Text Book: "Chemistry", Sixth Edition" by Zumdahl & Zumdahl (Houghten-Mifflin 2003). The text is most useful if you read each topic before the lecture

Supplementary Course Materials: Saftey Glasses are required to work in the Laboratory. They may be purchased at the University Bookstore. The Chemistry Computer Lab in RI-365 is available for student use. Twelve PC's are available with a wide variety of software specialized for use by chemists, including Spartan, Gaussian, HyperChem, ChemSite, JUMP, ChemDraw, and many others.

Course Requirements:

Four exams worth 60%

A Comprehensive Final Examination worth 15%

Laboratory assignments worth 25%

Various graded homework assignments and/or quizes may be added

Course Content:

1. Liquids and Solids (Chapter 10)
2. Properties of Solutions (Chapter 11)
3. Chemical Kinetics (Chapter 12)
4. Chemical Equilibria (Chapter 13)
5. Acid/Base Chemistry (Chapter 14)
6. Applications of Aqueous Equilibria (Chapter 15)
7. Spontaneity, Entropy and Free Energy (Chapter 16)
8. Electrochemistry (Chapter 17)
9. The Nucleus: A Chemist's View (Chapter 18)

A more detailed course outline can be found at http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~kasner/

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