Problem sets
CH101 General Chemistry
Fall 2005

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Click on a date below to go to the assignment for that date.

• Week of December 5–12
• Week of November 28–December 2
• Week of November 14–18
• Week of November 7–10
• Week of October 31–November 4
• Week of October 24–28
• Week of October 17–21
• Week of October 3–7
• Week of September 26–30
• Week of September 19–23
• Week of September 12–16
• Week of September 6–9

Each Monday-Wednesday-Friday class meeting will cover approximately two sections of the text; each Tuesday-Thursday class meeting will cover approximately three sections of the text. You should read the textbook sections and do the problems pertaining to those sections, found at the end of the chapter, before the lecture meeting on those sections.

The answers to the numerical problems are given in Appendix A in the textbook.  You can also "grade" your own and those of your friends in the class from the information in the textbook.  You can also raise questions about any uncertainties in e-mail messages, in discussion sections, in lecture, and at office hours.

Beginning the second week of class, there will be a brief quiz in discussion on the readings and problems of that week.

September 6–9

Study the supplements on significant figures in numerical calculations and on working with logarithms.

Read sections 1.1–1.5 of the text and do the problems at the end of the chapter for those sections. Also work through the activities on the textbook web site for those sections.

Suggested solutions to Chapter 1 problems are here: 865 KB / 45 pages.

September 12–16

Read sections 1.6–1.11 of the text and do the problems at the end of the chapter for those sections. Also work through the activities on the textbook web site for those sections.

September 19–23

Read sections 1.12–1.14 of the text and do the problems at the end of the chapter for those sections. Also work through the activities on the textbook web site for those sections.

September 26–30

Read sections 2.1–2.7 of the text and do the problems at the end of the chapter for those sections. Also work through the activities on the textbook web site for those sections.

Suggested solutions to Chapter 2 problems are here: 1.09 MB / 64 pages.

October 3–7

Read sections 2.8–2.14 of the text and do the problems at the end of the chapter for those sections. Also work through the activities on the textbook web site for those sections.

October 17–21

Read sections 3.1–3.7 of the text and do the problems at the end of the chapter for those sections. Also work through the activities on the textbook web site for those sections.

Suggested solutions to Chapter 3 problems are here: 349 KB / 22 pages.

October 24–28

Read sections 3.8–3.9 and 4.1-4.6 of the text and do the problems at the end of the chapter for those sections. Also work through the activities on the textbook web site for those sections.

Suggested solutions to Chapter 4 problems are here: 895 KB / 31 pages.

October 31–November 4

Read sections 4.7-4.12 of the text and do the problems at the end of the chapter for those sections. Also work through the activities on the textbook web site for those sections.

November 7–10

We have prepared three sets of notes on what we are discussing in chapter 4 and in the computer based explorations you are doing over the next weeks.

1. This first is Quantum aspects of light and matter, updated 6/17/2005, PDF 282 KB / 32 pages. This give details of wave, of the quantum nature of light, of the quantum nature of atoms, and of the way light interacts with matter.

2. The second is Why atoms don't collapse, updated 11/19/2004, PDF 60 KB / 5 pages. This gives further details of the material in the text, especially how the orbital picture of atoms is used to account for their stability. You are required to answer the the fifteen problems in these notes.

3. The third is Atomic wavefunction family album, updated 6/17/2005, PDF 110 KB / 5 pages. This gives further details on orbitals in atoms. Your are required to answer all of the questions at the end of these notes, to help you interpret the pictures in the album.

November 14–18

Study and answer the questions in the notes Energies of electrons in atoms, updated 6/17/2005, PDF 71 KB / 8 pages. Study section 4.13 of the text.

Study sections 5.1-5.4 of the text. Suggested solutions to Chapter 5 problems are here: 895 KB / 34 pages.

November 28–December 2

Study up through sections 5.6 of the text and do all related problems and Web Companion exercises. Suggested solutions to Chapter 5 problems are here: 895 KB / 34 pages.

December 5–December 12

Study up through sections 5.13 of the text and do all related problems and Web Companion exercises. Suggested solutions to Chapter 5 problems are here: 895 KB / 34 pages.

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