Welcome to Chem 1220 - Summer Semester 2021

[Zellmer, Robert]

Hello.  I am Dr. Zellmer.  I am teaching Chem 1220 Summer Semester.
I apologize if you are getting this and you are not signed up for Chem 1220.
I got the current roster with your e-mails from the registrar (SIS, Buckeyelink).
In a follow-up e-mails I'll discuss recitations, quizzes and various other
things.

Carmen will be activated by June 4.  I'll send more on that, the textbook,
on-line homework system in subsequent e-mails.  I have personal class
webpages which are available now.  I'm still working on parts of them.

You will be getting a lot of e-mail from me throughout the semester.  It
is meant to inform and help you about the course and lab.  You can
read it or not but if you miss something because you haven't it's your
responsibility.  You may not need something in an e-mail immediately when
you get the e-mail but you should save it.  There's also links on my
Chem1220 pages (not Carmen) for every e-mail I will send.

If you are on a wait list I'm sending this info to you as well so you know
it if and when you get in the course.  You can get to all the material on
my web pages but you won't have access to Carmen.  If you are still on
the wait list when we start next week I encourage you to come to lecture.
However, to do this you'll need to let me know so I can send you the link to
the Zoom lectures.


The semester starts on Tuesday, 6/8/21.  You will have lab and recitation.
This recitation does not count toward your final grade.  However, you should
attend.  Your TA will be covering various aspects of the course and will
review material from 1210.  You will also practice submitting the notes taken
during recitation.

I will be holding a voluntary session starting at 3:15 PM on June 8.  I will go
over how to study and learn and the best approach this course (especially
during summer semester), answer questions may still have, perhaps review
some things from Chem 1210 which the TAs may not have had a chance to
cover.

There's a lot of special things going on due to COVID-19, still.

Our lectures will be held remotely via Zoom.  The links are already set up in
Carmen.  You should see them in your schedule on Carmen.  There's a
link on our Carmen course page and there's a Zoom link in the menu. The
links for lecture and office hours are the same for the whole semester.

There are two recitation section which are in-person recitations and two
which are online.  As much as possible, the TAs will be doing things in the
same way for all recitation sections.  Your TAs should be sending you e-mail
about your recitations.  They will take attendance during recitations and you
will submit notes taken during recitation at the end of the period.  There's
more details in the syllabus and I will send a follow-up e-mail about recitations
and quizzes.

For lab, the plan right now is for three of the labs to be in person.  The rest
will be done digitally.  The lab supervisor will be sending e-mails with details
about the labs.  See the lab syllabus on Carmen and my webpage for details.

The class Carmen pages will be activated June 4 so you can start checking
on material which will be due the first week of classes. There are mandatory
quizzes on Carmen which are due the first week.

You will access MasteringChemistry and the eText through the
MyLab and Mastering link in the menu for the course.  You get access
through CarmenBooks.  There are already some things set up for the first
week.  For the first week there's only one thing for credit, "Chapter 11 Review"
(due by 11:59 PM Fri, 6/10).  The other things are an Introduction to Mastering",
"Intro do DSM modules", "Chemistry Primer" and "DSM for Key Math Skills".
They are not for credit and if you used MC previously you may not need to
do the "Intro" sets.  More about the online homework in follow-up e-mails.

I have my own webpages, separate from Carmen.  There's a lot of
information there.  You should investigate what's there.

The links to my homepage and the class link (which can be found at
my homepage) are,

https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/zellmer.1/

Chemistry 1220 - Sp2<https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/zellmer.1/chem1220/chem1220.htm>1

There you will find the lecture and lab syllabi.  There's also an audio/visual
version of the syllabus.   It's not quite ready yet.  When it is I will send an
e-mail.  I highly suggest you watch this. It is rather long but I explain things
in detail.

There's also a "little" note to let you know a few things about 1220.
Read the WHOLE message at the link listed below and any to follow:

https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/zellmer.1/chem1220/chem1220_intro.txt

This will make things easier for you when we start on Tue, 6/8/21.
If you notice a mistake or something that looks "strange" (reference to
quarters, incorrect dates, etc.) let me know.

You can find further details at the link above.

Then go to the "Notes" link.  There you will find a copy of the notes
(overheads) I will be using in lecture.  I highly suggest you print them
and bring them with you (print them with two pages to a single physical
page to save paper).  Technically, we start with chapter 13 but I will
cover a few things you need from ch 11 first.  Just print Ch 13 for
now since I may be making some minor changes to some of the later
chapters.  You will also see what sections from 1210 you should review.
Do that now before we start rather than starting chapter 13.  Pay
particular attention to ch 11 (attractive forces, properties of liquids,
vapor pressure, heat of vaporization, boiling point - things needed for
exp 14 and ch 13) and ch 12 (which is the material you need to know
concerning solids and taken from ch 11 of the 11th edition of the
textbook).  There's three links from the 12th ed. dealing with solids.
You probably won't need to know much about unit cells and related
calculations.

There's also a link to a table about the types of solids, their attractive
forces and their properties (which depend on their AF).  It is very
important to understand this material since we will be talking about
solubility of solids, which depends on AF.  The link is,

Types of Solids and Their Properties<https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/zellmer.1/chem1220/notes/Table_13-10_solids_no_lines.pdf>


There are prerecorded lecture videos for the whole semester posted on
Carmen. I would prefer you watch these before our Zoom lecture.  I will then
hold Zoom lectures during our normal lecture time.  My hope is if you've
watched the prerecorded videos I won't have to repeat everything during
the Zoom lectures, at least not in their entirety, but instead go over the most
important and difficult concepts and allow you to ask more questions.  We'll
see how this works.  If it looks to me like this isn't working I may skip the
prerecorded videos and just go to Zoom lectures.  In any case the Zoom
lectures will be recorded and posted.  Both sets of these videos will be posted
in the "Lecture" module in Carmen.

I have pre-recorded videos for chapters 11 and 12 up already for you to
listen to in order to review the material you need from those chapters for
1220.  I will leave it up to you to do this before the first lecture this coming
Mon.

The Zoom lectures are set up so your name will show during the lecture.  This
is the university default.  This will be the same for recitation periods in which the
TA will be present in Zoom.  This is to aid in taking attendance.

I won't lie to you.   This class will be tough.  This class is going to move
pretty quickly and the material is generally more difficult than the material
you covered in Chem 1210.  You saw most of the 1210 material in high
school.  Most of you will not have seen the material in 1220 in high school,
especially at the level at which we cover it.  During a normal 14-week semester
you should plan on spending 12-15 hours a week outside of class just on
lecture material and homework and another 3-4 or so on lab work (preparation,
reports, etc.).  Since Summer Session moves twice as fast, 14 weeks in an
8 week span, you need to double the hours I've just listed.  That means about
36 hours per week working on lecture material and lab material. If you miss
a single lecture that's like missing ~ 70% of a normal week's worth of lecture.

There may be times due to the nature of the book material and lab material
it might take more or less time than this.  Just plan on the maximum time.
If you need less time it doesn't mess up your plan but if you wind up needing
more then you have to change your plans and make a new schedule.  Just
try to stay on top of things and not fall behind (worse thing you could do).

I've been teaching most of this material for about 29 years.  I know very
well what things you need from this course for courses down the road and
exams you may some day take to get into graduate or professional school.

Okay, that's it for this e-mail.  Many more will follow later and throughout
the semester.  I will work very hard for you and I expect the same from you.

Dr. Zellmer


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