Chemistry 163B Winter 2020
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welcome
important policies
DRC
sections
handouts
exam dates
MLK Week
Homework 2 problem 14
Room Change Schleissner Office hours
Midterm 1 Review Schedule
Helpful to Printout Handouts
Onward Ho !!
Presidents Day Week
Midterm 2 Week
Campus Resources Limitations: Homework 7 Due Date Extended
Tentative Resources for Finals week
Date:
6 January 2020 :
Topic:
Welcome
Hello Chem 163B students!! The first class of Chemistry 163B, Winter 2020, will meet 6th January at 12:00PM  in Classroom Unit 1--
SEE YOU THERE!!
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Date:
6 January 2020 :
Topic:
Important Policies
The below are department and campus policies which the chemistry 163B faculty and staff strongly support and implement:
Diversity and Exclusion
Academic Integrity
CARE
Title IX
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Date:
6 January 2014 :
Topic:
DRC Accommodations
DRC is a valuable resource at UCSC. Please read the information on how to enlist DRC resources. Any student needing DRC accommodations for the midterms and final should bring the appropriate DRC forms to Professor Switkes, before Friday 17th January. 
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Date:
6 January 2020 :
Topic:
Discussion Sections
Discussions sections are VERY useful and an essential part of Chemistry 163B. The first meetings of discussion sections will be on Monday 13th January, Tuesday 14th January, and Wednesday 15th January.

WE WIIL BE USING THE TU 5:20-6:25PM SLOT AS THE WEEKLY DROP-IN TUTORIAL (open to all students). The first DROP-IN TUTORIAL will be on Tuesday 7th January (a good time for reviewing partial derivatives and getting a head-start on HW#1 Probs 1-2.)

Students who have registered for one of the sections will be given priority on enrollment. However if you haven't enrolled in a section or wish to change sections, just go to that section and ask the TA if there is sufficient room [no need to change official enrollment with registrar]. However each student should ultimately have have a regular weekly section (and TA)..
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Date:
6 January 2020  :
Topic:
Handouts
On the Chemistry 163B WWW HANDOUTS page you will find handouts for various topics in Chemistry 163B. For the parts of lectures presented in PowerPoint the illustrations for the presentation will be available in the "Handouts" WWW page (viz. handout #3). You may find it very useful to print these out before each lecture and to make taking lecture notes easier. In addition, handouts #3 and #6 will be especially useful for 7 January lecture.
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Date:
6 January 2020 :
Topic:
EXAM Dates
The midterm and final dates are 31st January, 28th Frbruary and 19th March !! Make your spring get-away travel plans knowing that you will be required to take the final exam as scheduled.
All exams are required. Illness and certain University sponsored events (e.g. research meetings, grad school interviews) are the only situations where alternative arrangements are possible.
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Date:
13 January 2020 :
Topic:
MLK week
Monday the 20thJanuary commemorates the important work of Dr. Martin Luther King and his colleagues. There will be no Chem 163B lecture or discussion groups that day. HW#2 covers important mterial and there are several support resources available to augment this week's lectures. Students with Monday discussions may utilize the Tuesday-Wednesday discussion groups that week; Chem 163B tutorial Tuesday evening; and staff office hours.
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Date:
15 January 2020 :
Topic:
HW2 Problem 14
Problem 14 (HW#2) is a TRUE and FALSE problem addressing IMPOPRTANT conceptual issues. The answers to this problem are not to be turned in but will be a topic for discussion groups and tutorials next week.
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Date:
16 January 2020 :
Topic:
Change of Room
Beginning on Tuesday, 21stJanuary Pam Schleissner's Office Hours Tuesdays 4:00-5:00 PM will be held in 114 PSB (entrance on lower level on outside of building). The regular tutorial event (Evan and Pam, Tuesdays 5:20-6:25 PM) will continue as before in Nat Sci Annex 102.
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Date:
22 January 2020 :
Topic:
Midterm 1 Review Schedule
The class handout page now includes resources to help prepare for next week's Midterm #1, Friday, 31st January.
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Date:
29 January 2020 :
Topic:
Carnot Efficiency Diagram Handouts
WARNING: Although material that will not be on Midterm #1, the class lectures 9-10 are definitely "triple esspressos" , i.e. somewhat dense!; but really important. The class handout page now includes four handouts related to deriving how the "efficiency supremacy" of the reversible Carnot machine relates to the Second Law.. These will inexorably lead us to the state function ENTROPY.
IT WILL BE VERY USEFULY TO YOU TO HAVE THESE AT HAND (printed or electronic) DURING THE LECTURES OF JANUARY 27, 29 and FEBRUARY 3.
They are
#21 Review of Calculations for Carnot Cycle
#22 Carnot Engines and Carnot Cycles in Reverse Refrigerators and Heat Pump
#24 Engines vs Carnot Heat Pump Efficiency Diagram
#25 Yes my child, it is OK for εirrev < εcarnot for sections week of 3 February
and thank you !!
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Date:
3 February 2020 :
Topic:
Onward
With Midterm #1 come (and gone?) it is important for the class to refocus on the new and very important 2ndLaw material. HW#4, due Wednesday 5th Feb. is a 3-problem set (#23 to be covered in sections) reinforcing the connections between the Clausius and Kelvin phenomenological statements of the second law and the efficiency of Carnot engines and refrigerators. HWhints#4 are now available on CANVAS.
HW#5, due Wednesday 12th February will have 11 problems (25-35) and dealing with specific aspects of S and ΔS.
ADVICE:get going on HW#5 early!!
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Date:
14 February 2020 :
Topic:
Presidents' Day Week

