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Log of lecture topics and notes is here.

Course gradebook is here.

Exam regulations: Your are required to abide by the following:

We treat cheating with zero tolerance. The consequences of cheating are at a minimum that the score for work on which cheating occurs counts as 0, and a letter detailing the cheating is sent to the student's advisor, the dean of CAS, and placed in the student's academic file. Possible further consequences are referral to the Academic Conduct Committee, and additional penalties, including possible expulsion from the university.

Bring only your BU ID, a pen (black or blue ink only), and your Texas Instruments TI-30X IIS 2-Line Scientific Calculator (but you must not bring the calculator cover) to the exam room; no electronic devices — cell phones, laptops, tablets, etc. — are allowed.

Please do your exam in black or blue ink only. Please use only the exam paper provided. Scrap paper may not be used. Points will be deducted for answers reported to an incorrect number of significant figures and if proper units are not used throughout each calculation. A periodic table, physical constants, and major formulas will be provided as appropriate. All work must be shown to receive credit.

Here are locations, topics, and result of lecture exams, lab exams, and the final exam in this course. Note that, because this students in CH102 and CH116 have different labs, specific aspects of these labs will not be covered on lecture exams. However, topics of the labs will be part of the lecture exam material, since these topic are part of lectures and discussions.

Lecture exam 1, Tuesday, February 16 . The exam is based on all lecture, ALEKS, and discussion material through Mahaffy et al., chapters 11, 12, and 13. You may use only the Texas Instruments TI-30X IIS 2-Line Scientific Calculator, but you must not bring the calculator cover.

The exam is held in the following locations, beginning at 5:15 pm. Go to the location below according to the first letter(s) of your last name. The building abbreviations below are here and the campus map is here.

  • Last name starts with A–B, go to CAS/B12
  • Last name starts with C–F, go to PHO/206
  • Last name starts with G–M, go to CGS/129
  • Last name starts with N–Sk, go to COM/101
  • Last name starts with Sl–V, go to CGS/505
  • Last name starts with W–Z, go to SAR/102

Results: Here are the number of people in each score range. The average score for exam 1 was 54.9/100 = 54.9% (shown as the vertical line); the dashed lines mark 1 and 2 standard deviations from the average; the high score was 100/100 = 100.%; 575 people took the exam. Last updated Wednesday, February 17, 2016 07:14:33.

exam 1 results

Lecture exam 2, Monday, March 21. The exam is based on all lecture, ALEKS, and discussion material through Mahaffy et al., chapter 14, 15, and the following topics from chapter 16: sketching galvanic cells, their line notations, and balancing redox equations. Note that while the exam focuses on the preceding, it assumes the material from exam 1. You may use only the Texas Instruments TI-30X IIS 2-Line Scientific Calculator, but you must not bring the calculator cover.

The exam is held in the following locations, beginning at 5:15 pm. Go to the location below according to the first letter(s) of your last name. The building abbreviations below are here and the campus map is here.

Results: Here are the number of people in each score range. The average score for exam 2 was 58.7/100 = 58.7% (shown as the vertical line); the dashed lines mark 1 and 2 standard deviations from the average; the high score was 100/100 = 100.%; 561 people took the exam. Last updated Tuesday, March 22, 2016 08:59:48.

exam 2 results

Lecture exam 3, Monday, April 11. The exam is based on all lecture, lab, ALEKS, and discussion material through Mahaffy et al., chapter 16 and the topics from chapter 17 covered in lectures up through spontaneity of phase shanges. Note that while the exam focuses on the preceding, it assumes the material from exams 1 and 2. You may use only the Texas Instruments TI-30X IIS 2-Line Scientific Calculator, but you must not bring the calculator cover.

The exam is held in the following locations, beginning at 5:15 pm. Go to the location below according to the first letter(s) of your last name. The building abbreviations below are here and the campus map is here.

Results: Here are the number of people in each score range. The average score for exam 3 was 66.9/100 = 66.9% (shown as the vertical line); the dashed lines mark 1 and 2 standard deviations from the average; the high score was 100/100 = 100.%; 521 people took the exam. Last updated Tuesday, April 12, 2016 07:33:19.

exam 3 results

Lab exam, Monday, April 25

The exam is held in the following locations, beginning at 5:15 pm. Go to the location below according to the first letter(s) of your last name. The building abbreviations below are here and the campus map is here.

Final exam, Thursday, May 5. The final exam is based everything covered this semester. All lectures are available for review here.

The exam is held in the following locations, beginning at 6 pm. Go to the location below according to the first letter(s) of your last name. The building abbreviations below are here and the campus map is here.

Results: Here are the number of people in each score range. The average score for the final exam was 52.2/150 = 34.8% (shown as the vertical line); the dashed lines mark 1 and 2 standard deviations from the average; the high score was 130/150 = 86.7%; 521 people took the exam. Last updated Tuesday, May 10, 2016 09:33:04.

final exam results

Here is the distribution of scores for the entire course. The average score for the course was 66.6/100 = 66.6% (shown as the vertical line); the dashed lines mark 1 and 2 standard deviations from the average; the high score was 95.04/100 = 95.0%; 486 people took the exam. Last updated Tuesday, May 10, 2016 09:54:43.

overall results