Hi everybody! Welcome to General Chemistry 2 Summer Semester
2020, which is probably the most exciting year to take chemistry ever!
Right?
Yeah.  As you can see I have a virtual background.
This is from "The Good Place," which if you've never watched it, it's really quite entertaining so
You probably won't have time for the next six weeks. But after you do have time, maybe check it out. It says, "Welcome!
Everything is fine!"
and I want to make this video to assure you that everything IS fine and
that you will get a wonderful experience this semester even though it's a short
summers course and even though our lecture is online.
I
am Professor Miller and
I'm gonna guide you the whole way through the six weeks.
And so the first thing to start off with is I want to answer some questions I'm getting about how things are going to work.
The first thing to understand is we are going to go to lab.
We're going to physically be in lab and there's a couple of rules that we have to institute beyond our normal safety rules
due to COVID so I want to touch base on those.
We are going to meet in lab for the first time on WEDNESDAY, July 8 and
You need to come prepared and kind of understanding how everything is going to be
set up because we are going to have to have some like highly structured
entrance and exit procedures in order to make sure that we are able to social distance. The first thing to understand is that
our College is requiring everybody to wear face masks. If you don't have a face mask, I'm going to put a table
out in the hallway for you grab a mask
as you enter the building. When you come in the building, it's a good idea to enter from the side of the building
that's next to the Academic Building. So let me show you a map:
Okay. So this is off of our MVCC website and I have flipped it over because this is how I imagine the campus looks.
The Academic Building is this building here. This is our big Gym. This is the big white square building Payne Hall.
So the best place to park is usually out in this area. It's pretty empty there. It's called the A lot.
I think this is A1 and this is A2 something like that. But you want to park back out here and
walk around.
There's a so the police--the Campus Safety officers--park right about here.
So you're gonna walk past them and take a left and walk up to the side entrance. There will be two doors
There's one here and there's one here. You want to come in the second one.
This is facing the Academic Building like the side of the Academic Building essentially. So you're gonna go in there.
I'm going to have masks waiting right before that door sort of there's this covered area.
There will be some masks waiting for you. If you don't have a mask, please take one and use it.
They are required every day we're on campus for everyone.
The
responsible restart plan from from our campus indicates that if people choose not to wear masks they cannot be on campus and they may be
And they may be escorted off campus by Public Safety.
So that is a requirement
That's beyond our normal
protective gear that we would wear in the lab--
which you're still going to need including the lab apron or a lab coat, goggles--not glasses but goggles,
and gloves. Ok, so we don't have any gloves that are extra
so please make sure you do bring some. You're  gonna start lab on the first day so you want to come prepared.
If any of these things are difficult for you to obtain,
please contact me ahead of time and I will do my best to help you.
ok, so you're going to come in and
the order in which people arrive on the first day is going to be the number you get assigned to
in the bench. So we're using both of our labs so that we have enough space to spread out and
there will be numbers on the wall in the hallway and you're going to stand at
the at the farthest number from the door, so that'll be number one if you're the first person there.
There the numbers are gonna be on the wall and they're gonna be spaced six feet apart
so, you know that it's a safe distance for you
as long as you still have masks on.
Once it's time for us to start at 11 o'clock
we will open the doors. We're going to prop them open and get out of your way.
And so what you'll do is one at a time, whoever's closest to the door,
you're going to come in and leave your backpack at the entrance.
All you need to take out is your lab textbook or the printout if you had to print it;
a
pen or a pencil and your lab notebook and then all your PPE. For the first day, you're gonna leave that in your drawer
so you don't need to bring that back and forth in the future, but
everything else should stay on the hooks at the front of the room
and
don't leave them on the floor. You can use the cubbies or the hooks, but don't just
don't crowd the walkway there. Okay, so you're gonna go to your numbered station.
So if you were standing at number one in the hallway, you're going to station number one
which will be closest to the door because you will be the last person in the room.
Okay, so that's kind of how it's going to work. We will try to guide you verbally as you're walking in--
it's going to be loud in the lab because we have to have all of our ventilation turned on.
But that's another mechanism we're using to keep everybody as safe as possible.
As you walk in, there's going to be hand sanitizer there for you to use. Please do so;
it does kill viruses. I have tested it. So it's important for you to do that
at least when you get there and when you leave, okay?
So you're gonna go to your station; the first thing we have to do is clear out our drawers
okay, so because the spring semester was interrupted
there may be chemicals in your drawer. There may be
lab safety equipment that belongs to another student.
what we're gonna do is you are going to set those items on the bench to the side, sort of out of your way, and
after lab, the technician and I will clean that all up. Okay, but that means you need to have eye glasses,
goggles on and gloves on before you open your drawer because there's probably things in there.
Once you have it all cleaned up and ready to go, make sure to wash the test tubes-- one of the main sources of
problems in this experiment is contamination. So remember from very first experiment in 141--
You have to rinse things at least three times to get them clean.
Okay soap and a scrub brush are great. But even still you're not going to get everything out unless you rinse multiple times
and that's going to apply throughout the semester. So make sure that you keep that in mind.
Okay. So the next thing that's going to happen is
The next thing that's going to happen is you're gonna be able to start the lab--that's assuming that you have watched the safety video,
taken the safety quiz at the beginning of lab (that will be a paper quiz that you're going to do--it will be on your bench
when you get there) and
that you've cleaned out your drawer and you're ready to go. In order to be ready to go
you need to read two chapters of the lab text:  Chapter Eight gives you guidance about
like what to expect, how the lab is set up, some some especially important are the pages where it defines terms like
decant, okay. So there's some reading there that you want to do and maybe take some notes about it.