Monday 17th February is Presidents' Day.
NO Monday Chem163B Lecture (sob!)
NO Monday Disscussion sections (sob! sob!).
NO Tuesday Office Hours (4:00-5:00; Biophysical Society Meeting)

  The rest of the weekly schedule will be as usual except:
note:HW#5 EXTENSION Due TUESDAY 18th February by 5:00PM
                  (in CHEM163B lockbox mailroom 230-240PSB)
note:HW#6 Due FRIDAY 21st February
note: Prof. Switkes will have extra office hours on Wednesday, 19thFebruary 9:30AM-10:30PM

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Date:
24 February 2020 :
Topic:
Midterm #2 Week

Midterm #2 will be given on Friday, 28th February.
It will be essential to be in class on time (12:00 Friday) so that you will have the full 65 minutes to complete the exam. Arrangements for the DRC testing have been made through the PBSci testing.

Material to be covered on the exam and resources for review are available in handout (#46) .  
NOTE: Review session, Wednesday, 26th , 7:00PM-8:00PM, Classroom 2.

Although the material in the recent week's lectures (16-18) will not be on midterm 2, it will be 'prime' for the final (and HW#7), so it is important to keep up, up, up !!

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Date:
4 March 2020
Topic:
Homework #7 Due

Homework #7 is due Friday, 6th March. It may be turned in in class on Friday or, until 5PM on Friday, put in the Chemistry 163B homework box in the mailroom between 230-240 Physical Sciences building. The 163 homework locker is to the lower right as you enter. DO NOT PUT IN TA's mailbox.

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Date:
5 March 2020
Topic:
UPDATE: Homework #7 Due Date EXTENDED
sent in response to 5 March campus closure:

Hi (our) CHEM163B Class,

EXTENSION FOR SUBMITTING HW#7 IS NOW WEDNESDAY, 11 MARCH 5PM. in class Wednesday or in the CHEM163B HW lockbox (lower level right in mailroom between 230-240 PSB)

HW#7 and HW#8 represent very important topics for the more detailed "problems" which will appear on the 163B final. Many of the resources that we usually utilize to reinforce the lecture material have not been available this week. The TAs (who, believe it or not, really care about your learning thermo) recommend delaying the due date of HW7.

So collection of HW#7 (the last HW assignment to be collected/scored) is postponed until after next week's round of M-Tu-W sections, tutorials and office hours. But guaranteed that your life and times will be more enjoyable if YOU DON'T DELAY and finish HW7 NOW!! I will be putting the HW#8 probs 56-60 (colligative properties and electrochemistry) on the WWW tomorrow. It will not be collected but solutions will be on CANVAS before the week of our final. I will soon put a schedule of special office hours and review sessions for the week of March 15-19 on our WWW site, During these times Evan, Pam, and I will be happy to answer questions on the problems in HW#8.

take care,
gene switkes
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Date:
10 March 2020
Topic:
Final Exam: Tentative Resources
The class handouts now contain a schedule of support resources related to concluding the class lectures and preparing for the final.
  • Follow your CANVAS messages for notifications of the substitution of ZOOM conferencing for in-person sessions
  • If there is no cessation of in-person final exams, the Chemistry 163B final will be conducted as scheduled (19th March 4:00-7:00PM Classroom 1)
  • In the event that an in-person final exam is not feasible, a 'remote' exam (of some sort) will be scheduled for (19th March 4:00-7:00PM)

    • On 10 March 2020 we were notified that there would be no in-person classes and exams after 11 March.
    An update on the nature of our on-line final exam was sent to students via CANVAS and is available in the handouts.
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