Below you will find links to the essentials of Chemistry 162:

Covalent bonding, chemical kinetics, liquids and solids, properties of solutions, the elements in groups 1A-4A, the elements in groups 5A-8A, and transition metals and coordination chemistry. Includes laboratory. Prerequisite: 1.7 in CHEM 152. Offered: AWSpS.

July 10 2007, 11:17 AM

Comments and Suggestions from the Class

Please take a look at what your peers are suggesting for things that would help learning the material from this course.  Click here for a listing of the comments and my replies in parenthesis.

June 18 2007, 1:21 PM

Chemistry Study Center Hours:

MTH     9:00am-3:30pm
F           9:00am-1:00pm 

Natalia Doubina: M 9-12:30, Th 9-1

Lisa Brines: T 12-3:30, F 9-1

June 16 2007, 1:49 PM

Preliminaries

0. See the course website for reminders, syllabus, and other important and helpful information:

http://faculty.washington.edu/rangel/Chemistry162/index.shtml

There is also a discussion group:

https://catalyst.washington.edu/webtools/epost/register.cgi?owner=rangel&id=1932
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I. Course Teaching Assistants:

• Lisa Brines (lbrines@u.washington.edu)
• Natalia Doubina (ndoubina@u.washington.edu)
• Inigo Aguirre de Carcer (inihaze@u.washington.edu)
• Ganapathi Venkatesh (mgvenkat@u.washington.edu)

II. Lecture Demonstrations: Marianne Cavelti     

(Please do not cross stage in classroom, Bagley 131, before, during, or after class, to avoid accidents involving demos and/or equipment.)

III. For questions concerning course administration, please contact Tracy Harvey (harvey@chem.washington.edu)

VI. Student Stockroom Manager: Angie Steuermann

V. Use Lockers on 3rd floor of Bagley.  Anything left in lockers on 2nd floor may be removed due to repairs in the hall.

VI. Weekly Deadlines:

• Quiz in Sections (first 15 minutes)
• Homework due Monday by 11:59 PM (WebAssign)
• PreLab due by 8:30 Wednesday (before 1st lab of week, WebAssign)
• Lab Books to be filled during Lab
• PostLab due by following lab (except last report due at end of that lab)

Due Dates and Lab, Lecture, and Section schedules on syllabus

VII. 3 Exams (1 hour each, in class, dates and details written in syllabus)

Do lots of practice problems.  Exams and quizzes will closely parallel examples in textbook and/or the problems posted the course website.

VIII. Course materials available at the University of Washington Bookstore

IX. Help! (Office hours, Teaching Assistants, Chemistry Study Center, Undergraduate Services, See Syllabus for Details)

X. COURSE OBJECTIVES

(1) The central themes covered in chapters 14-20:

♦ Covalent bonding: orbitals

♦ Chemical kinetics

♦ Liquids and solids: structure and intermolecular

♦ Properties of solutions

♦ Representative elements - group 1A - 4A

♦ Representative elements - group 5A - 8A

♦ Transition metals and coordination chemistry

(2) Develop laboratory, data analysis, and scientific writing skills.

(3) Emphasize and apply the concepts learned in lectures. 

Below are links to additional, helpful information and practice problems for Chemistry 162 (all optional):