Finals Week is here!

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Finals week is almost here.  Click below to see dates, times, and other important information for the Fall 2016 CHM 110 and CHM 111 finals.

CHM 110 sections 1 and 2 (MW lecture)

The final exam for CHM 110 sections 1 and 2 will be given on Monday December 5th at 11:00 AM.  The final will be given in the normal classroom, Room 5401.

The final exam in CHM 110 is cumulative. It covers all material from Chapter 1 through the material in Chapter 9 discussed on the last day of lecture class. For the older material, I recommend using the same study guides from this web site that you used for the previous tests. Use the previous three tests as a set of practice questions to help you practice for the old material. Don’t just read over the answers – copy the questions to a separate page and re-work the questions and problems. Also, re-work examples in the daily course notes that we worked in class.

The new material on the final exam comes from chapters 8 and 9. Relevant textbook sections are:

  • 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.6: Orbital diagrams, electron configuration, periodic trends. You will be expected to write electron configurations and/or fill in orbital diagrams for elements using the periodic table. You will be expected to identify valence electrons, and to be able to explain what makes them important with respect to chemical properties. You will be expected to tell which of a series of elements is larger/smaller in terms of atomic radius and which is easier to ionize.
  • 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6: Chemical bonds, electronegativity, octet rule, dot structures of atoms and simple molecules. You will be expected to describe the different kinds of chemical bonds and recognize what type of bond is in a given chemical compound. You will be expected to draw dot formulas for elements and simple molecules.

This material is covered in the daily notes on pages 160-188.

CHM 110 section 3 (TTH lecture)

The final exam for CHM 110 section 3 will be given on Thursday December 8th at 9:30 AM.  The final will be given in the normal classroom, Room 5408.

The final exam in CHM 110 is cumulative. It covers all material from Chapter 1 through the material in Chapter 9 discussed on the last day of lecture class. For the older material, I recommend using the same study guides from this web site that you used for the previous tests. Use the previous three tests as a set of practice questions to help you practice for the old material. Don’t just read over the answers – copy the questions to a separate page and re-work the questions and problems. Also, re-work examples in the daily course notes that we worked in class.

The new material on the final exam comes from chapters 8 and 9. Relevant textbook sections are:

  • 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.6: Orbital diagrams, electron configuration, periodic trends. You will be expected to write electron configurations and/or fill in orbital diagrams for elements using the periodic table. You will be expected to identify valence electrons, and to be able to explain what makes them important with respect to chemical properties. You will be expected to tell which of a series of elements is larger/smaller in terms of atomic radius and which is easier to ionize.
  • 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6: Chemical bonds, electronegativity, octet rule, dot structures of atoms and simple molecules. You will be expected to describe the different kinds of chemical bonds and recognize what type of bond is in a given chemical compound. You will be expected to draw dot formulas for elements and simple molecules.

This material is covered in the daily notes on pages 160-188.

CHM 111

The final exam for CHM 110 sections 1 and 2 will be given on Wednesday December 7th at 9:30 AM.  The final will be given in the normal classroom, Room 5408.

The final exam in CHM 111 is cumulative, covering all material from chapter 10 through chapter 16. For the older material, use the same study guides and resources you used for Tests 1-3, and use those old tests as practice problems. Don’t just read over the old tests; copy them to separate sheets and re-work the questions and problems as practice. Also, re-work examples from the daily class notes.

The new material on the final exam comes from Chapter 16. Relevant textbook sections are:

  • 16.4, 16.5, 16.6: pH of salt solutions, pH of buffer solutions. You will be expected to calculate the pH of salts – which means you’ll also need to be able to identify which salts are acidic/basic/neutral. You will be expected to describe the important properties of a buffer, explain how buffers are made (and from what kind of chemicals), and calculate the pH of buffer solutions using the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation.

This material is covered in the daily notes on pages 154-177.

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