Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 10:00 am - 10:50 am, in room 352 of the Chemistry Building.
Wednesdays 11 am - 2 pm, at Room 274 in the Chemistry Building. You may see me at any time; you might want to check ahead that I will be in.
My e-mail is marshall@unt.edu and phone is (940) 565-2294.
The information on this page is also available online at http://www.chem.unt.edu/~marshall/c3520.htm.
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My lectures are protected by state common law and federal copyright law. They are my own original expression. Whereas you are authorized to take notes in class thereby creating a derivative work from my lecture, the authorization extends only to making one set of notes for your own personal use and no other use. You are not authorized to record my lectures, to provide your notes to anyone else or to make any commercial use of them without express prior permission from me in writing.
CHEM 3510 (one of whose prerequisites is two semesters of calculus)
Basic scientific calculators that can do ln(x), exp(x), sin(x) and cos(x) are recommended. Sophisticated programmable, graphing and so on calculators are not allowed, with the exception of the TI-84 model (because it is required in calculus). Only this model of graphing calculator is permitted, and you must show that the RAM is erased before the start of each exam. Again, a TI-84 is not required and I actually recommend a ~$15 scientific calculator. Tablets or laptop computers, cell phones, head phones and earbuds are forbidden in exams. Wide-brimmed hats may not be worn.
There will be three 50-minute semester exams plus a 2-hour comprehensive final exam which will count as two semester exams.
| Date | Max. Points |
| Friday, February 15 | 100 |
| Monday, March 18 | 100 |
| Friday, April 12 | 100 |
| Saturday, May 4 (8 am) (Final Exam) | 200 |
Class attendance is not formally required but highly recommended - if you miss classes you may not do well in the exams. If you miss an exam you score zero for that exam. Any queries about grading need to be made within a week of receiving back an exam.
Your grade will be based strictly on your examination performance. There will be no make-up exams. I will however drop your lowest 100 points (i.e. I drop the lowest exam if it is before May or grade the final out of 100 if the final is the lowest score) when I calculate your semester average, based on your best 400 points.
If your semester average is at least 90% your final grade will be A.
If your semester average is 80-89% your final grade will be B.
If your semester average is 70-79% your final grade will be C.
If your semester average is 60-69% your final grade will be D.
If your semester average is below 60% your final grade will be F.
I reserve the right to give a higher grade than allowed by the above scheme.
Homework problems will not be collected nor graded. However, working the problems is strongly encouraged. This is how you will gain skill at quantitative problems. It is important that you keep up with the homework. Leaving it until the day or two before an exam is not a strategy for success. Expect to spend at least several hours on homework each week.
There are optional recitations scheduled for Wednesdays at 2:00-2:50 pm in Life Sciences Building room A304 where we will discuss examples from the homework and elsewhere, and any problems you raise over the class material, homework problems and so on.
You can learn a little more about me and my research at my website www.chem.unt.edu/~marshall, and we can arrange lab tours as well.
There are many equations in this course, but the emphasis is strongly NOT on memorizing a bunch of formulae. I hope students will grasp the scientific principles which, together with a few key equations, will let you solve all kinds of problems. In particular, new problems which you haven't seen before, just like in real life. If you can do this, you truly understand the material, and that is my goal for everyone.
A second goal is for you to see how the general principles we develop help us to understand all kinds of phenomena, some well outside chemistry.
Working the homework is really crucial. It is how you put into practice the principles from the classes, plus it is training for the exams. You can check yourself, or perhaps solve a difficulty, by referring to the Solutions Manual. If there is anything that doesn't make sense after that, please raise it at recitation or office hours.
The classes more or less track along with the arrangement in the textbook. However, please note that in some chapters I have reordered the material into what I think is a clearer way, and often I have skipped some of the less critical discussion. The syllabus is different from previous years so don't worry if what you are learning now doesn't match with the old exams I put on the web. I promise the semester exams will not include anything you do not see in the course; anything we cover in class I consider to be fair game!
There are many resources available to help you, including: me, study groups you set up, the Chemistry Resource Center, other books and the internet.
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The first class will be on Monday, January 14, 2019 and the last class will be on Wednesday, May 1, 2019.
There will be no classes over Spring Break, March 11-15, 2019.
Monday, April 1, 2019 is the last day to drop this course.
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