The detailed schedule at

http://quantum.bu.edu/courses/ch101/ALEKS/schedule.pdf

tells what is covered each week, in ACS Chemistry and Dill/3e. The ALEKS milestones at

http://quantum.bu.edu/courses/ch101/aleks.html#grading

are coordinated with this schedule and these two texts. The broad order of topics for the course is below, as are instructions on how to carry out the assignments, and links to suggested solutions to end-of-chapter problems.

Lecture topics

We will cover the follwing five areas this semester.

  1. (7 MWF lectures, begining on Wednesday, September 2)
    Water: A Natural Wonder: ACS Chemistry chapter 1 and the following pages of Notes/3e:
    • pages 1–10 of chapter 1 (building blocks of matter)
    • pages 101–110 of chapter 4 (molecular models, Lewis structures, and polarity
    • all of appendix 1, Significant figures in numerical calculations
    • all of appendix 2, Working with logarithms
  2. (8 MWF lectures, begining on Monday, September 21)
    Aqueous solutions and solubility: ACS Chemistry chapter 2 and the following pages of Notes/3e:
    • pages 6–18 of chapter 1 (concentration, moles, and molarity)
    • pages 207–213 of chapter 8 (solubility)
    • pages 177–181 of chapter 7 (acids and bases in aqueous solution)
  3. (4 MWF lectures, begining on Friday, October 9)
    Origin of atoms: ACS Chemistry chapter 3 and the following pages of Notes/3e:
    • pages 19–13 of chapter 2 (absorption and emission spectra)
    • pages 48–51 of chapter 2 (energy-matter relation)
    • all of chapter 13, Origin of atoms
    • pages 306–308 of chapter 12 (half-life calculations)
  4. (11 MWF lectures, begining on Monday, October 19)
    Structure of atoms: ACS Chemistry chapter 4 and the following pages of Notes/3e:
    • pages 19–47 of chapter 2, Quantum aspects of light and matter
    • all of chapter 3.1, Atomic wavefunction family album
    • pages 73–78 of chapter 3.2, Energies of electron on atoms
    • all of chapter 3.3, Why atoms don't collapse
  5. (10 MWF lectures, begining on Friday, November 13)
    Structure of molecules: ACS Chemistry chapter 5 and the following pages of Notes/3e:
    • pages 111–116 of chapter 4 (hybrid atomic orbitals)
    • pages 117–123 of chapter 4 (bonding and antibonding molecular orbitals)
    • pages 124–129 of chapter 4 (recipe for π bonds in polyatomic molecules

How to carry out assignments

Before each lecture meeting, you should work in detail through the lecture topics and do the problems pertaining to them, in ACS Chemistry and in Notes/3e.

Please read the last paragrapph again! If you do as it says, you will greatly enhance what you learn in lectures and so speed your progress toward mastery.

Suggested solutions to all problems will be provided below.  You can also raise questions about any uncertainties in e-mail messages, in discussion sections, and in lecture.

Suggested solutions to end-of-chapter problems