5.112/ES.5112  Principles of Chemical Science

The results of the 5.112 class has been posted on WEBSIS. Since the majority of you are freshman, the letter grade will be either a P (for pass) or nothing (if you did not pass the class).
In order to find out your actual letter grade in your fall term classes:
You must go and talk to your freshman advisor in January. The 5.112 staff nor the chemistry education office will give you your ghost grade. That conversation must happen between you and your advisor. These Fall term grades are used for advising purposes and the person who advises you is your freshman advisor.

If you want to see your actual final exam grade/paper in 5.112:
you will need to make an appointment with Dr. Patti Christie starting on January 29th. You will be allowed to look at your final exam in her presence and then it will go back into the vaults.

Have a great break. (and maybe I will see you at the end of January).
patti

The Final exam for 5.112 will happen on Wednesday December 18th at 9 am at the Indoor track. There are three other final exams happening at the same place, so please plan on getting to the exam room no later than 8:45 am so that we can start the exam on time.
Couple of items:
1. Instructions for the final exam are posted at the exam page of the Stellar course site.
2. The list of exam objectives for Prof. Lippard's half of the course are also posted on the exam page
3. There will be no review sheets for the final exam topics - make them up yourself. Suggestion is to look at the exam objectives and match them up with the lecture notes and potential problems.
4. There will be office hours staffed by the 5.112 TAs on Tuesday December 17th from 2 pm to 8 pm in 56-154
5. Make sure you have multiple alarms set for Wednesday morning.
Happy studying for all of your finals, but especially for chemistry.
patti

The on-line subject course evaluations can be found at:
http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/

It is really important that you fill out and comment on the course. We use this for future course developement. If you really thougth your TA did an excellent job, please tell us why! The chemistry department gives out awards for great TAs, so you can help your TA win.

patti

Hi Everyone,

The TAs are running a review session for 5.112 from 10 AM-1 PM in Room 6-120 on this upcoming Friday, 12/13.

The format is as follows.  Each exam, 1-4, gets 45 minutes of time.  A TA will give a review mini-lecture for the first 20-25 minutes of each session, and then another TA will do Q&A for the last 20-25 minutes.  The lecturing TA will be around during the Q&A.

Schedule:
Exam 1: 10-10:45AM (TAs: Mike and Qing)
Exam 2: 10:45-11:30 (TAs: Sterling and Qing)
Exam 3: 11:30-12:15 (TAs: Megan and Eric)
Exam 4: 12:15-1 PM (TAs: Alex and Anna)

Hope to see you there.

Mike

Thank you to Ken Leidal who found a typo in question 5 of problem set #10 and told me about it:
the half cell reactions should read:

Two of the reduction half-reactions that the filling can undergo are:

3 Hg₂ ²⁺ (aq) + 4 Ag(s)  + 6 e^-→ 2 Ag₂Hg₃ (s)   E⁰ = +0.85 V

Sn⁺² (aq) + 3 Ag(s) + 2 e^- → Ag₃Sn(s)             E⁰ = -0.05 V

(the correction is in blue text). The corrected problem set has been posted.
Happy pseting.
patti