5.111 Principles of Chemical Science
Fall 2018
Instructors: Keith A Nelson, Matthew D Shoulders
TAs: Nile Abularrage, Nicholas Boekelheide, Suzie Y Byun, Patricia D Christie, Leo Delage-Laurin, Griffen James Desroches, Austin S Edelman, Mikaila Hoffman, Keith Edward Laurence Husted, Hyehwang (William) Kim, Noah Lewis, Soohyun Lim, Yongli Lu, Tianyu Luo, Victoria Marando, Amanuella Mengiste, Gil Namkoong, Merjema Purak, Deepsing Syangtan, Evans Christian Wralstad, Xiyun Ye, Jimin Yoon, Daiyao Zhang
Lecture: MWF12 (10-250)
Announcements
Chemistry grades on WEBSIS
Your chemistry grades should be made available via WEBSIS by December 26th. None of the chemistry staff will be able to give you your grade via email.
If you are a first year, your grade will be a “P” for pass or there will be no credit (if you did not pass the class). To find out your hidden grade, you must meet with your first year advisor during IAP. This is an opportunity to review your term with your advisor.
If you are an upperclassman, your letter grade will be seen on WEBSIS.
If you would like to see your final exam in chemistry, you will need to make an appointment with Patti Christie (patti@mit.edu) starting Tuesday January 22nd. You will have until Friday February 8th to see your exam.
Enjoy your break from MITAnnounced on 18 December 2018 3:46 p.m. by Patricia D Christie
82% of you completed the online subject evaluation. Thank You!
82% of you completed the online subject evaluation. Thank You! As per our agreement, as a reward for giving us feedback, there will be one Kinetics clicker question and one Kinetics homework question on the final exam. To help you prepare, we will be uploading the clicker questions from lectures 30-35 onto Stellar shortly. For the exam, we will choose one of these questions as the clicker question. Thanks for a great semester and good luck on Tuesday!Announced on 17 December 2018 9:39 a.m. by Matthew D Shoulders
office hours for this week and final exam instructions posted on exams page
There will be regular office hours on Monday through Wednesday in the regular places.
QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION:
There will be a review of material covered since Exam 3 on Thursday December 13th from 10:30 to 12 noon in 10-250. The TAs will present a review of the material since the third exam (Transition metals and Kinetics).
There will be extra office hours on Thursday afternoon if you have questions about material on the first three exams. The schedule is Exam 1 from 1 to 2 pm, Exam 2 from 2 to 3 pm, and Exam 3 from 3 to 4 pm. These open office hours will be in 4-153. The regular Thursday evening office hours will also be held in this room.
There will be a marathon office hours/ hosted by your 5.111 TAs on Monday December 17th (from 2 pm to 8 pm in 4-265).
Professor Shoulders (mshoulde@mit.edu) will be holding office hours on Monday December 17th from 1 to 3 pm in his office (16-573A) and Prof. Nelson (kanelson @mit.edu) will be holding office hours on Monday December 17th from 3 to 5 pm in his office ( 6-235).
Announced on 11 December 2018 5:51 a.m. by Patricia D Christie
on-line problem set due time is tonight at midnight
Announced on 07 December 2018 1:50 p.m. by Patricia D Christie
The results from 5.111 Exam 3 are ready!
The exams were given back in Recitation on Thursday November 29th, but if you did not make it to section, you can pick up your exam from the Chemistry Education office (6-205) starting Friday November 30th after 1 pm. If you think that your exam was incorrectly graded after comparing it to the answer key (which is posted on the stellar page under exam 3 related material), you need to get it back to your TA by Thursday December 6th with a note attached to the front of the exam detailing what you think was incorrectly graded. We reserve the right to look over your entire exam if you request a re-grade.
For the exam 3, here are the stats:
Average: 101 out of 125 points
Standard deviation: 16 points
Median: 106 out of 125 points
Grade groupings; (chart posted on the stellar page under exam 3 material)
All scores out of 125 points
A: 111 +
B: 96 to 110
C: 76 to 95
Cause for concern (C-) 66 to 74
F: 65 and below
At this point in the term, you have three exam scores, so you can figure out your standing in the class by looking at all of the individual grade groupings for each exam and seeing where you stand. Note: the exam 1 and 2 scores will be normalized up to 250 points and then exam 3 is already out of 125 to give you your 375 points of in term tests.
patti
Announced on 29 November 2018 3:51 p.m. by Patricia D Christie
