Your are required to abide by the following quiz and exam regulations:
You may use your notes, textbook, online lectures, lecture slides, and any calculator or calculation software. A collection of formulas and constants and the periodic table are available in the information sheet here.
Your work must be yours and yours alone. This means you may not use any resources other than those listed above. To do so is academic misconduct. The shift to online assessment required by to COVID-19 pandemic means that if you decide to cheat, no one will prevent you. While doing your work, if you consult anyone, use the Internet, chat, messaging, video calls, Chegg, and similar resources, you are cheating; please do not do so.
It is the responsibility of every student to be aware of the contents of the Boston University Academic Conduct Code and to abide by its provisions. If we find that that you have cheated, we will treat it with zero tolerance. The consequences of cheating are at a minimum that the score for work on which cheating occurs counts as 0 and all instances of misconduct will be reported to the Dean’s office.
There are five quizzes and a final exam.
Quizzes and the final exam will be graded through GradeScope. In days leading up to the first quiz you will get an email from GradeScope. It will have you set a password so that you can access the quizzes that have been graded by the course staff.
To facilitate Gradescope grading, please show your work for each question in the space provided in the question. You may do this in one of two ways: (1) download this document, write your work on it, and then scan the completed document as a PDF, or (2) do your work directly on the PDF of this document using a tablet device. When you have finished, submit your PDF to Gradescope following the instructions here. All work must be shown to receive credit.
Each quiz will be available for download from Gradescope at 7:50 AM GMT-4 on the day of the quiz. Your completed quiz must be submitted to Gradescope no later than 9:25 AM GMT-4. Submissions after that time will not be accepted.
Quiz 1, Thursday, September 17, 8-9:15 AM (GMT-4). The quiz is based on all of the course material (lab, lecture, textbook, assigned problems, and discussion) from Oxtoby et al., chapters 1 and 2.
Quiz 2, Thursday, October 1, 8-9:15 AM (GMT-4). The quiz is based on all of the course material (lab, lecture, textbook, assigned problems, and discussion) from Oxtoby et al., chapter 3. Please note that while the quiz focuses on the preceding, it assumes material covered earlier.
Quiz 3, Thursday, October 22, 8-9:15 AM (GMT-4). The quiz is based on all of the course material (lab, lecture, textbook, assigned problems, and discussion) from Oxtoby et al., sections 1-6 (only) of chapter 9, including problems 9.49 and 9.51. Please note that while the quiz focuses on the preceding, it assumes material covered earlier.
Quiz 4, Thursday, November 12, 8-9:15 AM (GMT-5). The quiz is based on all of the course material (lab, lecture, textbook, assigned problems, and discussion) from Oxtoby et al., chapters 10, 11, and sections 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, and 12.6.1 of chapter 12. Please note that while the quiz focuses on the preceding, it assumes material covered earlier.
Quiz 5, Thursday, December 3, 8-9:15 AM (GMT-5). The quiz is based on all of the course material (lab, lecture, textbook, assigned problems, and discussion) from Oxtoby et al., sections 12.6.2 and 12.6.3 (but not 12.7) of chapter 12, and sections 13.1--13.7 of chapter 13. Please note that while the quiz focuses on the preceding, it assumes material covered earlier.
Final exam, Friday, December 18, 9-11 AM (GMT-5). The final exam is based everything covered on the previous quizzes, and chapter 14 and chapter 15 (sections 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6). (You are not responsible for chapters 16 and 17.)
The exam will be available for download from the Gradescope tab on the CH131 Fall 2020 Blackboard at 8:55 AM EST (Eastern Standard Time, GMT-5) Friday, December 18. The PDF of the scan of your completed exam must be submitted to Gradescope no later than 11:00 AM EST. Submissions after that time will not be accepted.
Submission of images or of anything other than a properly paginated PDF will not be graded. Work scanned on anything other than the quiz PDF will not be accepted. The only exception is if you have arranged with me to receive beforehand a blank exam template because you are unable to print the quiz in a timely manner. Request for this template must be received no later then 5 PM (GMT-5) Tuesday, December 15.
The overall score so far is not a running total of the points earned in the course. Rather, it is an estimate of what your final score, out of 1000 points, would be if you continued to perform at the same level. This means that if you have received perfect scores on all work so far, your overall score so far would be 1000, and if you have received 50% scores on all work so far, your overall score so far would be 500.
Here is the distribution of overall course scores so far, on a 1000-point scale. These scores are based on participation in discussion and lecture (adjusted to 100% for scores above 84%) , labs 2–9 (lowest lab score dropped), and quizzes 1–5 (lowest quiz score dropped). Your overall score so far is available on Blackboard.
Overall score so far: The average overall score so far, after quiz 5, is 780/1000 = 78.0% (high B-); the high score was 974/1000 = 97.4%; 180 overall scores are shown. Last updated Thursday, December 3, 2020 17:11:15.
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