good Spring Break, and let me know if you have questions or need assistance with the class.