Download CHEM 340: Physical Chemistry for Biochemists I, Spring 2011

CHEM 340: Physical Chemistry for Biochemists I, Spring 2011
Instructor: Dr. Yoshitaka Ishii
Office 5414 SES, Telephone: 312-413-0076, email: [email protected]
Office Hours: Right after the class or by appointment
Lectures: M W F 2:00-2:50 p.m., Lecture Center D Rm001
Discussion: F 3:00-3:50 p.m., LC D Rm001
Website: http://www.chem.uic.edu/chem340/
TAs & TA Responsibility:
Yang Cui (Home Work & Quiz for Week 1-5 & Week 11-15; HW1-4, HW8-10, Q1 & 4)
John Russell (Home Work & Quiz for Week 6-10; HW5-7; Q2-3)
TA Office & Contacts: Yang (SES 5104; E-mail: [email protected] )
John (SES 4244; E-mail: [email protected]; Phone: 6-5393)
TA Office Hours: At the Friday discussion classes or by appointment
Prerequisites
Grade of C or better in Math 181, and grade of C or better in Chem 114 and grade of C or
better in Phys 107 or in Phys 142. Credit is not given in Chem 340 if the student has credit in
Chem 342.
Textbooks
• Thomas Engel, Gary Drobny and Philip Reid, “Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences”
Prentice Hall; ISBN-10: 0805382771 (mandatory). Please note that this text is currently out
of print, and it may take some time for you to obtain this at a major online book store.
• Any Calculus and General Physics textbook
• Handouts
Other Suggested Textbooks
• Lionel Raff, “Principle of Physical Chemistry”.
• Atkins and dePaula, “Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences”
• Atkins and dePaula, “Physical Chemistry” any edition
Topics
We will cover chapters 1-11 and 22, 24 of the Engel et al textbook on “Physical Chemistry for
the Life Sciences” More specifically we will cover the following concepts:
• Fundamental Concepts of Thermodynamics and the properties of gases
• Kinetic Theory of Gases
• Heat, Work, Internal Energy, Enthaply and the First Law of Thermodynamics
• State Functions: Internal Energy and Enthalpy
• Thermochemistry
• Carathéodory Principle, Entropy, the Second and Third Laws of Thermodynamics,
• Gibbs Free Energy and Chemical Equilibrium
• Phase Equilibria
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• Ideal and Real Solutions
• Electrolyte Solutions, Electrochemical Cells and Redox Reactions
• Biochemical Thermodynamics
• Biochemical Equilibria
• Transport Phenomena
Survival Guide
Chemistry 340 is a rigorous course covering the fundamentals and applications of Chemical
Thermodynamics. This course involves logical reasoning and quantitative problem solving to a
greater degree than most of the other courses you have taken. The only way to succeed in this
course is through hard work and only through hard work. You must keep up with the work
everyday, because succeeding topics build on and require an understanding of what was covered
before.
Here is what I expect from you:
1. Get to class on time and take careful notes.
2. Go through the textbook to find the relevant reading material. As you read work through the
mathematics and the examples provided by the author. Your goal is to understand not to
memorize!
3. Work on the homework assignment. Start working on the homework assignment as soon as
you receive it. It is impossible to do the entire assignment the night before it is due.
The TA’s are not allowed to provide solutions to the homework problems before the due date of
the assignment.
4. You are supposed to be able to solve all the homework assignments without referring the text
at the time of quizzes and exams.
Disability Accommodations
Students with disabilities who require accommodations for access and participation in this
course must be registered with the Office of Disability Services (ODS). Please contact ODS at
312/413-2183 (voice) or 312/413-0123 (TTY).
Academic Dishonesty
In all work (examinations, quizzes, homework problems, laboratory data) you must adhere
to the guidelines regarding academic honesty as described in the UIC Student Handbook.
Academic dishonesty will NOT be tolerated! A student who will be caught and proven to have
committed an act of academic dishonesty on any homework set, quiz or examination, will
receive a zero for the particular item and will automatically fail the course. The dishonest student
will be reported to the Head of the Chemistry Department and to the Dean of the School of
Liberal Arts and Science.
Attendance
Attendance and participation in all lectures is mandatory. All of the material covered during
class lecture periods and in discussion sessions is examinable. The use of cellular phones and
palm pilots or other such devices is not permitted during lectures, discussions and examinations.
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Academic Calendar for Spring Semester 2011
• January 10, M Instruction begins.
• January 17, M Martin Luther King, Jr., Day holiday. No classes.
• January 21, F Last day to complete late registration; last day to add a course(s) or make
section changes; Last day to submit Withdraw from Term request via Student Self-Service and
receive 100% cancellation of tuition and fees
• February 6, Su CampusCare deadline to submit waiver forms.
• March 18, F Last day for undergraduate students to use optional late drop in college office
and receive grade of W on academic record.
• March 21–25, M–F Spring vacation. No classes.
• April 29, F Instruction ends.
• May 2–6, M–F Final examinations. The exact day, time and location of the final
examination will be announced in class.
• May 10, Sa Semester ends.
Examinations
There will be three one-hour exams and the final exam. All exams including the final exam
are cumulative, that is, they may include all preceding lecture, textbook, problem set materials
either implicitly or explicitly. The tentative schedule of the exams is as follows:
First One-Hour Exam: Friday, February 11, 2010
Second One-Hour Exam: Friday, March 18, 2010
Third One-Hour Exam: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 (During the class)
Final Exam: to be announced in class (Entire Materials)
If you have a time conflict for the final exam with another final, then consult the rules and
regulations of the College of LAS referring to this type of conflicts and make arrangements for
the final exam with me two weeks prior to the final exam. THERE ARE NO MAKE-UP FOR
ONE-HOUR EXAMS!
Homework
Homework assignments will be given every week, about ten altogether. Homework sets will be
graded in terms of completion and correctness. Submission of homework sets is mandatory. No
late homework sets will be accepted.
Quiz
About 3-4 quizzes will be held approximately every two weeks between the Exams. The quiz
will be based on the problems given in homework assignments. There will be 2-3 unannounced
mini-quizzes during the class.
Grading Policy
One-Hour Exams: 300 points (100 points each)
Final Exam: 200 points
Homework: 100 points
Quiz:100 points; Class participation 20 points
Total number of points: 720
Grading scheme: “A” > 90%; “B” > 80%; “C” > 70; “D” > 50%; “E” < 50%
Final grades may be linearly scaled so that 20% of students can get “A”. Usually, there is very
little or no scaling.
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Class Calendar and approximate schedule for the Quizzes and Exams
Week
1
W
3
M
T
1/10 Class Begins +
Homework(HW) 1
1/17 MLK No Class
HW2 (web site)
1/24 HW3
4
1/31 HW4
HW3 Due
5
2/7
Review
HW4 Due
2/11 Exam 1
No DC
6
7
8
2/14 HW 5
2/21 HW 6
2/28
HW5 Due
Quiz 2
9
10
3/7 HW 7
3/14 HW8
Spring
Vacation
11
3/21
No Class (NC)
3/28
12
4/4
13
4/11 HW 10
HW9 Due
4/18
4/25
2
R
F
No Discussion
Class (DC)
HW1 Due
HW2 Due
Quiz 1
HW6 Due
14
15
16
Final Week
HW7 Due
Review
NC
HW8 Due
HW 9
Quiz 3
3/18 Exam 2
No DC
NC
Review
Quiz 4
4/13 Exam 3
HW10 Due
5/1 Instruction
ends
5/2
4