CHEM 101 Chemistry for Engineers

Syllabus

2023 - 2024 Fall Semester

Credit Structure: (3-2)4

Course Instructor:
Prof. Hakan Usta
AGU Department of Nanotechnology Engineering
Office: A-213
e-mail: hakan.usta@agu.edu.tr

Teaching Assistants (TAs)

LABS: RECITATIONS:
Ahmet Yazıcı, ahmet.yazici@agu.edu.tr Derya Dinçyürek, PhD, derya.dincyurek@agu.edu.tr
Abdullah Keskin, abdullah.keskin@agu.edu.tr

Lecture hours/Classroom:

Section 1: Lecture hours: Monday 16:00-18:45 (B207), Recitation hours: Thursday 08:00-09:45 (B234)
Section 2: Lecture hours: Tuesday 14:00-16:45 (B207), Recitation hours: Friday 08:00-09:45 (B234)
Section 3: Lecture hours: Wednesday 16:00-18:45 (B207), Recitation hours: Tuesday 08:00-09:45 (B234)

 Students need to take recitations and labs in their own sections.

 Quizzes can only be taken in a student’s own section during the recitation hours. Students will get zero
points from missed quizzes.
 Recitation questions and quizzes will be based on the chapter finished in the previous week.
 Lab hours: On the weeks indicated in syllabus, you will have a laboratory session in Chemistry student
lab (location: CHEMLAB). Wait for the announcements from the TA.
 The breaks between lectures will be held as office hours whenever students have questions. Separate
office hours could also be arranged via email outside the class hours.

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Syllabus*: (Based on the course textbook: “Chemistry: The Central Science”, 14th Edition in SI Units,
©Pearson Education Limited 2018)

First day of
Week Chapter Notes
week

Preliminary Chapters 1 – 4 Self study

Sample Exercises 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.6, 6.7,
6.9, Sample Integrative Exercise (Page 290),
Electronic Structure of Atoms (Chp. 6) A Closer Look: Thought Experiments and
1 Oct 2, 2023
Schrödinger’s Cat (Page 273)
Chemistry and Life: Nuclear Spin and
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Page 281)
Sample Exercises 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6,
Periodic Properties of the Elements
2 Oct 9, 2023 7.7, 7.10, Chemistry Put to Work: Ionic Size
(Chp. 7)
and Lithium-Ion Batteries (Page 311)
Sample Exercises 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6,
8.7, 8.8, 8.9, Sample Integrative Exercise
(Page 371), A Closer Look: Calculation of
Basic Concepts of Chemical Bonding Lattice Energies: The Born-Haber Cycle
3 Oct 16, 2023
(Chp. 8) (Page 349)
A Closer Look: Oxidation Numbers, Formal
Charges, and Actual Partial Charges (Page
363)
Sample Exercises 9.1, 9.3, 9.4, Chemistry
and Life: The Chemistry of Vision (Page
Molecular Geometry and Bonding
4 Oct 23, 2023 411)
Theories (Chp. 9)
Lab 1 (No recitation this week, instead there
is a lab!)
Sample Exercises 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.7,
5 Oct 30, 2023 Gases (Chp. 10) 10.10, Chemistry Put to Work: Gas
Seperations (Page 462)
Discussions on Figures 11.5, 11.6, 11.7,
11.8, 11.9, 11.11, 11.14, 11.18, 11.19, 11.22,
Sample Exercises 11.1, 11.2, 11.5, Section
Liquids and Intermolecular Forces 11.7: Liquid Crystals (pages 503-505)
6 Nov 6, 2023
(Chp. 11)
Midterm Exam
Saturday,
November 11th, 2023, at 12:00 pm (noon)
Sample Exercises 13.1, 13.3, 13.4, 13.8,
Chemistry and Life: Fat Soluble and Water
7 Nov 13, 2023 Properties of Solutions (Chp. 13) Soluble Vitamins (Page 577)
Chemistry and Life: Blood Gases and Deep-
Sea Diving (Page 581)
8 Nov 20, 2023 Semester Break No Lecture/recitations
9 Nov 27, 2023 Week of Active Learning No recitations
Sample Exercises 14.3, 14.4, 14.6, 14.7,
14.8, 14.10, Sample Integrative Exercise
(Page 651), Chemistry and Life: Nitrogen
Fixation and Nitrogenase (Page 650)
Chemistry Put to Work: Catalytic
10 Dec 4, 2023 Chemical Kinetics (Chp. 14)
Converters (Page 648)
Chemistry Put to Work: Methyl Bromide in
the Atmosphere (Page 630)
Lab 2 (No recitation this week, instead there
is a lab!)
Sample Exercises 15.1, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5,
15.8, 15.9, 15.10, 15.11, Chemistry Put to
Chemical Equilibrium (Chp. 15)
11 Dec 11, 2023 Work: The Haber Process (Page 672)
Controlling Nitric Oxide Emissions (Page
698)
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 Sample Exercises 16.1, 16.2, 16.4, 16.5,
Acid-Base Equilibrium (Chp. 16) 16.10, 16.11, 16.14, 16.15, 16.16, 16.17,
12 Dec 18, 2023
16.18, Chemistry Put to Work: Amines and
Amine Hydrochlorides (Page 739)
Sample Exercises 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11,
5.12, 5.13, 5.14, Chemistry Put to Work:
13 Dec 25, 2023 Thermochemistry (Chp. 5)
The Scientific and Political Challenges of
Biofuels (Page 242)
Lab 3 (No recitation this week, instead there
14 Jan 1, 2024 Chemical Thermodynamics (Chp. 19)
is a lab!)
15 Jan 8, 2024 Electrochemistry (Chp. 20)
Final Exam FINAL EXAM
Between Jan 15 – 24, 2024
Week (date to be announced later)

* The syllabus will be updated in case of unexpected conditions.

