Announcements

1. Quiz 3 is noon Monday, June 24. Quiz 3 will cover the Monday and Tuesday, week 2 assignments on buffers and titrations. The quiz will not cover the Thursday, week 2 assignment on entropy. Text homework from the two assignments covered on the quiz will be checked in your noon class on June 24.

Quiz 4 is noon Wednesday, June 26. It will cover the Thursday week 2 assignment along with the Monday and Tuesday week 3 assignments. Text homework from these three assignments will be checked during the quiz.

2. Lecture for the week of June 17-20 has been moved to 2233 Everitt Lab.

3. My name is Tom Hummel (tjhummel) and I am the course director of Chem 104 this summer.  I lecture at 1 pm Monday - Thursday in 100 Noyes Lab. At noon Monday-Thursday, you have discussion section. The TA for the discussion section is Patricia Madel (pmadel2) and the room is 2012 Chem Annex.

4. The required texts for the course are the 3rd ed Chemistry: An Atoms First Approach by Zumdahls and Decoste along with the Student Solutions Manual that accompanies the 3rd ed text.  For the Atoms first text and Solutions Guide,  I recommend you purchase the electronic version of the text which gives you the text and the Solutions Manual but also gives you the option to rent a hard copy of the text for shipping and handling. Where you purchase the materials is up to you. The publishing company of the text (Cengage) has two different electronic versions you can purchase. Either is fine. They are:

a. Cengage Unlimited eTextbooks for $79.99. This package includes a 4 month subscription to the text (ISBN-9780357363454) and to the solutions manual (ISBN-9780357363591) with an option to rent a hard copy of the text for the price of shipping and handling. If none of your other U of I classes require Cengage texts, then this is your best option.

b. Cengage Unlimited for $129.99. This package includes all of the items mentioned in the previous plan plus you can get the various Cengage platforms for online homework. Our Chem 104 course will not use any Cengage homework platforms. However, if you are required to purchase a Cengage homework platform for another course (perhaps Calculus on campus), then this option is your best choice. All of your etextbooks are included in this package for all U of I courses requiring Cengage textbooks plus you have access to the Cengage homework platforms. Search for ISBNs listed above in item A when searching for your ebooks on your Cengage account.

To make your purchase of the required etexts, go to Cengage.com

5. We will not use Lon Capa this summer. All homework in the course is assigned from the text. We will also not use Canvas for our summer course. The only online source is this website.

6. If you are new to the course, please read the Course Policy handout (link on the right). There is also a link to the assignments on the right. To catch-up, do the assigned reading and text homework problems for the classes you missed. In general, if you can do and understand the assigned text homework problems, then you are in good shape.