2.0 Overview

Air Pollutants, Air Quality and Chemical Nomenclature

After learning more about your smartphone/portable electronic device that you may took for granted, we'll be getting into another very important part of your life - the air that you breathe. Like smartphones, we often take it for granted. Our atmosphere is a shared resource, amongst all 7 billion humans on the planet. Are there ways we can prevent or limit pollution of our shared air/atmosphere? We will also be writing chemical formulas and chemical Names. In this module, you will

• Watch lecture videos and complete assignments
  
  • 2.1 Lecture 
  • 2.2 Lecture
  • 2.3 Lecture
• Take Lecture Quiz #1
• Attend lab and complete assignments
  • 2.4 Lab: Chromatography
• Post to a Discussion
  • Air Pollution and Tragedy of the Commons

Additional Material and Extra Credit

• • Download Chapter 2 slides (pdf file) Download Chapter 2 slides (pdf file)
  • Prepare for Lecture Quiz #1 using Practice Quiz #1
  • Extra Credit assignment - Organizing Atoms and Electrons - due before Lecture Quiz #1
  • Lecture recordings

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Here are tips to help you keep track of your work:

1. In the Chem 9 Homepage, all assignments for the current week are listed. As you complete them, check off items from the "To Do" list.
2. Assignments: complete and submit "Upcoming Assignments"; "Overdue Assignments" are still open and can be submitted, but an automatic late penalty will be applied; "Past Assignments" are closed and cannot be submitted.
3. Use Calendar to check all SMC courses with Canvas assignments and/or quizzes
4. In Grades, each assignment has Status (e.g. Missing), and after grading: Score, Comments and Rubric Results