If you have short questions or would like to set up an appointment to see me outside of office hours, e-mail (swhite@brynmawr.edu) is very efficient. If you would like to be on the Chem 103 mailing list please send me an e-mail from your account. Solutions to quizzes and tests, copies of handouts, and other announcements may be found on the Chemistry 103 WWW site. Its URL is: http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Chem/Chem103/swhite/index.html.

Writing Assignments—Quizzes 3, 6, and 9 will be replaced by a writing assignment due at the end of Friday’s class. Students may work as individuals or pairs. Select an even numbered exercise or advanced exercise (assigned or not) from the preceding 2-3 chapters in the text. Write a solution to the exercise in 2-3 pages (word process please, but equations may be hand-written). Carefully explain the chemical principles demonstrated and your problem-solving strategy. It is not necessary to explain algebraic manipulations in detail. One writing approach would be to imagine that you are teaching a student how to solve this problem. You are encouraged to try your solution out on a classmate as you revise your work.

During the last 10 minutes of class on Fridays you will have a quiz which will cover material through the end of that Wednesday’s class. Please bring a calculator. At the instructor’s discretion one or more quizzes may be replaced by a take-home exercise or writing assignment. Some quizzes may be completed by teams of students designated by the instructor. Graded work may be picked up outside of Rm. 202. Each quiz is worth 10 points and the lowest two grades will be dropped. There will generally be a "reading question" on material in the text not covered in class and a typical problem. Quizzes are designed to encourage you to keep up with the class any many students find exams more challenging than quizzes.

Exams will emphasize problem solving skills and chemical concepts. Each exam will include at least one problem which resembles an assigned homework problem and a portion of the exam may require creative insights or synthetic skills. The final exam will be cumulative and scheduled during the exam week. Bring a working calculator to all quizzes and exams! To practice for an exam, randomly choose 4 to 6 text problems which are totally new to you and solve them completely within 50 minutes.

Your final grade will be determined by the sum of your quiz and homework grades, your hour exam grades, the final exam and your laboratory grade. The breakdown is as follows:

Laboratory 33%

Class 67%

3 Hour Exams and Quizzes 47% (Best three of four)

Cumulative Final Exam 20%

Your 8 highest quiz grades will be counted. Your best three grades on the hour exams and the combined quiz score will be used to determine your final grade. There will be no makeups for quizzes or hour exams. You make take each hour exam either Thursday evening, 7:10-8:00 PM or Friday during class. The Honor Code requires that students taking the Thursday exam not discuss the exam with their classmates until the end of the Friday exam.