Chapters 1 – 4 covers the basic chemistry knowledge and they are necessary to understand the topics to be discussed in this
lecture. We will not cover these chapters in our classes and students are expected to know those from their previous education.
Please review chapters 1 – 4 before the first lecture and make sure you know all the concepts covered in there.

Grading Policy:

Midterm Exam 30%

Quizzes & Lab reports 20%
In-Class Participation 10%
Final Exam 40%
TOTAL 100%

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Course Catalogue Description:
Chemistry for Engineers is intended for engineering majors as an introduction to several key concepts of
chemistry. Topics included in this course are atomic and electronic structure, chemical bonding, molecular
structure and bonding theories, properties of liquids, solids and solutions, chemical equilibrium, kinetics,
thermodynamics, and organic compounds.
Course Objectives:
Goal of this course is to provide students necessary skills for analyzing the chemical phenomena in the nature.
 Provide students basic knowledge about the structure of matter, atoms, molecules, compounds, solids,
liquids, and gases.
 Constructing conceptual understanding of solutions, chemical equilibrium, kinetics, thermodynamics,
metal complexes, organic compounds and electrochemistry.
 Teach students how to predict the outcome of several chemical reactions involving equilibrium status,
gases, acids and bases, and oxidation and reductions.
Course Text Book:
“Chemistry: The Central Science”. Brown, LeMay, Bursten, Murphy, Woodward, Stoltzfus. 14th Edition ın
SI units. Pearson. ISBN 13: 978-1-292-22122-9. (Available at AGU Library. You may use the 13rd edition
as well.)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

 In lecture hours, instructors will cover that week’s topics as indicated in the syllabus and solve only a
limited number of questions about them. Most of the problem-solving exercises will take place in the
recitation hours (in the following week). Therefore, it is very important for students to review new
topics before they attend the recitations. This way, they will have a chance to extensively discuss any
matter they didn’t understand about each week’s topics.

 To be successful in the exams and quizzes, students should study contents of each chapter in the course
book. There are many sample questions in this book and solving those questions is very important in
order to get higher scores in the exams/quizzes. Reviewing only the lecture slides will not guarantee a
high score in this course.

 Cheating: In the case of cheating, you will be graded NA and disciplinary action will be pursued.

 Make-up exams are only possible in the case of students’ own medical condition to be approved by a
doctor’s report. There are no make-ups for quizzes but students will be held exempt in case of doctor’s
report.

Exams and Quizzes:

There will be in-class exams and quizzes in this course. Answers to essay questions in the exams and quizzes
will be checked for plagiarism***. Also, students are not allowed to copy and paste any text from online
resources or from other students during online exams. If such copy/pasted text is detected in the exams/reports,
points of that question/all questions will be graded zero.

In the case of online exams, your answers for essay questions must be limited with the lecture contents. Do
not write excessive information (things beyond what we cover in the lectures) as this will not provide extra
points and may even cause loss of points in many cases.

*** Plagiarism is the use of the creations, ideas or words of someone else without formally acknowledging
the author or source through appropriate use of quotation marks, references, and the like. Plagiarizing is
stealing someone's work and presenting it as one's own original work or thought.

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Laboratory Work-Recitations:

There will be a total of 3 laboratory sessions for this course. The timing of laboratory weeks will be announced
promptly and you should study the lab manuals to be shared on Canvas before coming to the labs because you
will perform the experiments according to these manuals. Also, you will prepare a lab report about your
experiments to be covered in these sessions and hand it to your TA (assistant) the following week.

Those weeks without laboratory sessions, there will be recitations to review the previous topics covered in the
previous week. Your TA will be with you during recitation hours. TA’s may briefly mention about each week’s
topics but they will mostly solve example questions. Feel free to discuss with your TA anything you didn’t
understand in lecture classes. There will also be a quiz about each week’s topics in recitation sessions. If you
miss quizzes, you will be graded zero as there will not be make-ups for quizzes.

In-Class Activites:
The course content in CHEM 101 will be delivered in an interactive format in which students are expected to
be a key part of it. Therefore, each student is expected to be active during lecture hours and is expected to
answer/discuss the instructor’s questions and points. Each student is also expected to contribute to in-class
team activities whenever assigned by the instructor.

Attendance:
Students need to attend at least 70% of all classes (lectures and recitations/labs).

Computer Usage:

The usage of the Canvas system and e-mail for communication is necessary. You will need to have an AGU
e-mail address (with the extension of “@agu.edu.tr”). You should check your e-mails and course’s canvas
page on a daily basis in order to be aware of any course related announcements. The responsibility to check
the announcements on canvas and in their e-mail inboxes is on the user.

Office Hours:

The breaks between class hours will be used as the office hours. If a student has a specific question to the
instructor, they can ask during these breaks. Also, office hours could be arranged via email.

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