Final Exam: Wednesday, December 16th, 3:30-5:30 PM, Keyes 105 (review session: Tuesday, 1 PM, Keyes 105)
The final exam is a standardized exam written by the American Chemical Society. It is a 2-hour exam consisting of 70 multiple choice questions. The exam will cover all of the course material, and will also have laboratory-based questions. Study guides for the exam are available on reserve in the Science Library. Items to bring to the exam: a pencil and an optional calculator (all memory must be cleared prior to the test).
Important Exam Info: Guessing is not penalized on the final exam, so you should answer every question even if you have to guess!
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Final Exam Topics
Exam 3: Thursday, December 3rd, 5:30 PM, Keyes 105 (review session: Wednesday, 7 PM, Keyes 105)
Your third exam will cover textbook chapters 10 (sections 7-8), 6, 7, 8, and 9 (sections 1-6). It will also cover lecture material the corresponds to these chapters (through Monday 11/23) and the laboratory experiments through last week (up to and including experiment #9, molecular modeling). Expect exam questions to come from all three sources. You will be provided with a periodic table. You should bring a calculator.
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Exam 3 PRACTICE (Equation sheet) Exam 3 Answer Key
Exam 2: Wednesday, October 28th, 5:30 PM, Keyes 105 (review session: Tuesday, 7 PM, Keyes 105)
Your second exam will cover textbook chapters 4, 5, 10 (sections 1-6), 16 (sections 1-2), and 20 (sections 1-2). It will also cover lecture material the corresponds to these chapters and the laboratory experiments through last week (electrolyte titrations). Expect exam questions to come from all three sources. You will be provided with a periodic table. You should bring a calculator. You are responsible for memorizing the strong acids and bases, solubility rules, oxidation number rules, redox equation balancing, the ideal gas law, etc. (among many other topics). You will be provided other necessary conversion factors, standard heats of formation (for non-reference form species), the "activity series", and some equations. The equations posted with the practice exam will be the same equations given to you for the actual exam. Assume you will have to know all others.
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Exam 2 PRACTICE (Equation sheet) Exam 2 practice - ANSWERS
Exam 1: Tuesday, October 6th, 5:30 PM, Keyes 105 (review session: Monday, 7 PM, Keyes 105)
Your first exam will cover the first three chapters of your textbook. It will also cover lecture material the corresponds to these chapters and the first two laboratory experiments. Expect exam questions to come from all three sources. You will be provided with a periodic table. You should bring a calculator. You are responsible for remembering chemical nomenclature, conversions involving the metric prefixes (milli, micro, kilo, etc.), Avagadro's number, and derived units (density, volume, etc.). You will be provided other necessary conversion factors (e.g. metric-English, temperature, etc.)
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