Chem 1303.001   Fall 2009

Professor Michael Lattman Room 310 Fondren Science Telephone: 214-768-2467 email: mlattman@smu.edu

Office Hours Mon 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Tues 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Help Session Tues 5:00 - 6:00 pm Room 133

 

 

General Information and Syllabus  (html format)

 

Learning Objectives

 

Calendar (pdf format) with dates of exams, quizzes, help sessions, etc.

 

Homework assignments (including answers to assigned problems not found in the text) are found at:

http://faculty.smu.edu/pwisian/Chem1303/Homework.htm

 

 

Certain links below will become active as needed.

 

Copies of old exams

The following links are to copies of my Chem 1303 lecture exams from a previous semester.
exam1
exam2
exam3

Current Seating Chart for tests and quizzes (pdf format  - for LEGAL SIZE paper) can be downloaded here.

 

Naming Inorganic Compounds

Rules (pdf format) for naming inorganic compounds (including a table of polyatomic ions) can be downloaded here.

VSEPR  rules

Steps for predicting correct geometries by using the VSEPR model can be downloaded here.

 

How to Draw Lewis Structures 

Guidelines for drawing correct Lewis Structures can be downloaded here.

 

Assigning oxidation numbers

Rules (pdf format) for assigning oxidation numbers can be downloaded here.

 

Balancing Redox reactions

Rules (pdf format) for balancing redox reactions can be downloaded here.

 

The videos for Hybridization and Sigma and Pi Bonds can be found at the McGraw-Hill website for the Chang text.  Click here to go directly to the website.

 

A general MO diagram for homonuclear diatomic molecules  can be downloaded here. 

 

 

 

 

 

Quiz and Exam keys can be downloaded in pdf format. The links below will become active when each quiz and exam key becomes available.

 

Quiz 1	Exam 1
Quiz 2	Exam 2
Quiz 3	Exam 3
Quiz 4
Quiz 5
Quiz 6
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Quiz 8
Quiz 9
Quiz 10