For further details on that you want to check out the link in Module Four that's called
"Pre -Lab Reading."
Okay, we are also going to upload digital copies of the textbook for Chapter Eight and Chapter Nine which are the stuff they're going to
you're going to begin with.
Check that out before you come to lab on WEDNESDAY, so you're prepared to start. Okay?
The more time--this is an independent exercise in the lab--so the more time you have
to actually do the chemistry in the lab --versus like reading, or you know, doing unrelated tasks--the more time
know, doing unrelated tasks--the more time you have to actually do the chemistry, the sooner you will finish it and if you finish early--
guess what? You don't have to come to lab except for four
specific dates that are on your syllabus where we will have experiments that are not part of the qual scheme
Okay
So that's the plan for lab. We meet for lab from 11 to 2. Well 11 to 1:50 on
Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday for the next six weeks. There are three exceptions to those dates
Make sure you check those out there later in the semester.
That's because we have 18 lab days scheduled and we're only supposed to have 15 based on what a credit hour for a lab means.
So
That's how lab is going to work.
We're also going to take a break halfway through if the weather isn't too terrible, we're gonna go outside.
Normally, you know you can do that
in a normal class at any time, but in this case, we really can't do it at random intervals.
We have to kind of all leave the room at once.
Because of
space issues, you need to keep six feet away from each person.
There will be tape on the floor to let you know what areas are safe to walk in if you have to.
Let's say you need to go to the bathroom in the middle of lab or something like that.
Ideally, go to the bathroom before you get to campus that's my advice but not always possible. I know
Okay, so we are gonna take a 10-minute break
halfway through the lab--
so an hour and a half in I'm gonna ask everybody to
turn off the gas and pause what they're doing, so you should be prepared for that, right?
So if we start lab at 11 around 12:30, we're gonna have a break and I'll announce it in class,
but it may be difficult to hear.
So what we're gonna do is just kind of sort of spread out, go take a break,
take your your mask off (if you're outside by yourself) kind of thing.
But then that'll be ten minutes and then we'll come back in the building and resume lab.
So if you have any questions about how the lab is going to be structured feel free to reach out to me.
There will be two people who need to start on Chapter
Ten and if you are one of those two people,I will send you an email
individually, so make sure you're checking your email.
The reason for that is just when we get to chapter ten
Everybody needs to use a hood and we only have ten of them and we have twelve people in the class.
So if that's not you don't worry about it, I'm selecting those people intentionally and carefully because I am familiar with their lab skills.
So check your email.
Otherwise, everybody's gonna start on Chapter 9 and
kind of get a feel for how the qualitative analysis scheme goes.
It's really important that you get my signature as you make each precipitate at the end of the flowchart.
Okay, so in the Lab Four Module, I'm gonna show you what I'm talking about. Make sure you check out those videos before WEDNESDAY.
Okay. Now as far as the lecture goes, I sent out a survey a couple of weeks ago and many many many of you--in
fact everybody except for
for one person--
wanted to have synchronous class sessions, and I think we missed that from from the spring being interrupted--we missed that social aspect of school.
And I also think it's easier to learn together than by ourselves.
So the way the course is structured is you're gonna look at some reading and some videos and taking some notes
Before we meet each time and then we're gonna meet twice a week. Right now
I'm thinking we're gonna meet Monday and Friday during our normal lab time
because I think maybe that that's a good time for people.
I'm just guessing so we might need to change that. Okay, but we'll see where everybody lands on that timing.
So that means that our first synchronous
class session is going to be on Friday
Okay
The tenth actually and so you have some reading and some videos to look at beforehand for lecture
So that you know you're prepared for what we're gonna do together in class on Friday
and so I'm not gonna stand there and lecture a whole bunch what's going to happen is is maybe I introduce for five minutes and
then
You're gonna do some work and this work is graded. And so it's important for you to make time to do that throughout the week.
Okay, so we're gonna have that twice a week every week. That's only twelve sessions,
so you should plan for that. In addition to that,
I will have office hours where you can come and ask me questions less structured than our synchronous meetings.
The synchronous meetings will be recorded. So if somebody has a conflict they can watch the recording.
It's not as good as as working on it in person because you can't ask questions live, but
you can always send me an email and we also have discussion forums where you can ask people questions.
If you miss
class you need to you need to reach out to me and we need to make some arrangements for you to do the work anyway.
It's important to keep
in communication
So we can make sure that you get all the material that you need.
Not just watching the recording there's more to it than that. So make sure you reach out and tell me
what's going on. We can work with it.
So that's basically how the course is going to be structured.
I hope that answers any questions you might have. If not, the syllabus will certainly answer your questions. I have a lot more details there.
I
put as much information as I could think of there. So hopefully that's helpful to you. So go check that out and
I really look forward to the semester
I think it's gonna be a lot of fun and we can use the technology in fun ways like my cool screen and
have the ability to still meet in person and do labs for real--which is critical in chemistry--
so I think this will be a good balance of safety and
still hands-on work.
If you have any questions or concerns, you can always reach out to me. My email address is amiller@mvcc.edu
I'll see you WEDNESDAY
